There is a robust international debate about how best to tackle spatial inequalities within
nations and regions. The paper discusses three contrasting approaches: spatial …

Planning and Transformation provides a comprehensive view of planning under political
transition in South Africa, offering an accessible resource for both students and researchers …

The issue of food security is strikingly absent from current debates about the relationship
between migration and development. The current international food security agenda …

Against a backdrop of definitions and conceptual clarifications of the term urban policy,
including its expression in the develo** world—and Africa, in particular—this paper …

The paper provides an overview of urbanization patterns and trends in the current era in
South Africa, focusing in particular on the key dynamics and driving forces underlying …

The disruption of family life is one of the important legacies of South Africa's colonial and
apartheid history. Families were undermined by deliberate strategies implemented through …

As the end of the 20 th century grows nearer, South Africans find themselves entering the
post-Mandela era. 1 Five years after the first democratic government was elected in South …

Democracy and Delivery: Urban Policy in South Africa tells the story of urban policy and its
formulation in South Africa. As such, it provides an important resource for present and future …

Social-ecological (SE) traps refer to persistent mismatches between the responses of
people, or organisms, and their social and ecological conditions that are undesirable from a …

Existing knowledge about historical patterns of black internal migration in South Africa is
incomplete, primarily because of the lack of good life course studies as well as the apartheid …