The fragmented city.
Date
1997
Authors
Wolters, M. J.
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Abstract
Johannesburg, like many other major cities in Third World nations is facing major
urban influx is causing extreme pressure on the existing social and economic fabric. This in tum has
resulted in fragmentation on a number of different levels - social, political, economic and physical.
The spatial organisation of the city appears to be incapable of coping with this fragmentation. The
means or method needs to be discovered where the fragmented elements of the city can be reunited
and absorbed into the city system.
This dissertation seeks to discover how the dichonomy of first world settlement and third world
settlement can be resolved using tools, either yet to be discovered. or already inherently within the
system. It seeks to understand the relatloashlp between the existing urban economy and social
structures and the new informal economy and social structures that re emerging. What is the
common element that binds these diverse aspects toqerher into something that creates a new urban
core.
While the third world cities are made up of remarkably diverse ex-colonial and neo-colonial
populations, there is a certain commonality that binds them all together. The commonality that binds. (Abbreviation abstract)
Description
A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Architecture
University of the Witwatersrand in fulfillment of the
requirements for the Degree of Masters in Urban Design.