Opening the cities: comparative perspectives on desegregation
Year: 1990
Type: book
Abstract: All the papers in this Issue Focus, except two, are based on work originally commissioned or done on behalf of the Private Sector Council on Urbanisation.The exceptions are the contribution by Johan Fick which is based on a paper he presented to the Carlton Conference on the Witwatersrand in July 1989, and that of Phinda Kuzwayo, based on research commissioned by the Tongaat-Hullet Group.The PSC is a forum which brings together the major urban communities and the Urban Foundation (see inside cover page).Over the last several years the Urban Foundation and the PSC have commissioned research from a wide range of academics, both locally and abroad, focused on a number of problems relating to urbanisation and how it might be managed in South Africa for the benefit of all.This special Issue Focus is one of several special issues of academic journals which are being supported and widely distributed by the Urban Foundation as part of the process of disseminating the PSC's research findings.The Urban Foundation hopes that in actively encouraging publication of selected research papers it will be sharing valuable information with the wider body of informed specialists in South Africa.The PSC project has been one to which many have contributed, and it is appropriate to thank in particular the Chairman, the individual and organisational members of the PSC, the Chairman and members of the Working Groups, the large number of academics, researchers, and consultants, those who participated in the many discussions to test the thinking that was emerging, and the members of the UF's Urbanisation Unit who managed what has been an extremely demanding process.The goal of the PSC project has been that ultimately the lives of millions of South Africans should benefit through the implementation of new policy frameworks that address South Africa's pressing development challenges.
Source: Figshare
Author: Graham Howe
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2250025256