Rapid urbanisation to non-metropolitan urban South Africa: A call for Accrediting credible ‘informal’ life-enhancing responses and institutions

《Rapid urbanisation to non-metropolitan urban South Africa: A call for Accrediting credible ‘informal’ life-enhancing responses and institutions》

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关键字: Credibility thesis;Non-metropolitan urban growth;Spatial planning;Housing

作者单位: Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Pretoria, South Africa;Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa;Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Pretoria, South Africa;Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa

摘要: Despite the growth of, and movement of large numbers of people to rapidly expanding non-metropolitan urban centres in predominantly rural areas, this phenomenon and its accompanying vulnerabilities, multiple informalities and credible institution-formation have not received much research interest. In this paper, the focus is placed on such a town in what is regarded as ‘rural South Africa’. Based on credibility theory the paper explores (1) the disjuncture between the city-scale challenges on the ground and the official recognition of these challenges, and (2) the often overlooked, yet dense and multiple web of credible informal institutions that play a crucial role in enabling livelihoods and facilitating access to services within such spaces, as opposed to the largely ineffective formal planning and governance responses to these pressing realities.