Ebook: The Apartheid City and Beyond: Urbanization and Social Change in South Africa

The Apartheid City and Beyond contains a series of original contributions on apartheid in the context of housing, community life, settlement forms, and the servicing of the cities. Ranging from broad overviews of particular issues to local case studies, the contributors explain how the cities of South Africa came to be the locus of people's present lives and a major constraint on urban forms. Looking ahead to the post-apartheid city, they show that if the cities of South Africa are to serve the people as a whole, the accelerating process of urbanization must be brought under control and harnessed to a new purpose.