Townships of To-Morrow? Cosmo City and inclusive visions for post-apartheid urban futures

Comfortably cosmopolitan? How patterns of 'social cohesion' vary with crime and fear

“…informal settlements; and relatively affluent 'gated communities' built by private developers. 27 This has contributed to the fact that many neighbourhoods remain highly internally homogeneous. 28 The importance of more 'integrated', 'inclusive' or 'mixed' housing (incorporating a range of housing types, sizes and prices in close proximity) 29 has long been acknowledged in policy and law, but fiscal and water supply, water-borne sanitation and pre-paid electricity, and a large number of units are also fitted with solar geysers.…”

Mixed-Income Housing, Urban Transformation and Social Cohesion in Post-apartheid South Africa

“…In this regard, the discussion of this article focuses on the personal micro interaction scale in the urban neighborhood given that cities are considered to have problems associated with lack of social cohesion as a result of diversity of culture, class and race (Haferburg, 2013;Mugnano & Palvarini, 2013;Rosen & Walks, 2013;Landman, 2012). Therefore, to examine the manifestation of social cohesion, the five prominent dimensions or domains proposed by Forrest & Kearns (2001) will be adopted because of their multidimensionality and applicability at different spatial scales.…”

“…Mixed-income housing projects are gradually transforming the urban landscape in South Africa's cities; the projects allow greater integration and diversity in the country's urban neighbourhood (Landman, 2010;Landman, 2012;Haferburg, 2013, Klug et al, 2013. However, such housing model is not popular in the country (Onatu, 2010;Department of Human Settlement, 2014), but they seem to contribute in redressing the country's socio-spatial divisions, and have a potential to facilitate the creation of a socially cohesive society, as witnessed in different cities across the provinces of the country.…”

“…One of the major challenges in current South Africa's urban development lies in the persistent socio-spatial division of cities (Landman, 2010;Onatu, 2010;Haferburg, 2013) which was intentionally created by the apartheid spatial planning. As a result, the poor household remain on the peripheries of the cities far from their places of work and have to travel for hours to and from work daily, at great cost and are paid meagre wages (Onatu, 2010).…”

“…While on the other hand, the government is required to provide with the basic services and infrastructure like water and sanitation, and electricity services. In addition, the private developer also derives some grants and incentives from various government departments to finance the entire residential development (Haferburg, 2013).…”