The Unavoidable Continuities of the City

Beauregard, Robert A.; Haila, Anne

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“…The process of buffer zone development produces communities that are immediately linked to both the core and periphery. These communities are not static, nor are urban spatial hierarchies more generally (Beauregard and Haila 2000). What paths will these communities take over time?…”

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From Resources to Power: The State and Spatial Change in Post-apartheid Durban, South Africa

Schensul¹

2008

St Comp Int Dev

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After apartheid, local government in Durban, South Africa, attempted to break down the barriers of the apartheid city through a massive program of public investment, intended to close the economic and infrastructure gaps between race groups. The results of this program varied widely. In core areas, growth coalitions were able to influence state infrastructure development, limiting its transformative impact. In peripheral areas, wide ranging infrastructural needs, coupled with pressure on the state to deliver services quickly, resulted in rushed, substandard construction. In buffer zones, previously undeveloped areas between the core and the periphery that under apartheid had separated race groups, the state was able to construct public housing for poor Africans near both economic activity and white and Indian residential areas, an outcome previously unseen in Durban's history. I argue that the state's infrastructural power, varying in different parts of the city relative to the power of other actors in society, explains these results. Geocoded census and municipal infrastructure data from 1996 and 2001, together with qualitative data from key informant interviews and workshops, form the empirical basis of this article.

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From Resources to Power: The State and Spatial Change in Post-apartheid Durban, South Africa

Schensul¹

2008

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“…Strategies in the name of permanent possibility Whilst the spatial form of the city is never historically complete and also contains 'unavoidable continuities' (Beauregard and Haila, 2000), a difference from these earlier accounts to those in this special edition is that they are characterised by an increase in the intensity of oscillations between continuity and discontinuity. The articles frame the city as a site of dynamic encounters between cooperation and competition, with the former providing the basis of solidarity among social groups.…”

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confidence: 93%

Urban crisis: Bonfire of vanities to find opportunities in the ashes

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2017

Urban Studies

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This article argues that a critical urban studies needs to examine the reproduction of crisis in cities not just at a macro level, but also in the day-to-day activities in urban administrations. Time and power are implicated in frenetic activities in which officials find themselves beleaguered by the pace of change and the opportunities for learning then evaporate. An urban imaginary, based on permanent possibilities for the future, enables a culture of expertise to emerge that is at odds with democracy through a separation between the forms of justification it deploys and the contexts of its application. That process enables a spectator view of the urban that is fed by an antiseptic scientism in which models and ideas for urban development circulate without sensitivity to context. The article calls for a movement away from these narrowly constituted forms of knowledge production and reception to provide a responsible politics through a more open and inclusive approach to urban development.

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“…Actions, whether public or private, that cross spatial scales and jurisdictional boundaries are left as externalities. Most importantly, local planners are vulnerable to private-sector actors who operate in multiple places, promise growth and prosperity, and have independent access to political leaders (Beauregard & Haila, 2000;Fainstein, 2001). Local planners are limited by the high value placed on individual property rights, even as they encroach on them through zoning, environmental regulations, eminent domain, and transportation planning.…”

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confidence: 99%