The identification of towns in the Free State for an urban upgrading and development programme: A proposed method for consideration

Skip Krige, Michael Schur and Gerd Sippel

Development Southern Africa, 1998, vol. 15, issue 3, 361-377

Abstract: This article describes how small towns in the Free State were assessed for a German-South African urban upgrading and development programme. The assessment first determined where the programme would have a significant impact on the recipient community and, secondly, where it would have a high probability of success. Two criteria were used: quantitative (settlement types, demographic and economic trends, financial and management capacity and performance, and access to services and housing) and qualitative (level of community-based participation in existing projects, the spirit of the place, economic potential and delivery record in terms of projects). These criteria reduced the number of appropriate towns to eight. A provincial steering committee (representing the political dimension) was appointed to incorporate the towns into the programme. They are representative of towns across the province, as well as a variety of settlement types. This method can be considered on a provincial or regional basis elsewhere for evaluating and ranking small towns for development support.

Date: 1998
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