Addressing South Africa’s urban challenges

South Africa is among the most urbanized countries in Africa and has an urban population that is growing rapidly. The country’s urban challenges sometimes are considered as distinctive and separate to those of rest of Africa because of the apartheid legacy of a fragmented and racially splintered urb...

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Published in:Urbani izziv 2014, Vol.25 (Supp), p.S1-S4
Main Authors: Rogerson, Jayne M, Kotze, Nico, Rogerson, Christian M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Apartheid
Cities
Contemporary urbanization
Economic development
Editorial
International cooperation
Population growth
Social Sciences
Socioeconomics
South Africa
Sustainable cities
Sustainable global economy
Sustainable urbanism
Urban Areas
urban challenges
Urban development
Urban economics
Urban Population
Urban populations
Urbanization
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Summary:South Africa is among the most urbanized countries in Africa and has an urban population that is growing rapidly. The country’s urban challenges sometimes are considered as distinctive and separate to those of rest of Africa because of the apartheid legacy of a fragmented and racially splintered urban landscape. Nevertheless, 20 years after democratic transition the issues that confront its cities increasingly exhibit a set of sustainability challenges that typify those problems of many other fast-growing African urban areas. This introduction locates the collection of articles as a contribution to the expanding corpus of scholarship on urban South Africa.
ISSN:0353-6483
1855-8399
1855-8399
DOI:10.5379/urbani-izziv-en-2014-25-supplement-000