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Understandings of urban regeneration, heritage and environmental justice at constitution hill, Johannesburg

Understandings of urban regeneration, heritage and environmental justice at constitution hill,... Understandings of Urban Regeneration, Heritage and Environmental Justice at Constitution Hill, Johannesburg Clinton David van der Merwe and Zarina Patel "Planners would benefit from integrating social theory with environmental thinking and from combining their substantive skills with techniques for community resolution, to confront economic and environmental injustice" (Campbell, 2001, 251). INTRODUCTION The changing landscape of South African cities has been directed by efforts changing the form and function of particular nodes in the city. Whilst these inter- ventions have resulted in spatial changes in the city fabric, they have been under- pinned by particular motivations linked to the development and redistribution of human, social, economic and environmental capital. The success of urban regen- eration initiatives can therefore not be understood in purely physical terms. Changes in the spatial formation of South African cities need to be understood with respect to the values underpinning change. This paper assesses the potential relationship between heritage and environmental justice as values informing re- generation at Constitution Hill by firstly focussing on the policy process, and secondly understanding the relationship between physical form and visitors' un- derstandings of these approaches. This study therefore focuses on the goal of building cities that are sustainable, by http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Urban Forum Springer Journals

Understandings of urban regeneration, heritage and environmental justice at constitution hill, Johannesburg

Merwe, Clinton; Patel, Zarina
Urban Forum , Volume 16 (3) – Jul 28, 2005
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2005 by Transaction Publishers
Subject
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/s12132-005-1007-7
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Understandings of Urban Regeneration, Heritage and Environmental Justice at Constitution Hill, Johannesburg Clinton David van der Merwe and Zarina Patel "Planners would benefit from integrating social theory with environmental thinking and from combining their substantive skills with techniques for community resolution, to confront economic and environmental injustice" (Campbell, 2001, 251). INTRODUCTION The changing landscape of South African cities has been directed by efforts changing the form and function of particular nodes in the city. Whilst these inter- ventions have resulted in spatial changes in the city fabric, they have been under- pinned by particular motivations linked to the development and redistribution of human, social, economic and environmental capital. The success of urban regen- eration initiatives can therefore not be understood in purely physical terms. Changes in the spatial formation of South African cities need to be understood with respect to the values underpinning change. This paper assesses the potential relationship between heritage and environmental justice as values informing re- generation at Constitution Hill by firstly focussing on the policy process, and secondly understanding the relationship between physical form and visitors' un- derstandings of these approaches. This study therefore focuses on the goal of building cities that are sustainable, by

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