Social Justice, Integrated Development Planning and Post-apartheid Urban Reconstruction

Gustav Visser
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Gustav Visser: Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050, South Africa, 017gus@cosmos.wits.ac.za.

Urban Studies, 2001, vol. 38, issue 10, 1673-1699

Abstract: The paper focuses on the intersection between South African urban reconstruction and the development of social justice debates in urban geography. Drawing on a case study located in the Cape Metropolitan Region of South Africa, this investigation illustrates how decision-makers have implemented a planning strategy referred to as integrated development planning (IDP) to aid post- apartheid urban reconstruction. In so doing, the paper shows how this mechanism draws upon the spatial imagination as a method of (re)directing the development of this city. Moreover, the case study demonstrates how an imagined urban space, expressed in the planning system of the IDP, functions as a device by which shared understandings of social justice are enabled. Finally, the paper reflects on how these findings might (re)direct the theoretical development of the social justice concept in geographical and urban planning debates.

Date: 2001
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