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- Title
THE INFORMAL SETTLEMENT PHOLA PARK IN THE CONTEXT OF CAPE TOWN'S PLANS FOR SOCIO-SPATIAL INTEGRATION.
- Authors
Haferburg, Christoph
- Abstract
This paper focuses on Cape Town's planning strategy for the spatial and economic integration of the South East sector, where the majority of its informal settlements are located, with the privileged sectors of the city. It discusses the Wetton-Lansdowne Corridor plan (City of Cape Town, 1998; 1999) within the Metropolitan Spatial Development Framework (MSDF) (Cape Metropolitan Council, 1996; 1999), reflecting the evolving dynamics of the new post-apartheid planning spirit, which oscillates between a revamped interventionist approach and the meta-tale of private sector driven development. Critiques of this plan are emerging from a number of angles (Watson 2000; Watson, 2001). At the same time it has been argued that integration is happening, not through planned approaches, but through their contestation, by means of land invasions and the emergence and persistence of informal settlements (see Saff, 1996; Lohnert, 1998). In this light, it is relevant to examine how the planning initiatives for integration deal with the reality of informal settlements. This, the paper aims to do through the example of the South East sector of Cape Town. The paper does not present an overview of informal settlements in this sector, but rather focuses in detail on the living conditions in one of the settlements, Phola Park, which is strategically located within the planned Wetton-Lansdowne development corridor. The settlement occupies vacant land between a former "coloured" and "black African" township (Manenberg and Gugulethu respectively), at the intersection of a railway line and Lansdowne Road. As part of a bigger research project at the University of Hamburg, which focuses on socio-spatial change in post-apartheid Cape Town, a household survey was conducted in September 2000. In Phola Park we conducted approximately 40 structured interviews with residents, and gained some insight in the socio-economic situation of the community. The survey data of Phola Park contradicts some of...
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; CAPE Town (South Africa); LAND use; URBAN planning; HUMAN settlements
- Publication
Urban Forum, 2002, Vol 13, Issue 2, p26
- ISSN
1015-3802
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12132-002-0012-3