Residents’ relationship with green infrastructure in Cosmo City, Johannesburg

Olumuyiwa Bayode Adegun

Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, 2018, vol. 11, issue 3, 329-346

Abstract: Scholars have expressed concerns about environmental sustainability in low-income housing development in South Africa in terms of the poor households’ relationship with, access to and benefit from natural ecosystems and green spaces. Using a qualitative research approach – discourse-based methods (semi-structured interviews, focus group discussion and transect walks), this paper shows how low-income households in Cosmo City, Johannesburg (South Africa) benefit from green infrastructure at the domestic, neighbourhood and riparian scales. The central lesson from this case is that landscape/urban design, planning and management must recognise and respond to socio-economic and socio-ecological realities and dynamics inherent in the ways low-income households relate with green infrastructure.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/17549175.2018.1470103

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