Prospects for global city development in central Gauteng.

[摘要] This discourse investigates nature and the needs of global city development. It does this,through both theoretical and empirical research into this phenomenon, peculiar to the latetwentieth century. The first part of the work explores the theoretical underpinnings of'global city thesis'. and its host dominant critique, the 'dual city thesis'. Following this, anempirical assessment of the concept's relevance to Southern Africa's development isperformed. For this purpose, the most dominant locality in the region, Central Gauteng, isanalysed in terms of its potential for, and the problems involved with global citydevelopment in a middle-income country. It is found that global city development herewould be desirable for both Central Gauteng and the greater SADC. By establishing CentralGauteng as a global city, the region would be empowered to take greater control over itseconomic destiny. The path this development would, by necessity take, is the promotion ofthe locality as the 'Gateway to Africa'. Based on this orientation several developmentplanning proposals are presented.

[发布机构] University of the Witwatersrand