Overview
- Incorporates massive restructuring of urban spaces with the intention of ameliorating negativities arising out of the colonial and apartheid governments
- Presents timely topic as rising inequality and resulting incidents of crime and violence call for higher attention to inclusion in urban areas
- Shows that Southern Africa experiences remain undocumented, despite the claim that the urban policies are key to inclusive urban expansion
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Laying the Foundation for Inclusive Cities
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Interrogating Inclusivity of Cities in Selected Countries
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Recounting Challenges of Inclusivity in South African Cities
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About this book
This book’s point of departure rests on the premises that dimensions of the mainstream inclusive city discourse fail to capture in detail vulnerable clusters of society (being women, children, and the aging), the minority clusters (i.e., the blind, the disabled), and migrants. In addition, it fails to recognize the increase of spatial inequality driven by racial and class differences—a factor that has seen an increase in community violence and protests. The focus on spatial inequality has, for a long time, blind-folded urban authorities to ignore exclusion arising out of the same environments created with a notion of creating inclusivity. Hence this book “collapses spatial walls” as it seeks to uncover the true perspectives of inclusivity in cities beyond spatial dimensions but within social realms. The depth of this book’s enquiry rests on its critical investigation of Southern African cities’ through historical epochs of apartheid and colonialism in the region.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Inclusivity in Southern Africa
Editors: Hangwelani H. Magidimisha-Chipungu, Lovemore Chipungu
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81511-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81510-3Published: 29 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81513-4Published: 30 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-81511-0Published: 28 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 451
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 80 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geography, general, Public Policy, Cities, Countries, Regions