The sustainability of current housing strategies with specific reference to informal settlement

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT:Informal settlements are a common feature of the urban landscape in contemporarySouth Africa and constitute one of the biggest challenges to urban planning andmanagement at present. The political and legislative changes over the past decade havealtered the approach to the management of informal settlements.This study starts out by examining the global trends and theory of urbanization, withspecial focus on the Third World. The various legal and policy frameworks relating toinformal settlement and housing, as well as the implications thereof on urbanmanagement, are also examined. The assignment then proceeds to analyze theapplicability and effectiveness of structured, formalized planning with regard to themanagement of informal settlement.The said analysis is followed by recommendations for the management of informalsettlement, based on the preceding chapters. These recommendations suggest thefollowing:Planners and authorities should be more proactive m planning for informalsettlements.The applicability of individualized services should be reconsidered due toaffordability and the inability of individualized facilities to cater for high levelsof immigration. The study finally exanunes current strategies employed within the Cape MetropolitanArea, with special reference to the Fast Tracking process applied by the HelderbergMunicipality.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University