Achieving urban spatial justice in South Africa: Context, reality and the Integrated Urban Development Framework (IUDF)
Michael Sutcliffe, Sue Bannister
By 2050 eight in ten South Africans will live in urban areas. Colonialism and the apartheid state have created a highly fragmented and unequal urban system. South Africa’s National Development Plan (NDP), argues that sustainable development depends on the particular local context in which the settlement development is taking place, including the need for spatial justice, spatial sustainability, spatial resilience, spatial quality and spatial efficiency. This paper describes the methodology used to both define the South African urban system as a whole and also the fragmentation within the urban areas themselves, as part of the process of defining the Integrated Urban Development Framework in South Africa. It calls for a measured and differentiated approach to the New Urban Agenda.
Event: Land Governance in an Interconnected World_Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty_2018
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