Alison Todes
Biographic Data
| ID | 125342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Todes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Todes |
| SIGNATURE | TODES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0719-8887 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 152 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Planning’s promises
After being seen as a conservative practice, inappropriate to the development needs of African cities, planning is being reinvented as a way to manage urbanization towards greater sustainability and inclusivity. New planning approaches have been posited by agencies such as the UN-Habitat, with its New Urban Agenda. However, planning has developed in different ways across the globe, with significant variations across the global south and across Af…
Africa’s Suburban Constellations
Beyond variegation
Large-scale urban development projects are a significant format of urban expansion and renewal across the globe. As generators of governance innovation and indicators of the future city in each urban context, large-scale development projects have been interpreted within frameworks of ‘variegations’ of wider circulating processes, such as neoliberalisation or financialisation. However, such projects often entail significant state support and inves…
Conceptualizing African Urban Peripheries
Recent years have seen a rising interest in peri-urban spaces, urban frontiers and new suburbanisms, including in African contexts. However, given the scale of urban growth and the extreme diversity of formations emerging on the geographical edges of African city-regions, a deeper understanding is needed of the drivers of peripheral urbanisms and the lived experiences of urban change in these spaces. Based on a comparative research project in Sou…
Scholarship and policy on urban densification
Urban compaction and densification policy is widely advocated internationally, including for countries in the global South. Such advocacy draws on ‘best practice’ case examples, but these are frequently presented in decontextualised ways. Drawing from an account of densification processes and policies in six cities – Moscow, Curitiba, Sydney, Johannesburg, Delhi and São Paulo – the paper shows that while policy is sometimes similar, outcomes are …
Not Exceptional, Just Different
Re-directing developers
The role of developers in shaping the built environment has attracted considerable critical attention, often focussing on the overbearing role of powerful, globalised actors in urban development. But there is also evidence that regulatory pathways shape outcomes. Through the case of a large-scale initiative in Johannesburg, South Africa, the "Corridors of Freedom", we consider whether there is potential for developmental benefit to be gained from…
Spatial inequalities and policies in South Africa
Densifying Johannesburg
Shaping peripheral growth? Strategic spatial planning in a South African city-region
Spatial transformations in a “loosening state”
Changing Space, Changing City
As the dynamo of South Africa’s economy, Johannesburg commands a central position in the nation’s imagination, and scholars throughout the world monitor the city as an exemplar of urbanity in the global South. This richly illustrated study offers detailed empirical analyses of changes in the city’s physical space, as well as a host of chapters on the character of specific neighbourhoods and the social identities being forged within them. Informin…
New African Suburbanisation? Exploring the Growth of the Northern Corridor of eThekwini/KwaDakuza
Suburbanisation, understood as 'the combination of non-central population and economic growth with urban spatial expansion' has been on the rise in African cities, as well as internationally, and has taken on diverse forms. This article contributes to an understanding of the dynamics of suburbanisation through exploring the growth since the 1990s of the northern corridor of eThekwini municipality and the adjacent KwaDakuza municipality. The artic…
Inclusionary housing policy
New Directions in Spatial Planning? Linking Strategic Spatial Planning and Infrastructure Development
There are growing arguments for linking strategic spatial planning to infrastructure development, particularly within developing countries. This article assesses potentials and challenges of these approaches, focusing particularly on an emerging approach in Johannesburg, South Africa. In Johannesburg, this approach provides more powerful sets of mechanisms than planning has had in the past but is demanding and confronts significant challenges. Wh…
Urban growth and strategic spatial planning in Johannesburg, South Africa
Reinventing Planning
Contemporary South African Urbanization Dynamics
Including Women? (Dis)junctures Between Voice, Policy and Implementation in Integrated Development Planning
Beyond master planning? New approaches to spatial planning in Ekurhuleni, South Africa
The Relationship between Planning and Environmental Management in South Africa
In South Africa, environmental management is a separate legal and institutional system parallel to planning, and the two are poorly integrated. This paper uses an institutional analysis of the relationship between environmental management and planning in the KwaZulu-Natal province to understand the tensions that arise. The basis for tension is identified in the divided legal and institutional systems; duplication in the regulatory systems; their …
