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The Changing Space Economy of City-Regions

The Gauteng City-Region, South Africa

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Editors:
  1. Koech Cheruiyot

    1. University of the Witwatersrand, Gauteng City-Region Observatory, a partnership between the University of Johannesburg, The University of the Witwatersrand, the Gauteng Provincial Government and organized local government, Johannesburg, South Africa

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  • Delivers the first comprehensive reading material on space economy issues in the Gauteng city-region
  • Presents the dualism that exists in national and regional economies and formulation of policies intended to cure them
  • Offers quantitative methods to unravel the spatial patterns of economic life enabling readers to be aware of the methods that can be used to understand regional development processes
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL)

Part of the book sub series: Urban Perspectives from the Global South (URPGS)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. City-Regions and Their Changing Space Economies

    • Koech Cheruiyot
    Pages 1-24

  3. The Economic Drivers of Urban Change in the Gauteng City-Region: Past, Present, and Future

    • Mfaniseni F. Sihlongonyane
    Pages 25-62

  4. Assessing the Gauteng City-Region’s Global Presence and Positioning Through Current Global-City Measures

    • Koech Cheruiyot, Anisa Desai, Ezekiel Lengaram
    Pages 63-92

  5. Importance of Industrial Clusters and Inter-industry Linkages for Regional Policy in the Gauteng City-Region

    • Rainer vom Hofe, Koech Cheruiyot
    Pages 93-129

  6. The Evolution of Manufacturing in the Gauteng City-Region: From De-Industrialization to Re-Industrialization?

    • Sam Ashman, Susan Newman
    Pages 131-156

  7. Unpacking the Changing Economic Geography of Gauteng’s Tertiary Sector

    • Christian M. Rogerson
    Pages 157-184

  8. Locating the Informal Sector in the Gauteng City-Region and Beyond

    • Sally Peberdy
    Pages 185-211

  9. Testing Economic Growth Convergence and Its Policy Implications in the Gauteng City-Region

    • Koech Cheruiyot, Darlington Mushongera
    Pages 213-239

  10. Revitalizing Gauteng City-Region Township Economies Through Value Chain Development

    • Phindile Ngwenya, Precious Zikhali
    Pages 241-273

  11. Dualisms in the Gauteng City-Region: Summary and Implications

    • Koech Cheruiyot
    Pages 275-285
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About this book

This book addresses the South African Space Economy and its stark disparities and dualisms through an assessment of the Gauteng City-Region – the largest economic agglomeration in the country and on a continent bedevilled by a myriad of development challenges. The book’s focus on understanding the overall character of Gauteng City-Region’s Space Economy – through data mining/analysis and mapping – comprehensively supplements the Space Economy literature on the region. It covers the disparities exacerbated by an overlay of apartheid planning ideology and top-down regional development based on selective encouragement of manufacturing investments in growth points or poles and how implementation of past policies intended to cure these disparities have yielded mixed results. This book further offers the Gauteng City-Region as a microcosm of the national economy in the form of evident significant placed-based variations in the intensity and character of economic structure that on the one hand enjoys massive agglomeration economies, while on the other, has high levels of poverty and large numbers of people living below the Minimum Living Level.  This book should appeal to urban studies specialists, economists and development studies researchers in the Global South.


Editors and Affiliations

  • University of the Witwatersrand, Gauteng City-Region Observatory, a partnership between the University of Johannesburg, The University of the Witwatersrand, the Gauteng Provincial Government and organized local government, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Koech Cheruiyot

About the editor

Dr. Cheruiyot is a Senior Researcher at the Gauteng City-Region Observatory. He holds a PhD in Regional Development Planning from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA as well as post-graduate training in urban and regional planning and human settlements and bachelor’s degree in economics. With over 15 years of working in the field of urban and regional development planning both as a civil servant and a researcher, he has research interests in development (particularly economic development, economic geography or space economics, urban development, regional development and economics, poverty and inequality) and the application of a wide range of quantitative research methods (including cluster analysis, location analysis, spatial econometrics and spatial statistics) to model economic development issues and urban spatial change. Dr. Cheruiyot also teaches quantitative methods and econometrics in the School of Construction Economics and Management at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Changing Space Economy of City-Regions

  • Book Subtitle: The Gauteng City-Region, South Africa

  • Editors: Koech Cheruiyot

  • Series Title: GeoJournal Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67483-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-67482-7Published: 10 November 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88437-0Published: 25 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-67483-4Published: 30 October 2017

  • Series ISSN: 0924-5499

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0072

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 285

  • Number of Illustrations: 74 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Human Geography, Economic Geography, Development Economics, Regional/Spatial Science

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