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Book reviews Homes Apart : South Africa's Segregated Cities ANTHONY LEMON (ED.) David Philip, Cape Town, 1991, 237pp. R42.95 With the death throes of legislated urban apartheid have come several new studies purporting to explain the mould into which the South African city was forced under that system, and consequently how it may be extracted and repaired. These texts - notably South African Cities: A Manifesto for Change (1991), and The Apartheid City and Beyond (1992) - analyse contemporary urban form and process as a base which the post-apartheid reconstruction project may be launched. The extent to which each book raises pragmatic options for such urban reconstruction differs markedly. Homes Apart arrived in 1991 with the intention to 'place on record the cities created by segregation and apartheid' at the brink of the post-apartheid 'era of change' (p. ix). The main theme of the book is that while a blueprint for racial residential segregation existed under apartheid, the on-the-ground segregation experiences in each of ten South African cities differed both in implementation and physical result. Lemon's introductory chapter reviews the major trends that characterised segregationist then apartheid urban plan- ning, establishing a formula for a series of city studies. The selected http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Urban Forum Springer Journals

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Dauskardt, Rolf; Morris, Alan; Lupton, Malcolm
Urban Forum , Volume 3 (2) – Apr 7, 2009
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Springer Journals
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Social Sciences; Human Geography; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Population Economics; Political Science; Sociology, general
ISSN
1015-3802
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1874-6330
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10.1007/BF03036757
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Homes Apart : South Africa's Segregated Cities ANTHONY LEMON (ED.) David Philip, Cape Town, 1991, 237pp. R42.95 With the death throes of legislated urban apartheid have come several new studies purporting to explain the mould into which the South African city was forced under that system, and consequently how it may be extracted and repaired. These texts - notably South African Cities: A Manifesto for Change (1991), and The Apartheid City and Beyond (1992) - analyse contemporary urban form and process as a base which the post-apartheid reconstruction project may be launched. The extent to which each book raises pragmatic options for such urban reconstruction differs markedly. Homes Apart arrived in 1991 with the intention to 'place on record the cities created by segregation and apartheid' at the brink of the post-apartheid 'era of change' (p. ix). The main theme of the book is that while a blueprint for racial residential segregation existed under apartheid, the on-the-ground segregation experiences in each of ten South African cities differed both in implementation and physical result. Lemon's introductory chapter reviews the major trends that characterised segregationist then apartheid urban plan- ning, establishing a formula for a series of city studies. The selected

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Published: Apr 7, 2009

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