Décentralisation et participation des femmes aux plans de développement intégré (PDI) en Afrique du Sud
Au plan international, la décentralisation fait désormais partie intégrante des recettes de bonne gouvernance promues par les institutions comme la Banque mondiale et les Nations unies. Cet intérêt est fondé sur l’idée que la décentralisation favorisera la démocratie participative, introduira un système de prestation de services plus adapté aux besoins, fera progresser les droits des citoyens et favorisera l’égalité des sexes, profitant donc aux …
Integrated area development projects
Education after apartheid
The paper explores and explains trends in the number, profile and distribution of planning students in South Africa since 1994. It locates the discussion in the changing nature of planning, and the labour market for planners in the post-apartheid era, and considers the way trends in tertiary education in South Africa are shaping patterns. While student numbers have been roughly constant, the composition of students has changed, and there is a shi…
Headlines and Head-space
Urban growth and strategic spatial planning in Johannesburg, South Africa
Beyond variegation
Large-scale urban development projects are a significant format of urban expansion and renewal across the globe. As generators of governance innovation and indicators of the future city in each urban context, large-scale development projects have been interpreted within frameworks of ‘variegations’ of wider circulating processes, such as neoliberalisation or financialisation. However, such projects often entail significant state support and inves…
Spatial transformations in a “loosening state”
Re-directing developers
The role of developers in shaping the built environment has attracted considerable critical attention, often focussing on the overbearing role of powerful, globalised actors in urban development. But there is also evidence that regulatory pathways shape outcomes. Through the case of a large-scale initiative in Johannesburg, South Africa, the "Corridors of Freedom", we consider whether there is potential for developmental benefit to be gained from…
Beyond master planning? New approaches to spatial planning in Ekurhuleni, South Africa
New African Suburbanisation? Exploring the Growth of the Northern Corridor of eThekwini/KwaDakuza
Suburbanisation, understood as 'the combination of non-central population and economic growth with urban spatial expansion' has been on the rise in African cities, as well as internationally, and has taken on diverse forms. This article contributes to an understanding of the dynamics of suburbanisation through exploring the growth since the 1990s of the northern corridor of eThekwini municipality and the adjacent KwaDakuza municipality. The artic…
Conceptualizing African Urban Peripheries
Recent years have seen a rising interest in peri-urban spaces, urban frontiers and new suburbanisms, including in African contexts. However, given the scale of urban growth and the extreme diversity of formations emerging on the geographical edges of African city-regions, a deeper understanding is needed of the drivers of peripheral urbanisms and the lived experiences of urban change in these spaces. Based on a comparative research project in Sou…
Densifying Johannesburg
Development, Crises and Alternative Visions. Third World Women's Perspectives
Gender and integrated area development projects
The paper examines whether integrated area development projects are particularly well placed to recognize the complexity and diversity of gender relations and provide important space for gender sensitive planning and practice. It recounts the case of the Cato Manor project in Durban, South Africa, where, despite no explicit focus on gender in design, practices were remarkably consistent with the prescriptions of the urban gender planning literatu…
A Bit on the Side
engaged in a creative dialogue to formulate policies to effect the transition to a 'post-apartheid' state and to adopt forms of organization and strategy consistent with and complementary to such policy. Until recently, however, a consideration of gender has been lacking in this exciting debate.' This is not simply the result of a dominant androcentric discourse, but must also be attributed to gaps and shortcomings in the analysis of women's oppr…
The Use of Spatial Frameworks in Regional Development in South Africa
The article examines and evaluates the use of spatial frameworks as a mechanism to support and guide regional development processes in South Africa, in the light of the renewed interest in spatial frameworks internationally. In South Africa, this new form of spatial planning arises from the need to co‐ordinate and integrate development, and to begin to alter the distorted spatial patterns of the past. The article highlights problems confronting a…
Inclusionary housing policy
Scholarship and policy on urban densification
