The Changing Space Economy Of City-regions: The Gauteng City-region, South Africa (geojournal Library)
by Koech Cheruiyot /
2017 / English / PDF
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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.
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.
