Law, spatial planning & the making of South African cities

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dc.contributor.authorMakoni, Eric Nyembezi
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-28T14:16:21Z
dc.date.available2021-01-28T14:16:21Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionDissertation submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for a degree Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, January 2020en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation examines the relation between law and spatial planning in the making of contemporary South African cities. Using Johannesburg as unit of analysis, the dissertation demonstrates how, throughout history, law and spatial planning have been appropriated to realise specific political and ideological intentions. It is shown that, from the founding of contemporary South African cities,various legal and planning instruments were at times deployed in the service of creating racially fragmented and unjust cities. This hegemonic colonial project of legalised, racial spatial planning was further crystalised during the apartheid era from 1948 right through to the late 1970s. Interestingly, thepost-apartheid state has similarly turned to the twin-pillars of law and spatial planning as part of its political project of reconstituting the urban political while also striving for the realisation of spatial justice. Given the complicity of law and planning in the makingof unjust colonial/apartheid cities, this dissertation asks whether,and to what extentthe law and planning have managed to assume new democratic roles of creating ‘post-colonial’ South African cities defined by spatial justice and socio-economic inclusivity, especially against a political background characterised by the intensification of global capitalism, and its related neoliberal packages. Drawing on literature pertaining to law’s spatial turn as well as decolonial theory, the dissertation employs the notion of lawscapeto philosophically anchor theinvestigation. The focus is therefore both on how the law (including, in the post-apartheid lawscape, rights-based litigation) influences the production of social space, and howeveryday socio-spatial, political and ideological forces simultaneously shape the form and application of law.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianCK2021en_ZA
dc.facultyFaculty of Commerce, Law and Managementen_ZA
dc.format.extentOnline resource (246 leaves)
dc.identifier.citationMakoni, Eric Nyembezi (2020) Law, spitial planning and the making of South African cities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, <http://hdl.handle.net/10539/30405>
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/30405
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.phd.titlePhDen_ZA
dc.schoolSchool of Lawen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshLand use--Law and legislation
dc.subject.lcshLand use--Government policy
dc.subject.lcshRegional planning
dc.titleLaw, spatial planning & the making of South African citiesen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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