Urban compaction and densification policy is widely advocated internationally, including for countries in the global South. Such advocacy draws on ‘best practice’ case examples, but these are frequently presented in decontextualised ways. Drawing from an account of densification processes and policies in six cities – Moscow, Curitiba, Sydney, Johannesburg, Delhi and São Paulo – the paper shows that while policy is sometimes similar, outcomes are …
New Directions in Spatial Planning? Linking Strategic Spatial Planning and Infrastructure Development
There are growing arguments for linking strategic spatial planning to infrastructure development, particularly within developing countries. This article assesses potentials and challenges of these approaches, focusing particularly on an emerging approach in Johannesburg, South Africa. In Johannesburg, this approach provides more powerful sets of mechanisms than planning has had in the past but is demanding and confronts significant challenges. Wh…
Industrial Decentralization Policy in South Africa
Industrial decentralization has formed a central element of state regional policy under South Africa's apartheid government. Increasingly, the government has attempted to justify this policy by linking it to international theories and precedents regarding regional development and the use of growth poles. This paper examines the potential efficacy of decentralization policy as a tool for promoting regional development in South Africa. It concludes…
Local government reform, urban crisis and development in South Africa
Shaping peripheral growth? Strategic spatial planning in a South African city-region
Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale
Foreword by Silvia Federici * Preface to the critique influence change edition * Introduction * 1. What is Feminism? * 2. Social Origins of the Sexual Division of Labour * 3. Colonization and Housewifization * 4. Housewifization International: Women and the International Division of Labour * 5. Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Primitive Accumulation of Capital * 6. National Liberation and Women's Liberation * 7. Towards a Feminist Perspecti…
Not Exceptional, Just Different
Décentralisation et participation des femmes aux plans de développement intégré (PDI) en Afrique du Sud
Au plan international, la décentralisation fait désormais partie intégrante des recettes de bonne gouvernance promues par les institutions comme la Banque mondiale et les Nations unies. Cet intérêt est fondé sur l’idée que la décentralisation favorisera la démocratie participative, introduira un système de prestation de services plus adapté aux besoins, fera progresser les droits des citoyens et favorisera l’égalité des sexes, profitant donc aux …
Education after apartheid
The paper explores and explains trends in the number, profile and distribution of planning students in South Africa since 1994. It locates the discussion in the changing nature of planning, and the labour market for planners in the post-apartheid era, and considers the way trends in tertiary education in South Africa are shaping patterns. While student numbers have been roughly constant, the composition of students has changed, and there is a shi…
Headlines and Head-space
Industrial Restructuring in South Africa
This paper examines the contemporary dynamics of industrial restructuring within Newcastle, a peripheral South African town that was, in many senses, a product of state industrial decentralisation and other apartheid policies. Processes of globalisation, and particularly the shift away from a regime of import substitution in the context of economic crisis, have been key to the form of restructuring that has occurred in Newcastle. But restructurin…
Gender in metropolitan development strategies
Urbanization processes and policies in Africa
The urbanization experiences of Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe are examined, with emphasis on the effectiveness of policies designed to influence urbanization. The first part of the study describes the measures adopted; the second part attempts to evaluate their effectiveness as well as their impact on poverty and inequality
The South African State and urbanisation policy
Industrial Decentralization Policy in South Africa
Industrial decentralization has formed a central element of state regional policy under South Africa's apartheid government. Increasingly, the government has attempted to justify this policy by linking it to international theories and precedents regarding regional development and the use of growth poles. This paper examines the potential efficacy of decentralization policy as a tool for promoting regional development in South Africa. It concludes…
Local government reform, urban crisis and development in South Africa
Local government restructuring in South Africa
In the current context of reform in South Africa, recent proposals by constitutional planners to restructure the system of local government are significant because they could have a substantial impact on the form and content of political struggle at the local level. Conversely, the evolution of the system of local government can itself be seen to have been altered and shaped by the particular dynamics of social and political change in different l…
Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale
Foreword by Silvia Federici * Preface to the critique influence change edition * Introduction * 1. What is Feminism? * 2. Social Origins of the Sexual Division of Labour * 3. Colonization and Housewifization * 4. Housewifization International: Women and the International Division of Labour * 5. Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Primitive Accumulation of Capital * 6. National Liberation and Women's Liberation * 7. Towards a Feminist Perspecti…
A Bit on the Side
engaged in a creative dialogue to formulate policies to effect the transition to a 'post-apartheid' state and to adopt forms of organization and strategy consistent with and complementary to such policy. Until recently, however, a consideration of gender has been lacking in this exciting debate.' This is not simply the result of a dominant androcentric discourse, but must also be attributed to gaps and shortcomings in the analysis of women's oppr…
Development, Crises and Alternative Visions. Third World Women's Perspectives
Shelter, women and development
Women and housing policy in South Africa
Gender in metropolitan development strategies
Industrial Restructuring in South Africa
This paper examines the contemporary dynamics of industrial restructuring within Newcastle, a peripheral South African town that was, in many senses, a product of state industrial decentralisation and other apartheid policies. Processes of globalisation, and particularly the shift away from a regime of import substitution in the context of economic crisis, have been key to the form of restructuring that has occurred in Newcastle. But restructurin…
South African urbanisation dynamics and the normalisation thesis
The Use of Spatial Frameworks in Regional Development in South Africa
The article examines and evaluates the use of spatial frameworks as a mechanism to support and guide regional development processes in South Africa, in the light of the renewed interest in spatial frameworks internationally. In South Africa, this new form of spatial planning arises from the need to co‐ordinate and integrate development, and to begin to alter the distorted spatial patterns of the past. The article highlights problems confronting a…
Methods of achieving integration in development planning
The paper evaluates the effectiveness of five methods used by municipalities to enhance integration in the context of integrated development planning in South Africa: conceptualisation of the planning and development process within a Local Agenda 21 (LA 21) process; complex issue identification and causal analysis as a basis for formulating strategies and projects; spatial frameworks to guide investment and development; linking of planning to imp…
Integrated area development projects
Education after apartheid
The paper explores and explains trends in the number, profile and distribution of planning students in South Africa since 1994. It locates the discussion in the changing nature of planning, and the labour market for planners in the post-apartheid era, and considers the way trends in tertiary education in South Africa are shaping patterns. While student numbers have been roughly constant, the composition of students has changed, and there is a shi…
Headlines and Head-space
Gender and integrated area development projects
The paper examines whether integrated area development projects are particularly well placed to recognize the complexity and diversity of gender relations and provide important space for gender sensitive planning and practice. It recounts the case of the Cato Manor project in Durban, South Africa, where, despite no explicit focus on gender in design, practices were remarkably consistent with the prescriptions of the urban gender planning literatu…
Décentralisation et participation des femmes aux plans de développement intégré (PDI) en Afrique du Sud
Au plan international, la décentralisation fait désormais partie intégrante des recettes de bonne gouvernance promues par les institutions comme la Banque mondiale et les Nations unies. Cet intérêt est fondé sur l’idée que la décentralisation favorisera la démocratie participative, introduira un système de prestation de services plus adapté aux besoins, fera progresser les droits des citoyens et favorisera l’égalité des sexes, profitant donc aux …
The Relationship between Planning and Environmental Management in South Africa
In South Africa, environmental management is a separate legal and institutional system parallel to planning, and the two are poorly integrated. This paper uses an institutional analysis of the relationship between environmental management and planning in the KwaZulu-Natal province to understand the tensions that arise. The basis for tension is identified in the divided legal and institutional systems; duplication in the regulatory systems; their …
Contemporary South African Urbanization Dynamics
Including Women? (Dis)junctures Between Voice, Policy and Implementation in Integrated Development Planning
Beyond master planning? New approaches to spatial planning in Ekurhuleni, South Africa
Reinventing Planning
Political science (33 works) · Economics (26 works) · Geography (26 works) · Economic growth (21 works) · Local Economic Development and Planning (20 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (20 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Legal Issues in South Africa (13 works) · Politics (13 works) · Business (12 works)