Research Catalog

Title

Democracy and delivery : urban policy in South Africa / edited by Udesh Pillay, Richard Tomlinson & Jacques du Toit.

Publication

Cape Town : HSRC Press, 2006.

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Additional Authors

• Pillay, Udesh.
• Tomlinson, Richard, 1952-
• Du Toit, Jacques.

Description

x, 334 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

Democracy and Delivery: Urban Policy in South Africa tells the story of urban policy and its formulation in South Africa. As such, it provides an important resource for present and future urban policy processes. In a series of essays written by leading academics and practitioners, Democracy and Delivery documents and assesses the formulation, evolution and implementation of urban policy in South Africa during the first ten years of democracy. The contributors describe the creation of democratic local governments from the time of the 1976 Soweto uprising and the intense township struggles of the 1980s, the formulation of 'developmental' planning and financial frameworks, and the delivery of housing and services by the new democratic order. They examine the policy formulation processes and what underlay these, debate the role of research and the influence of international development agencies, and assess successes and failures in policy implementation. Looking to the future, the contributors make suggestions based on experience with implementation and changing political priorities. Academics, students, policy-makers and government officials, as well as an informed public, will find this book an enlightening read.

Subject

• Urban policy > South Africa
• Urbanization > South Africa
• Municipal government > South Africa
• Community development, Urban > South Africa

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Udesh Pillay, Richard Tomlinson and Jacques du Toit -- Urbanisation and the future urban agenda in South Africa / Doreen Atkinson and Lochner Marais -- Urban spatial policy / Alison Todes -- Local government boundary reorganisation / Robert Cameron -- Reflections on the design of a post-apartheid system of (urban) local government / Mirjam van Donk and Edgar Pieterse -- Local government in South Africa's larger cities / Alan Mabin -- The development of policy on the financing of municipalities / Philip van Ryneveld -- Integrated development plans and Third Way politics / Philip Harrison -- The evolution of local economic development in South Africa / Etienne Nel and Lynelle John -- Tourism policy, local economic development and South African cities / Christian M. Rogerson -- Reaching the poor? : an analysis of the influences on the evolution of South Africa's housing programme / Sarah Charlton and Caroline Kihato -- Free basic services : the evolution and impact of free basic water policy in South Africa / Tim Mosdell -- Conclusion / Udesh Pillay and Richard Tomlinson.

ISBN

0796921563

LCCN

^^2006496384

OCLC

71412273

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library