Elite Compacts in Africa
The Role of Area-based Management in the New Governmentality of the Durban City-region
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4383377 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jo Beall (0000-0002-1898-3872, British Council Customer Service UK Bridgewater House, 58 Whitworth Street Manchester M1 6BB), Susan Parnell (0000-0002-5702-1684, Department of Geography University of Cape Town Post Bag 3, Rondebosch Cape Town Western Cape 7701 South Africa), Chris Albertyn (Chris Albertyn and Associates CC P.O. Box 797 Kloof Durban 3640 South Africa) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 390-406 |
| Publication date | 2015-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2427.12178 |
| OpenAlex | W1933664664 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 31 |
Through reflection on the practical post-apartheid (re)alignment of competing rationalities across the Greater Durban urban region, this essay teases out the interface between traditional and modern settlement management systems, and explores how governance cleavages are being renegotiated and mediated. It is suggested that, in building an integrated method of operating across the fragmented city-regional scale and navigating the competing interests involved, the practice of African urbanism is being defined. Without making any claims for what may or may not be uniquely African city-regional dynamics at the boundaries of tradition and modernity, what is clear from the Durban case is that both conventional city-regional literature and new city-regional ideas have glossed over the complexity of finding solutions to tensions between poor communities, urban managers, elected local authorities and the traditional rural elites of the functional city-regions of Africa
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,45 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |