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Author : Mike Cadman
Publisher : Jacana Media
ISBN 13 : 1770092749
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Gauteng written by Mike Cadman and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2007 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264122842
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (641 download)
Download or read book OECD Territorial Reviews: The Gauteng City-Region, South Africa 2011 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of South Africa’s achievements since the fall of apartheid, this Review evaluates measures to position economic development policy and to confront economic inequality in the Johannesburg/Pretoria region.
Author : Maringe, Felix
Publisher : African Minds
ISBN 13 : 0621429155
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Twenty Years of Education Transformation in Gauteng 1994 to 2014 written by Maringe, Felix and published by African Minds. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty Years of Education Transformation in Gauteng 1994 to 2014: An Independent Review presents a collection of 15 important essays on different aspects of education in Gauteng since the advent of democracy in 1994. These essays talk to what a provincial education department does and how and why it does these things - whether it be about policy, resourcing or implementing projects. Each essay is written by one or more specialist in the relevant focus area. The book is written to be accessible to the general reader as well as being informative and an essential resource for the specialist reader. It sheds light on aspects of how a provincial department operates and why and with what consequences certain decisions have been made in education over the last 20 turbulent years, both nationally and provincially. There has been no attempt to fit the book's chapters into a particular ideological or educational paradigm, and as a result the reader will find differing views on various aspects of the Gauteng Department of Education's present and past. We leave the reader to decide to what extent the GDE has fulfilled its educational mandate over the last 20 years.
Author : Mamokete Modiba
Publisher : Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO)
ISBN 13 : 1990972322
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)
Download or read book "Township economies": Uses, meanings and key debates in the Gauteng context written by Mamokete Modiba and published by Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO). This book was released on with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper presents multiple meanings of ‘township economies’ and the implications of key debates around framing township economic development. Overlaps in various national and provincial government strategies have included government procurement in townships, settlement upgrading, promoting entrepreneurship and creating a conducive regulatory environment for productivity. These efforts notwithstanding, the paper points out the need to include township development within broader national policy and encourages discussion on important concerns such as bringing jobs to people or people to jobs.
Author : Christina Culwick
Publisher : Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO)
ISBN 13 : 0639987370
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Towards applying a green infrastructure approach in the Gauteng City-Region written by Christina Culwick and published by Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO). This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the context of heightened climate variability, thinking about ways to redesign our urban areas with more sustainable infrastructure solutions is becoming more and more important. Green infrastructure (GI) is emerging as an alternative approach to traditional (‘grey’) infrastructure in urban planning and development. Its emergence can be understood in terms of the growing demand for infrastructure and services, increased concerns over natural resource constraints and climate change, and the negative impacts associated with traditional approaches to designing and building cities. It has been proposed that GI can provide the same services as traditional infrastructure at a similar capital cost, while also providing a range of additional benefits. However, despite the increasing examples of successful urban GI applications, traditional infrastructure continues to dominate due to the lack of systematic evidence to support GI implementation. As a result, there has been an increase in calls from policy- and decision-makers for a greater evidence base on the benefits of GI, as well as for practical guidelines on its implementation. ‘Towards applying a green infrastructure approach in the Gauteng City-Region’ is the GCRO’s third report in its ongoing research into 'Green assets and infrastructure'. The first two reports in this project series were more theoretically grounded and policy-oriented, whereas this third report is more practical in nature. The first report explored the basic principles around GI, assessed the extent of ecological features in Gauteng and the way governments in the province think about planning and maintenance of green assets. The second report responded to some of the challenges identified in the first report, and in particular the importance of government officials and practitioners in exploring how international green infrastructure plans could be applied in the Gauteng context. This third report builds on the findings of the aforementioned reports and the project’s CityLab series, which highlighted the need to build an evidence base as critical for garnering support for and as well as enhancing investment in the GI approach. Unlike the more theoretically grounded earlier reports, this report comprises four technical sections and practical reflections on how a GI approach could be incorporated into urban planning in the GCR and in other similar urban contexts.
