The influence of market forces in urban planning: a South African perspective
[摘要] English: The main objective of this study is to illustrate the importance of market forces on the urbanform and how these forces should be incorporated into the overall jigsaw puzzle of spatialand urban planning to produce a result that is equitable and fair to the people who areaffected thereby. This has been undertaken with specific reference to South Africa.Since the 1980s it became clear that dramatic population increases would take place in theworld's urban areas in general, and in particular in the mega-cities of developing countries.Various authors have predicted that economic growth would be accompanied by anacceleration in the rate of urbanisation; a considerable increase would occur in the numberof metropolitan conglomerates with over 4 million people each; and mega-city formationwould be more massive and rapid in the developing countries than in the developed ones,thus continuing to increase the population glut in many Third World cities.(Botha 1990,Cernea 1993, Potter & Lloyd-Evans 1998, International Monetary Fund 1999a) Theseforecasts became reality in the late 1990s and have become one of the major challengesfor city administrators and planners in the third millennium.
[发布日期] [发布机构] University of the Free State
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