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The history of urban growth management in South Africa: tracking the origin and current status of urban edge policies in three metropolitan municipalities

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For many cities in the Global South, colonialism played a dominant role in shaping their urban form. The historical objective of planning in colonial mother-cities was dealing with poor health and living conditions, therefore a planning approach similar to that followed in post-war Britain would appear beneficial in post-colonial cities, characterized by environmental and physical infrastructure unable to cope with massive population growth. Urban growth management is a discourse born in an attempt to control the growing industrial city in the early twentieth century, and in recent years applied through instruments such as urban edges or growth boundaries to limit urban sprawl and encourage higher density urban development. In South Africa, the principles of compaction and urban growth management formed part of the post-apartheid planning agenda towards transforming the inefficient and fragmented landscape inherited from separate spatial development. Consequently, urban edges and urban growth boundaries formed key components of municipal spatial planning frameworks since the early 2000s. The purpose of this paper is to explore the origin and status of urban edges in three metropolitan municipalities in South Africa to aid in understanding of these spatial instruments in the south.

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  • Anele Horn, 2019. "The history of urban growth management in South Africa: tracking the origin and current status of urban edge policies in three metropolitan municipalities," Planning Perspectives, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(6), pages 959-977, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:rppexx:v:34:y:2019:i:6:p:959-977
    DOI: 10.1080/02665433.2018.1503089
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