Author : Talita Greyling
Publisher : Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO)
ISBN 13 : 0620590157
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book A composite index of quality of life for the Gauteng city-region: a principal component analysis approach written by Talita Greyling and published by Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO). This book was released on with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The improvement of the quality of life of all South Africans is high on the agenda at national (The National Planning Commission, 2012) and regional levels of government (The Gauteng Planning Commission, 2012) and it is therefore important to develop an instrument that can measure this multi-dimensional concept. The need therefore exists for a composite index of quality of life with the ability to both track the quality of life of people over time and compare it across different demographic and socio-economic groups. Such a measure could identify those demographic and socio-economic groups with low levels of quality of life and also highlight dimensions that need to be prioritised in order to improve the wellbeing of people. In South Africa there are a limited number of quality of life indices and measures of wellbeing. Indices that measure wellbeing nationally include: the Quality of Life Index of Moller and Schlemmer (1983), the Living Standard Measure (LSM) Index produced by the South African Audience Research Foundation (SAARF) (2013), the South African Development Index of the South African Institute of Race Relations (2011), and the Everyday Quality of Life Index (Higgs, 2007). The following indices measure wellbeing at a regional level: the Quality of Metropolitan City Life in South Africa Index (Naude, et al., 2009), the Non-Economic Quality of Life Index at Sub-National Levels (Rossouw & Naude, 2008) and the Quality of Life Index of the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO, 2011). Although these quality of life indices make distinctive contributions to the study field, the focus of these studies is often to measure only objective or subjective quality of life or only economic or non-economic quality of life, rather than all of the above. Furthermore, many of the indices use equal weighting, which does not necessarily reflect the priorities of the communities.
Author : Allan Mabin
Publisher : Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO)
ISBN 13 : 0620560797
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book The map of Gauteng: evolution of a city-region in concept and plan written by Allan Mabin and published by Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO). This book was released on 2013-07-26 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mission of the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO) is to help illuminate trends and dynamics shaping the region of towns and cities in and around Gauteng, and also enhance understanding of the idea of the Gauteng City-Region (GCR) as a project – a different way of thinking about and governing this space. While much of the data collection and analysis work of the GCRO is focused on the present, we also consider the city-region’s past and its possible futures. A 2030 National Development Plan, crafted by the National Planning Commission, has recently been adopted. In addition the Gauteng Provincial Government, working with municipal partners and business, civil society and labour stakeholders, is drafting a G2055 long-term development plan. As our society looks forward to what sort of country and region we need to become, it is also important to look backward. Understanding the past gives us insights into how we have come to be where we are now, and so in turn what paths we should tread into the future. This Occasional Paper is one of two that GCRO has commissioned specifically to deepen our understanding of the past of the GCR. Both focus on aspects of the region’s spatial past, and ought to be read together. This paper by Alan Mabin explores how the idea of a city-region found expression in various statutory planning frameworks over the course of the last century, and how embryonic cityregion concepts influenced spatial decisions and developments. The companion paper by Brian Mubiwa and Harold Annegarn considers the different but related issue of the actual historical spatial evolution of the GCR. It examines key spatial changes that have shaped the region over a century and provides a remarkable picture, based on satellite imagery, of regional spatial growth in the last two decades.
Author : Richard Ballard
Publisher : Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO)
ISBN 13 : 0639911463
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Social cohesion in Gauteng written by Richard Ballard and published by Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO). This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing attacks on foreigners, including in April 2015, along with a succession of widely publicised incidents of racism, have triggered a new round of soul-searching in South Africa. Why, after the comprehensive defeat of apartheid and its ideology, does prejudice seem so intractable? What kinds of interventions could help reduce these troubling events? How can society be made more ‘cohesive’? Suggestions about what to do in the face of these challenges are sometimes speculative and wishful. They consist of appeals to the better nature of ordinary people, or an assumption that the feel good moments of the democratic transition can be re-enacted to bind everyone together. Calls for social cohesion and tolerance seem often to dodge the complex vicious cycles that lead to the instances of intolerance that erupt in the media or in communities. This Research Report centres on better understanding the current dynamics of social cohesion in Gauteng. It tackles five guiding questions, each of which corresponds to a chapter: 1. How has social cohesion become a goal in post-apartheid South Africa, and what are the key limitations resulting from this understanding of social progress? 2. In a global context, how is social cohesion defined and what are the main contestations about this ideal of social change? 3. How do the respondents in the GCRO's Quality of Life IV (2015/16) survey respond to questions on levels of trust, claims to belonging by different race groups, and the place of migrants and gays and lesbians in Gauteng? 4. How have past and present initiatives to improve social cohesion conceived of the problem they are attempting to address, and what is their scale of intervention? 5. What are the various methodologies that have been used in past and present initiatives to improve social cohesion? A key premise of this research was that our society has an enormous accumulation of experience in trying to tackle anti-social interactions and to address social injustices that are, in various ways, shaped by race, class, nationality, gender, sexuality and other identities. The last two chapters of this report are based on a review of more than 60 social cohesion initiatives. They analyse the wide variety of actors involved in such work, the different ways in which they conceive of their objectives, and the different scales at which they operate. These actors pursue dozens of different methodologies including sports and dialogue, arts, psychology, urban design, and public campaigns. This dispersed capacity through society is important because it represents experience-based responses to the ways in which anti-social behaviour and social injustice are reproduced. In attempting to determine a programme of action, we argue that we should learn from and extend existing and past attempts to tackle these difficulties.
