Apartheid City and Beyond Urbanization and Social Change in South Africa

The Apartheid City and Beyond contains a series of original contributions on a variety of topics related to urbanization and social change in South Africa. Most are concerned with the impact of apartheid, as it affected housing, community life, settlement forms, and the servicing of the cities. These range from broad overviews of particular issues to local case studies. Far from dwelling on a best-forgotton past, these contributions help to explain how the cities of South Africa came to be as they are: the locus of people's present lives and a major constraint on new urban forms. The book also looks ahead, to a post-apartheid city, with hope tempered by realism and by the understanding that the struggle for more egalitarian cities has only just begun.Smith, David M. is the author of 'Apartheid City and Beyond Urbanization and Social Change in South Africa' with ISBN 9780415076012 and ISBN 0415076013.