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Cape Town: Living Closer, Yet, Somehow Further Apart

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South African Urban Change Three Decades After Apartheid

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The chapter revisits Cook’s envisioned future of Cape Town in the early 1990s. It furnishes an update on those reflections. The investigation first provides insight into spatial planning frameworks that aim to manage a number of processes pertinent to Cook’s investigation, demographic changes, noting that racial ratios and the number of citizens have changed significantly. Thereafter, issues focused on the economic base of the city, one that remains, although in different guises, a service economy, comes into view. Attention then turns to changing housing trends that are fundamentally different from three decades ago. The spatial scope of the investigation includes new settlements that did not form part of Cape Town until recently and their spatial relationship to more established neighbourhoods in the city is reviewed.

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Visser, G., Horn, A. (2021). Cape Town: Living Closer, Yet, Somehow Further Apart. In: Lemon, A., Donaldson, R., Visser, G. (eds) South African Urban Change Three Decades After Apartheid. GeoJournal Library(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73073-4_2

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