Author : Richard Ballard
Publisher : Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO)
ISBN 13 : 1990972209
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Spatial trends in Gauteng written by Richard Ballard and published by Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO). This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Occasional Paper examines six spatial trends in Gauteng: urban sprawl, uneven densification, residential building growth, the reproduction of a property affordability gradient, socio-economic segregation and the reproduction of a mismatch between residential and economic areas. These spatial trends are the physical manifestation of a remarkable variety of actors responding to a wide variety of opportunities, incentives and disincentives; and they have important implications for spatial transformation. While it might be possible to name post-apartheid urban ideals, these six spatial trends underscore the disbursed nature of the energies producing urban space, and the need to understand and work with these energies in directing spatial transformation.
Author : Darlington Mushongera
Publisher : Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO)
ISBN 13 : 1990972101
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)
Download or read book An analysis of well-being in Gauteng province using the capability approach written by Darlington Mushongera and published by Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO). This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this occasional paper is to analyse well-being in Gauteng province from a capability perspective. The authors adopt a standard ‘capability approach’ consistent with Amartya Sen’s concept of capabilities.
Author : Christina Culwick
Publisher : Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO)
ISBN 13 : 0620728515
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (27 download)
Download or read book A framework for a green infrastructure planning approach in the Gauteng City-Region written by Christina Culwick and published by Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO). This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the population, economy and urban built environment in the Gauteng City-Region (GCR) expand, government is increasingly under pressure to provide urban infrastructure to support growth. It is increasingly important that this infrastructure is sustainable, minimising the negative environmental impacts often associated with traditional forms of urban development. Green Infrastructure (GI) is the interconnected set of natural and man-made ecological systems, green spaces and other landscape features that provide services and strategic functions in the same way as traditional infrastructure. In harnessing the benefits of ecosystem services, GI has emerged as a more efficient, cost effective and sustainable alternative – and sometimes accompanying approach – to conventional forms of infrastructure. Despite international evidence demonstrating how GI can be used as an alternative to, or in tandem with, traditional infrastructure, the GI approach has so far gained only limited traction in the GCR. In 2013 the GCRO published the State of Green Infrastructure in the GCR report. The report established the principles that underpin GI, used available data to map the extent of GI networks in the region, assessed to what extent municipalities were aware of and applying a GI approach, and demonstrated a possible way to value GI in local government financial systems. The conclusions of the State of Green Infrastructure report were used to guide the next phase of GCRO’s research in support of the adoption of GI approach – a phase focused on better understanding the opportunities for implementing GI in planning and infrastructure development programmes and on addressing some of the challenges associated with shifts towards this approach. A framework for a green infrastructure planning approach in the Gauteng City-Region, GCRO’s fourth Research Report, builds on the foundations laid in the State of Green Infrastructure report. It assembles expert inputs and reflections from collaborative stakeholder discussions in what was known as the Green Infrastructure CityLab to illustrate important considerations for the development of a GI planning approach in the Gauteng City-Region (GCR). The report is divided into three broad sections. Part A introduces the theoretical underpinnings of a GI approach and builds an argument for the importance of incorporating GI into planning and infrastructure development in the GCR. Part B presents three pieces written by external experts. They consider how GI and ecosystem services can be valued by municipalities, and how so-called ‘grey-green’ infrastructure design solutions can be implemented in the GCR. Part C reflects on the stakeholder engagement process that has been undertaken, primarily through the GI CityLab, to deepen understanding of how GI can be embedded in municipal practice. Based on these research findings, this report concludes with a strategy for GCRO’s next phase of work in its ongoing Green Assets and Infrastructure Project.
Author : Eliana Camargo Nino
Publisher : Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO)
ISBN 13 : 0620878622
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Urban agriculture in the Gauteng City-Region’s green infrastructure network written by Eliana Camargo Nino and published by Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO). This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this occasional paper is to gain a better understanding of urban agriculture within the green infrastructure network in the City of Johannesburg and to identify the range of ecosystem services that could be delivered when maintaining and investing in these assets. The analysis in this paper adopts a multi-method approach to (1) identify the interlinkages between urban agriculture and social, economic and environmental systems in the City of Johannesburg; (2) validate these critical interlinkages with stakeholder input and ground-level experience of urban agriculture; and (3) visualise these interlinkages through a spatial analysis of food gardens in the City of Johannesburg.
Author : Stephen Greenberg
Publisher : Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO)
ISBN 13 : 0620477997
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The political economy of the Gauteng City-Region written by Stephen Greenberg and published by Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO). This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gauteng city-region (GCR) is a relatively new concept for South Africa, although the model has been growing in other parts of the world for over a decade. This paper considers some of the global debates about the importance of city-regions in the current economic and political context. It provides an overview of the concept and the context within which it has been deployed. Debates about the role of cities in the global economy are regarded. Some critical reflections on the city-region, both conceptually and in practice, are made along economic, social, ecological and governance dimensions. This forms the backdrop for an analysis of the growth of the GCR, again both conceptually and practically along the same dimensions, with an emphasis on two key drivers of the city-region, transportation and housing/settlement.
