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Inner-City economic revitalisation through cluster support: The Johannesburg clothing industry

Inner-City economic revitalisation through cluster support: The Johannesburg clothing industry INNER-CITY ECONOMIC REVITALISATION THROUGH CLUSTER SUPPORT: THE JOHANNESBURG CLOTHING INDUSTRY CHRISTIAN M. ROGERSON INTROD UCTION--THE ISS UE OF INNER- CITY ECONOMIC REVITALISATION The question of re-developing or economically regenerating the inner city is an important contemporary policy focus, particularly in Western Europe and North America (Fainstein, 1995). In addition, it is increasingly emerging as a policy issue in certain parts of the developing world (seeVerma, 1993; Ward, 1993). The plight of inner cities must be understood in relation to the impact on cities of wider processes of global economic restructuring (Fainstein, 1991, 1995; Hambleton, 1991).In particular, as a result of radical restructuring in the makeup of western urban economies "the traditional specialised industrial districts that first spawned the industrial city are all but a memory" (Graham, 1995,p. 85). Amidst the turbulence of the past two decades of global economic restructuring it is clear that "the economic fortunes of individual cities cannot be divorced from wider forces in the national and international economy" (Hambleton, 1991, p. 55). Since the 1970s the cities of North America and Western Europe have experienced the full weight of processes of global economic restructuring (Graham, 1995). Few urban centres have escaped "the ravages of employment http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Urban Forum Springer Journals

Inner-City economic revitalisation through cluster support: The Johannesburg clothing industry

Rogerson, Christian
Urban Forum , Volume 12 (1) – Jul 21, 2001
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2001 by Transaction Publishers
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Geography; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Human Geography; Sociology; Political Science; Population Economics
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1015-3802
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1874-6330
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10.1007/s12132-001-0003-9
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INNER-CITY ECONOMIC REVITALISATION THROUGH CLUSTER SUPPORT: THE JOHANNESBURG CLOTHING INDUSTRY CHRISTIAN M. ROGERSON INTROD UCTION--THE ISS UE OF INNER- CITY ECONOMIC REVITALISATION The question of re-developing or economically regenerating the inner city is an important contemporary policy focus, particularly in Western Europe and North America (Fainstein, 1995). In addition, it is increasingly emerging as a policy issue in certain parts of the developing world (seeVerma, 1993; Ward, 1993). The plight of inner cities must be understood in relation to the impact on cities of wider processes of global economic restructuring (Fainstein, 1991, 1995; Hambleton, 1991).In particular, as a result of radical restructuring in the makeup of western urban economies "the traditional specialised industrial districts that first spawned the industrial city are all but a memory" (Graham, 1995,p. 85). Amidst the turbulence of the past two decades of global economic restructuring it is clear that "the economic fortunes of individual cities cannot be divorced from wider forces in the national and international economy" (Hambleton, 1991, p. 55). Since the 1970s the cities of North America and Western Europe have experienced the full weight of processes of global economic restructuring (Graham, 1995). Few urban centres have escaped "the ravages of employment

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