Post-Apartheid National Spatial Development Planning in South Africa – A Brief History
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https://doi.org/10.2478/s10105-010-0010-8Keywords:
national spatial development planning, National Spatial Development Perspective, regional development, post-apartheid South AfricaAbstract
Since coming to power in 1994 successive ANC-governments have engaged in a series of attempts at national spatial development planning in South Africa. These engagements have received scant treatment in the planning literature. In this paper a broad overview of these initiatives is provided, with an emphasis on the different instruments; the context in which they were developed; the institutions that were proposed and/or created in support of the instruments; and the extent to which the instruments were implemented and what their levels of success were. The paper concludes with a call for comparative research, including South Africa, in this arena.
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