Mining towns and urban sprawl in South Africa

Marais, Lochner; Denoon-Stevens, Stuart Paul; Cloete, Jan

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.04.014

Cited by 33 publications

(15 citation statements)

References 15 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…At the same time, changing industrial structures have also influenced processes of sprawl, and different trends can be observed in Europe that include (i) production shifts to other regions and countries; (ii) decentralization of employment to suburban locations; (iii) development of new forms of employment, especially in the service sector; and, finally, (iv) shrinkage and closure of traditional industries. The latter process had the effect of removing employment and weakening the latent linkage between inner urban residential and workplaces areas, stimulating the outward migration of workers to suburban areas [1,14,32,35].…”

Section: The Ignored Divide? An Outlook On Sprawl and Population Trends In Europementioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a complex, multi-dimensional phenomenon difficult to investigate [8], sprawl has attracting the interest of multi-disciplinary research when defining nature, dynamics, and implications of low-density urbanization on both fringe and rural environments [9][10][11][12]. Despite being one of the most powerful engine of urban growth, short-term population dynamics and long-term demographic change were occasionally investigated and contextualized to specific socioeconomic environments with a multidisciplinary perspective, e.g., offering an integrated ecological-economic view of urban sprawl [13][14][15].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Toward a New Urban Cycle? A Closer Look to Sprawl, Demographic Transitions and the Environment in Europe

Smiraglia

Salvati

Egidi

et al. 2021

Land

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Urban growth is a largely debated issue in social science. Specific forms of metropolitan expansion—including sprawl—involve multiple and fascinating research dimensions, making mixed (quali-quantitative) analysis of this phenomenon particularly complex and challenging at the same time. Urban sprawl has attracting the attention of multidisciplinary studies defining nature, dynamics, and consequences that dispersed low-density settlements are having on biophysical and socioeconomic contexts worldwide. The present commentary provides a brief overview on nature and implications of the latent relationship between sprawl, demographic dynamics, and background socio-environmental contexts with special focus on Europe. Empirical evidence supports the idea that spatial planning should cope more effectively with the increasing environmental and socioeconomic exposure of European regions to sprawl and demographic transitions, being progressively far away from a traditional urban cycle with sequential waves of urbanization, suburbanization, counter-urbanization, and re-urbanization. Growing socio-ecological vulnerability of metropolitan regions was evaluated based on a literature review demonstrating how a better comprehension of the intimate linkage between long-term demographic dynamics and urban cycles is necessary to inform fine-tuned policies controlling sprawl and promoting a sustainable management of peri-urban land.

show abstract

Section: The Ignored Divide? An Outlook On Sprawl and Population Trends In Europementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward a New Urban Cycle? A Closer Look to Sprawl, Demographic Transitions and the Environment in Europe

Smiraglia

Salvati

Egidi

et al. 2021

Land

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Urban sprawl continues to manifest itself through market-driven housing, housing provision subsidized by government and the proliferation of informal settlements (Marais et al, 2020). To analyse, measure and compare the extent of urban sprawl among municipalities in the Western Cape over time, Horn and Van Eeden (2017) proposed an urban sprawl index that computes the difference between the rate of formal residential land use expansion and the population growth rate.…”

Section: Sprawlmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Sprawl and Land Cover in Post-apartheid Johannesburg and the Gauteng City-Region, 1990–2018

Katumba

Everatt

2021

Environment and Urbanization ASIA

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Johannesburg and the broader Gauteng City-Region in which it is located are considered to be the economic powerhouse of South Africa. This has led to massive population growth in the region, as well as severe inequality. Given South Africa’s history of racially excluding black South Africans from urban areas, ongoing research in this area has to analyse land cover and define ‘sprawl’ in a context where the technical language has politically loaded overtones. This article tries to understand the scale of informality within a broader examination of urbanization and sprawl. It concludes that in the absence of a formally adopted urban edge and under massive pressure from population growth (natural and via migration), formal dwellings (residential and economic) have grown unchecked, and informality is now growing at high speed and also largely without regulation or control. With no apparent political will to stop urban sprawl, both informal and formal covers are steadily pushing towards provincial borders, while densifying in Johannesburg in particular.

show abstract

“…This situation is not singular because housing development was a top priority for the state or the mining company in the case of new mines or mine expansion, to respond to the urgent need of housing the miners [39]. However, this approach to create "open" mining towns and to use homeownership as a tenure option for housing programs is a failure because it does not consider the long-term implications of both mining and town development [40].…”

Section: Housingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is There Sustainable Development after Mining? A Case Study of Three Mining Areas in the Apuseni Region (Romania)

Botezan

Constantin²,

Meltzer

et al. 2020

Sustainability

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The cessation or downsizing of mining activities induced complex challenges for entire regions in Romania, leading to depopulation, poverty, and pollution. Resource-dependency locked these regions in a mono-industry setting where it was difficult for new development paths to emerge. This paper presents a historical overview of a well-known Romanian mining region and identifies promising recovery opportunities that could shift the trajectory of its mining communities towards new sustainable paths. The research was based on official statistical data for the period 1965/1966–2018, complemented by qualitative data extracted from 39 semi-structured interviews with residents from the study area. The results revealed that the concentration of employment in the mining sector, together with other concurring factors, made it difficult for the communities to find sustainable ways of development while, at the same time, highlighting some possible revitalization and recovery opportunities. The findings contribute to a better understanding of mining communities, which will support the creation of tailored policies and planning strategies aimed towards their sustainable redevelopment.

show abstract

Mining towns and urban sprawl in South Africa

Cited by 33 publications

References 15 publications

Toward a New Urban Cycle? A Closer Look to Sprawl, Demographic Transitions and the Environment in Europe

Toward a New Urban Cycle? A Closer Look to Sprawl, Demographic Transitions and the Environment in Europe

Urban Sprawl and Land Cover in Post-apartheid Johannesburg and the Gauteng City-Region, 1990–2018

Is There Sustainable Development after Mining? A Case Study of Three Mining Areas in the Apuseni Region (Romania)

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About