Spatial trends in Gauteng
Date
2021-12-01
Authors
Ballard, Richard
Hamman, Christian
Mosiane, Ngaka
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Publisher
Gauteng City-Region Observatory
Abstract
This Occasional Paper considers six spatial trends in Gauteng. Notwithstanding intentions by the state to direct spatial transformation for the better, these trends are the physical manifestation, for better or worse, of a remarkable variety of actors responding to a wide variety of opportunities, incentives and disincentives. While it might be possible to name
post-apartheid urban ideals, these six trends underscore the disbursed nature of energies that are producing urban space, and the need to understand and work with these energies as we find them in directing spatial transformation.