Originally published in 1982, this book covers the unique spatial structure of society which was South Africa under apartheid. It brings together a cohesive set of research-based contributions to the understanding of this system which was without contemporary parallels. The book considers issues such as industrial location and migrant labour at a national scale. The case studies, which are fully illustrated, deal with problems associated with work and housing for blacks, set in the 3 major metropolitan areas of Cape Town, the Witwatersrand and Durban. Of particular importance is the emphasis given to so-called spontaneous (or squatter) settlement and to informal-sector work for blacks in the emerging apartheid city something which links directly with central issues of development studies.
Originally published in 1982, this book covers the unique spatial structure of society which was South Africa under apartheid. It brings together a cohesive set of research-based contributions to the understanding of this system which was without contemporary parallels.
Introduction David M. Smith
1. The Evolution of Unequal Development
Within South Africa: An Overview John Browett
2. Urbanization and Social
Change Under Apartheid: Some Recent Developments David M. Smith
3. Apartheid,
Decentralization and Spatial Industrial Change Christian M. Rogerson
4.
Migrant Labour and Frontier Commuters: Reorganizing South Africas Black
Labour Supply Anthony Lemon
5. Urbanization in the Homelands P. Smit, J. J.
Oliver and J. J Booysen
6. The Informal Sector of the Apartheid City: The
Pavement People of Johannesburg K.S.O. Beavon and C.M. Rogerson
7.
Urbanization, Unemployment and Petty Commodity Production and Trading:
Comparative Cases in Cape Town D. Dewar and V. Watson
8. Informal Housing and
Informal Employment: Case Studies in the Durban Metropolitan Region Gavin
Maasdorp
9. Segregation and Interpersonal Relationships: A Case Study of
Domestic Service in Durban
10. Council Housing for Low-Income Indian Families
in Durban: Objectives, Strategies and Effects Peter Corbett
11. Government
Dispensation, Capitalist Imperative or Liberal Philanthropy? Responses to the
Black housing crisis in South Africa J. P. Lea
12. The Geography of Urban
Social Control: Group Areas and the 1976 and 1980 Civil Unrest in Cape Town
John Western.
David M. Smith was Emeritus Professor of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London.
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