Urbani izziv Volume 25, No. supplement, July 2014
: S1–S4
(Editorial)
doi: 10.5379/urbani-izziv-en-2014-25-supplement-000
Author
Christian M. ROGERSON
University of Johannesburg, Faculty of Management, School of Tourism & Hospitality, South Africa
crogerson@uj.ac.za
Jayne M. ROGERSON
University of Johannesburg, Faculty of Science, School of Geography, Environmental Management & Energy Studies, South Africa
jayner@uj.ac.za
Nico KOTZE
University of Johannesburg, Department of Geography, Environmental Management and Energy Studies, South Africa
nicok@uj.ac.za
Title
Addressing South Africa’s urban challenges
Abstract
South Africa is among the most urbanized countries in Africa and has an urban population that is growing rapidly. The country’s urban challenges sometimes are considered as distinctive and separate to those of rest of Africa because of the apartheid legacy of a fragmented and racially splintered urban landscape. Nevertheless, 20 years after democratic transition the issues that confront its cities increasingly exhibit a set of sustainability challenges that typify those problems of many other fast-growing African urban areas. This introduction locates the collection of articles as a contribution to the expanding corpus of scholarship on urban South Africa.
Key Words
urban challenges, urban development, South Africa