Combating socio-spatial polarization in a globalizing environment: a textual analysis of the tension between pro-growth and pro-poor policies in the housing plan of Cape Town, South Africa

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dc.contributor.advisorSchmitz, Charles
dc.contributor.authorStrong, Michael
dc.contributor.departmentTowson University. Department of Geography and Environmental Planning
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-17T19:19:06Z
dc.date.available2015-12-17T19:19:06Z
dc.date.issued2013-01-18
dc.date.submitted2012-05
dc.description(M.A.) -- Towson University, 2012.
dc.description.abstractCities across the developing world are caught between the demands of growth-oriented globalization and pro-poor policies aimed to improve the livelihoods of impoverished residents. For world cities, like Cape Town, the dynamics of world city formation, especially the impact of socio-spatial polarization, complicates the relationship between growth and redistribution. Cape Town's legacy as an apartheid city further exacerbates the situation. Cape Town's government believes it can achieve both a growth agenda and a redistribution agenda to overcome the segregation inherited from the apartheid era while dealing with the socio-spatial polarization that occurs during world city formation. A textual analysis of the language used in the city's Integrated Development Plan and Integrated Housing Plan, however, shows the city favors growth over redistribution.
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dc.format.extentviii, 97 pages
dc.genretheses
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M2D13V
dc.identifier.otherTSP2012Strong
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/1952
dc.language.isoeng
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