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Civic structures and unfulfilled desires

Civic structures and unfulfilled desires Cato Manor and the New Order DAVID HEMSON We have a very good government but now the problem with our beloved government is that the promises which were made to us have not yet been met. - Member of the Development Committee, Jamaica In the striving for national development certain communities have come to symbolise the transition from the brutalities of apartheid to the achievement of social and economic development. Sophiatown represented the cultural resistance of the 1950s; Soweto the political struggles of the 1970s. Cato Manor, which is situated just over the ridge overlooking the central business area of Durban, represented both a cultural and political tradition and now has pride of place in the public face of Durban Metro development. Here is a community once vital and in some way prospering on the fringes of the old apartheid city boundaries, multi-cultural and multi-ethnic, displaying a disorderly vitality which acted as a magnet to the urban poor. Because of its place in the iconography of the history of the urban dispossessed, of the presence of African people originally on the border of the old white city and now virtually at the centre, it attracted Presidential interest with the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Urban Forum Springer Journals

Civic structures and unfulfilled desires

Hemson, David
Urban Forum , Volume 11 (1) – Apr 8, 2009
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Springer Journals
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Social Sciences, general; Human Geography; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Population Economics; Political Science; Sociology
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1015-3802
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Cato Manor and the New Order DAVID HEMSON We have a very good government but now the problem with our beloved government is that the promises which were made to us have not yet been met. - Member of the Development Committee, Jamaica In the striving for national development certain communities have come to symbolise the transition from the brutalities of apartheid to the achievement of social and economic development. Sophiatown represented the cultural resistance of the 1950s; Soweto the political struggles of the 1970s. Cato Manor, which is situated just over the ridge overlooking the central business area of Durban, represented both a cultural and political tradition and now has pride of place in the public face of Durban Metro development. Here is a community once vital and in some way prospering on the fringes of the old apartheid city boundaries, multi-cultural and multi-ethnic, displaying a disorderly vitality which acted as a magnet to the urban poor. Because of its place in the iconography of the history of the urban dispossessed, of the presence of African people originally on the border of the old white city and now virtually at the centre, it attracted Presidential interest with the

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