South Africa's Emergency Housing Programme: A prism of urban contest

Cirolia, Liza Rose

doi:10.1080/0376835x.2014.887998

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“…Understanding the CGH case requires a wider grasp of South Africa's housing and human settlements dynamics. In various capacities, the authors have been involved in tracking Cape Town's urban development and housing experiences over the past ten years (see, for example Amin & Cirolia, 2018;Cirolia, 2014;Cirolia & Scheba, 2019). For this research project in particular, the authors reviewed relevant policies, plans, and legislation, interviewed City of Cape Town and Western Cape Government officials involved in the human settlements sector, and attended workshops related to human settlements and land development.…”

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“…For the emergency housing programme, qualification is less an issue. However, the temporary relocation areas people are sent to are often far from transport, incredibly dangerous, and poorly serviced (Cirolia, 2014;Levenson, 2018). The result is that families choose and in some cases are compelled by circumstances to fend for themselves, rather than make use of this programme.…”

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Retrofitting, repurposing and re-placing

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Ngwenya

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The vast majority of city planning literature on informal occupations has focused on how residents occupy vacant and peripheral land, developing informal structures to address their basic needs. A smaller body of work, but one with much purchase in South Africa, explores the informal occupation of existing formal structures and how residents infuse these emergent places with social and political meaning. Across this work, occupations represent a dominant mode of city-building in the Global South. Contributing to this debate on city-making and occupations, this paper departs from an unusual case of South African occupation. We explore how displaced people have occupied a multi-storey vacant hospital building situated close to Cape Town’s city centre. Using documentary photography and interviews with residents, we argue that this occupation reflects a logic of ‘retrofit city-making’. We show that, through processes of repairing, repurposing, and renovating, dwellers have retrofit an institutional building, previously designed by the state for a very different use, to meet their needs and desires. As cities become more densely built and vacant land more peripheral or scarce, the retrofit of underutilised buildings, particularly through bottom-up actions such as occupation, will become an increasingly important mode of urban development. Not only are the practices of material transformation useful to understand, so too are the ways in which occupations reflect significantly more than simply survivalist strategies, but also care and meaning-making.

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Retrofitting, repurposing and re-placing

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Ngwenya

Christianson³

et al. 2021

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“…For the emergency housing programme, qualification is less an issue. However, the temporary relocation areas people are sent to are often far from transport, AESOP / YOUNG ACADEMICS NETWORK incredibly dangerous, and poorly serviced (Cirolia, 2014;Levenson, 2018). The result is that families choose and in some cases are compelled by circumstances to fend for themselves, rather than make use of this programme.…”

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Along the concentrated efforts of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) to Open Access scholarly planning debates, the young academics network of AESOP continues to publish its international peer-reviewed open access e-journal, plaNext. plaNext provides prospective authors an opportunity to engage their ideas in international planning debates as well as make their research available to the wider planning audience. plaNext invites authors to submit original work that includes: empirical research; theoretical discussions; innovative methodologies; case studies; and, book reviews on selected books, textbooks, or specific topics dealing within planning.

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“…In Cape Town, the deep socio-spatial divide of apartheid is not only continuously reproduced through the massive lack of adequate housing opportunities, particularly for the urban poor (Cirolia, 2014). It is equally expressed through the unequal distribution of municipal infrastructure like electricity and sanitation facilities and services like solid waste collection and removal (Swilling, 2010).…”

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Worlding Cape Town by design: Encounters with creative cityness

Nkula-Wenz

2018

Environ Plan A

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Considering the ongoing global proliferation of the urban ‘creativity fix’ and its inclination to further push local governments towards entrepreneurial governance logics and market-led development imperatives, there is a sustained need to understand how the creative city paradigm is being grounded, renegotiated and put into practice in so-called ‘Southern’ cities. To analyse Cape Town’s creative city trajectory and its eventual emergence as the ‘first African World Design Capital’ in 2014, this article brings together three strands of contemporary urban scholarship. First, it utilizes the notion of ‘worlding’ to foreground the complex and multi-scalar processes that shaped Cape Town’s ‘politics of becoming’ a creative city. Second, it draws on the related and growing body of work that engages with globally mobile urban policies, their modes of circulation, adoption and transformation in different socio-political and spatial contexts. Finally, in using this relational framework to analyse Cape Town’s creative-to-design city journey, it contributes to a ‘second wave’ of scholarship on creative city-making that focuses on understanding its heterogeneous manifestations and varied local effects – that is, the diverse and situated expressions of creative cityness in the broader context of a globalizing cultural political economy. Overall the article suggests that future research has much to gain from understanding the creative city paradigm as a powerful ‘worlding device’ that produces place-based responses, which are as much ambitious and aspirational as they are fragile and necessarily incomplete.

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South Africa's Emergency Housing Programme: A prism of urban contest

Cited by 11 publications

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