Author : Thembani Mkhize
Publisher : Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO)
ISBN 13 : 1990972160
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Rescaling municipal governance amidst political competition in Gauteng: Sedibeng’s proposed re-demarcation written by Thembani Mkhize and published by Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO). This book was released on 2021-08-27 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2011, the Gauteng Provincial Government proposed that Sedibeng, a Category C district municipality located in the province, should be restructured. Although the original proposal had anticipated that this would happen after the 2016 local elections, the issue remains unresolved due largely to fierce party-political opposition and vociferous protests against it on the ground. This Occasional Paper examines the dynamics, particularities, peculiarities and challenges of re-demarcating the Gauteng City-Region. While informed by technical reasons, the arguments for and against the merger have tended to gravitate more towards party-political rationales for why the re-demarcation should or should not go ahead. Although these debates raise important merits and demerits for the proposal, they are difficult to disentangle from the interests of those whose fortunes would be changed by restructuring. In this environment, municipal demarcation risks being held hostage by party politics, with stakeholders such as political parties using any means at their disposal to have things go their way, including by scapegoating the Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB). The case of Sedibeng presents important lessons about attempts to make post-transition local government – and mechanisms for determining its configuration – work for Gauteng. It also highlights the need for strengthening and revising demarcation-related legislation. How can we make sure that the MDB functions effectively with respect to its primary goals?
Author : Christian Hamann
Publisher : Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO)
ISBN 13 : 1990972306
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)
Download or read book An analysis of microscale segregation and socio-economic sorting in Gauteng written by Christian Hamann and published by Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO). This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Occasional Paper analyses racial segregation and socio-economic sorting in Gauteng at the microscale. The three inquiries highlight continued segregation, but also nuances in the nature of desegregation in the Gauteng province at various macro- and microscales. The analysis reveals barriers and opportunities for future spatial transformation and highlights the potential role of public and private housing expansion in shaping equality of opportunity.
Author : Diane Coetzer
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1920545220
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Weekends away in and around Gauteng written by Diane Coetzer and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of spending your weekends mooching around the mall, fighting for your patch of green in an urban park, or slouching on the couch watching DVDs? Well then, pack your bags, grab your kids and take the first highway out of town. Gauteng, the country’s smallest province, is the ideal gateway to a staggering variety of weekend destinations. You can stay within its borders, or easily access neighbouring Mpumalanga, North West, Limpopo or Free State. Packed with information highlighting the attractions of 147 getaways, Weekends Away In and Around Gauteng is the perfect companion for families, starry-eyed lovers, anglers, adventure seekers, spa fans, game viewers and history buffs. Plush country hotels, intimate guesthouses, rugged mountain retreats, serene spa lodges, wildlife sanctuaries, fishing estates, and cosy self-catering cottages beckon. The entries are conveniently organised by travel time from the landmark Nelson Mandela Bridge in Jozi, and the maximum car ride is about four hours. Diane Coetzer is an avid traveller and award-winning journalist. As well as being the contributing music editor to Rolling Stone magazine, her work has appeared in many publications. She lives in Johannesburg with her partner and four children.
Author : Brian Mubiwa,
Publisher : Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO)
ISBN 13 : 0620560789
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Historical spatial change in the Gauteng City-Region written by Brian Mubiwa, and published by Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO). This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mission of the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO) is to help illuminate trends and dynamics shaping the region of towns and cities in and around Gauteng, and also enhance understanding of the idea of the Gauteng City-Region (GCR) as a project – a different way of thinking about and governing this space. While much of the data collection and analysis work of the GCRO is focused on the present, we also consider the city-region’s past and its possible futures. A 2030 National Development Plan, crafted by the National Planning Commission, has recently been adopted. In addition the Gauteng Provincial Government, working with municipal partners and business, civil society and labour stakeholders, is drafting a G2055 long-term development plan. As our society looks forward to what sort of country and region we need to become, it is also important to look backward. Understanding the past gives us insights into how we have come to be where we are now, and so in turn what paths we should tread into the future. This Occasional Paper is one of two that GCRO has commissioned specifically to deepen our understanding of the past of the GCR. Both focus on aspects of the region’s spatial past, and ought to be read together. This paper by Brian Mubiwa and Harold Annegarn explores the historical spatial evolution of the GCR. It examines key spatial changes that have shaped the region over a century and provides a remarkable picture, based on satellite imagery, of regional spatial growth in the last two decades. The companion paper by Alan Mabin asks the different but related question of how the idea of a city-region found expression in various statutory planning frameworks over the course of the last century, and how embryonic cityregion concepts influenced spatial decisions and developments.
