Front Cover -- Title page -- Imprint page -- Table of contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Introduction: Confronting Fragementation -- The challenge of urban fragmentation in a democratising society -- Themes and structure of the book -- Part A: The Challenge of Urban Fragmentation -- Chapter 1: Fragmentation and Globalisation as the New Meta-Narrative -- Globalisation: The new meta-narrative -- Urban fragmentation -- Responses to fragmentation -- Partnerships -- Networks and social capital -- Policy coherence -- Spatial integration and the compact city approach -- Integration through communicative rationality -- Integration from below -- In the final event, does fragmentation really matter? -- References -- Chapter 2: Urban Fragmentation, Inequality and Social Justice: Ethical Perspectives -- Introduction -- The apartheid city and beyond -- Inequality in the United States city -- The multicultural city -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 3: The Degeneration of Urban Policy after Apartheid -- Introduction -- The Local Government White Paper -- The Housing White Paper -- The Urban Development Strategy -- Conclusion: Towards cities of solidarity -- References -- Chapter 4: South Africa's Enduring Urban Crisis: The Local State and the Urban Social Movement with Particular Reference to Johannesburg -- Introduction -- The civic movement in crisis -- Social movements and the new economic regime -- Democracy deferred and bureaucratising the civics -- Uneven development within the post-apartheid city -- The development dilemma within the civic movement, and between the civic movement and local government -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: HIV/Aids and Urban Disintegration in Johannesburg -- Introduction -- Demographic projections for Johannesburg in the light of HIV/Aids -- Economic trends.

Economic and urban strategies and worsening poverty -- Urban disintegration -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Social Justice, Social Integration and the Compact City: Lessons from the Inner City of Johannesburg -- Introduction -- Social justice in the compact city -- Integrative trends in South African cities -- Racial integration and racial tipping in the inner city of Johannesburg -- Racial tension: Landlords versus tenants -- Integration of income groups -- Urban regeneration and housing affordability -- Appropriate scale -- Opportunities for the marginalised -- Rural-urban and foreign migrants -- Conclusion -- References -- Part B: Urban Planning Responses -- Chapter 7: Housing, Integrated Urban Development and the Compact City Debate -- Introduction: The compact city debate in South Africa -- Urban compaction: A socially desirable alternative? -- The feasibility of urban compaction: A Durban case study -- Conclusion: Is urban compaction still important? -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 8: Unravelling the Different Meanings of Integration: The Urban Development Framework of the South African Government -- Introduction -- Central features of the Urban Development Framework -- Four connotations of integration in the Urban Development Framework -- Integration as policy rationale and outcome -- Integration as object of spatial planning -- Integration as the glue for sectoral investments -- Integration as institutional rationale -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 9: Planning for Integration: The Case of Metropolitan Cape Town -- Introduction -- Spatial planning in Cape Town and the issue of functional integration -- The development of a new spatial plan for Cape Town -- Introducing concepts of integration and development into local government -- Negotiating the new discourse of integration.

Integration, competing story-lines and power -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: Housing and Urban Passenger Transport Policy and Planning in South African Cities: A Problematic Relationship? -- Introduction -- The continued peripheralisation of low-income housing in postapartheid South Africa -- The impact of peripherally located subsidised housing on beneficiary households' travel -- The impact of peripherally located subsidised housing on urban passenger transport systems -- The new transport policy agenda and the emerging urban transport planning framework -- A convergent intersection of integrated development planning and integrated transport planning? -- Conclusion: Tackling the housing-transport nexus -- References -- Chapter 11: A Time and a Space for African Identities in Planning in South Africa? -- Introduction -- Some African identities -- The traditional African identity -- The Pan-African African identity -- The post-colonial African identity -- A time for African identities in the post-1994 South African planning system? -- The new planning system -- Assessment: The presence and extent of African identities in the new planning system -- Seeking explanations for 'the omissions' -- Macro-explanations -- Micro-explanations -- A space for some African identities? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: Alternative Urban Planning and Management in Brazil: Instructive Examples for Other Countries inthe South? -- Introduction -- Purposes and roots of 'alternative urban planning' in Brazil -- 'Participatory budgeting': The Brazilian experience of citizen participation in resource allocation -- Some additional remarks about the relevance of the 'urban reform' instruments and of 'participatory budgeting' to socio-spatial development -- Conclusion: Instructive examples for other countries in the South? -- Acknowledgements -- References.

Part C: The Role of Housing -- Chapter 13: Addressing Segregation Through Housing Policy and Finance -- Introduction -- Causes of housing segregation and its perpetuation -- Policy responses: Redressing segregation of low-income housing -- Quotas of low-income units in middle-class areas -- Inclusionary zoning and the social function of private property -- Decommodification of housing -- Rental versus ownership subsidies -- Demand-side versus supply-side subsidies -- Locational choice through organised self-management and participatory budgeting -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 14: Illegal Housing: Law, Property Rights and Urban Space -- Introduction -- Law in the context of critical urban research -- Urbanisation in the context of legal studies -- The ideological battlefield -- Law, illegality and access to land and housing -- The question of property rights -- Regularisation policies and security of land tenure -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 15: An Interpretation of Sustainable Development and Urban Sustainability in Low-Cost Housing and Settlements in South Africa -- Introduction: Sustainable development and sustainable urban form -- Sustainable cities and human settlements -- Urban sustainability and urban form -- The compact versus the sprawl city -- Other contrasts in city form -- Sustainable low-cost housing, urban sustainability and the sustainable development debate in South Africa -- Low-cost housing in the context of the building construction sector -- Sustainable housing and settlement initiatives: Overview of case studies -- Sustainable housing and settlement: Policy initiatives -- Policy and legislation with reference to sustainable housing and settlement -- Sustainable housing policy of the city of Johannesburg -- Conclusion -- References.

Chapter 16: The Integrated Delivery of Housing: A Local Government Perspective from Durban -- Introduction -- Concepts of integrated development -- The housing context of Durban 1997-2001 -- The institutional environment -- The mandate of Metro Housing -- Spatial integration -- Internal integration -- An integrated process of delivery -- An integral response to needs -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 17: Self-Managed Housing Construction: The Experience of São Paulo -- Introduction -- The economic context of housing in Brazil -- The politicisation of the periphery and the urban social movements in São Paulo -- The concept of mutirão and self-management -- The Case of Apuanã -- Community organisation -- The structuring of the partnership under the Workers' Party local government (1988-1992 -- Power conflicts during construction -- The situation under subsequent local governments (1992 to date) -- Conclusion: An assessment of the mutirão process -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index.