Urban governance transformations and the first two years of the N2 Gateway project in Cape Town

Millstein, Marianne

doi:10.1353/trn.2011.0025

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“…Cornubia in Durban, the N2 Gateway project in Cape Town and Cosmo City in Johannesburg stand as three significant examples of larger-scale, integrated human settlements (Sutherland et al, 2015;Millstein, 2011). They function as a model for the national Department of Human Settlements, which proclaimed in 2014 an even more concerted effort to build dozens of other projects of this nature around the country .…”

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Introduction: The urbanisation of imagination in South Africa

Ballard¹,

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2022

South African Urban Imaginaries: Cases From Johannesburg

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Richard completed an honours degree in Geography at the University of Natal (1994) and a PhD at the University of Wales-Swansea (2012). He worked as a researcher at the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal on contract from 2000 to 2006. From 2006 to 2014, he held an academic position in the School of Development Studies, initially on Senior Lecturer level and then at Associate Professor level. He joined the Gauteng City-Region Observatory in 2015 as a Principal Researcher. He has published on the dynamics of race and urban desegregation, gated communities, social movements, participatory processes, local democracy, cross-border migrants, urban developers, megaprojects in the human settlement sector, the middle class and development, cash transfers, governance and development, and industrial restructuring.

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Introduction: The urbanisation of imagination in South Africa

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2022

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“…While the City provided the land, the TRA was constructed and managed by the N2 Gateway project. As a national pilot managed at a provincial level, the City had only a limited role and influence in the project (Millstein 2011).…”

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‘If I Had My House, I’d Feel Free’: Housing and the (Re)Productions of Citizenship in Cape Town, South Africa

Millstein¹

2020

Urban Forum

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While urban divisions are commonly emphasized in urban studies, there has been less emphasis on reproductions and contestations of divides within marginal urban spaces. This paper explores the dynamics of juxtaposed differences related to housing and urban citizenship in Delft, Cape Town. Delft is a microcosm of thirty years of official housing interventions in post-apartheid South Africa. It is also a space in which differences of urban formality and informality and of permanence and temporariness co-exist, and where housing is at the centre of community politics. This is driven by residents’ perceptions, interpretations and negotiations of differentiated housing rights and opportunities, residential categories and identities and notions of belonging. A particular manifestation of juxtaposed material and temporal differences in housing infrastructure is the construction of temporary relocation areas (TRAs). The multifaceted challenges with the TRAs in Delft illustrate the political nature of housing infrastructure as reported by (Lemanski 2019a, b) and how citizen-making is shaped in and through articulations of formality and informality, and of permanence and temporariness. This informs a politics of citizenship where the precariousness of permanent temporariness as reported by (Yiftachel 2009) for those living in the TRAs is set against those whose right to secure housing is realized, giving them recognition and permanence as ‘proper’ citizens. These dynamics may simultaneously inform rights-based claims to citizenship through collective struggles and individual actions, and localized forms of exclusion from the project of citizenship.

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“…At the same time, even in the context of these divisions and conflicts, there is evidence of inclusive or negotiated forms of governance within fragmented urban spaces (see, for example, Millstein, Miraftab, Qayyum, van Voorst, this issue), double-edged as these forms and their effects may be (Beall 2001;Jensen 2004;Millstein 2011;Patel 2016). Additionally, there is the demanding, often risky, yet also potentially redemptive, labour of autonomous agency and activism among marginalized citizens in resisting, contesting, and re-shaping such divides, disparities, and practices of exclusion, dispossession, and violence (Appadurai 2002;Caldeira 2014;Das 2011;Holston 2011;Hammar 2017; see in this issue Millstein, Miraftab, Qayyum, Shearer, van Voorst, and Yiftachel).…”

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Juxtacity: an Approach to Urban Difference, Divide, Authority, and Citizenship

Hammar

Millstein²

2020

Urban Forum

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Difference is foundational to urban governance and urban life. This article-and the special issue-focuses analytically on the juxtaposition of multiple urban differences, and what happens especially in relation to urban authority and citizenship when such differences articulate with each other. This analytical work is based on a conceptual lens we call juxtacity, which is used to examine the origins, dynamics, and effects of urban divides, where urban divides are seen as active, situated domains in themselves that provide key opportunities for understanding and theorizing complex urban dynamics. The juxtacity approach emphasizes three key elements of difference and division-relationality, articulation, and productive co-constitution-and their differentiated effects. The focus is especially on but not limited to more overt, visible structures of urban domination, but consciously counters the ways in which more common sense hierarchies of power leave out a wide range of subtler forms of inequality, domination, exclusion, and violence. These latter are crucial for understanding differences and divisions in cities around the world. The juxtacity approach counters EuroAmerican-as-universal urban theory. Including cases from Africa and Asia, the special issue employs a form of openly comparative southern urbanism that contributes to the wider project of theorizing from the south/ southeast.

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Urban governance transformations and the first two years of the N2 Gateway project in Cape Town

Cited by 7 publications

References 19 publications

Introduction: The urbanisation of imagination in South Africa

Introduction: The urbanisation of imagination in South Africa

‘If I Had My House, I’d Feel Free’: Housing and the (Re)Productions of Citizenship in Cape Town, South Africa

Juxtacity: an Approach to Urban Difference, Divide, Authority, and Citizenship

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