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The South African functional metropolis – A synthesis
Confusing usage of terms such as metropolis and metropolitan region in planningpolicy in South Africa has led to the need for a fundamental investigation into themorphological and functional properties of the country’s three largest cities. UsingGauteng, Cape Town and Durban as examples, the article distinguishes betweendifferent elements of functionality of metropolitan areas linking urban functionto urban form. Starting at the global level and zooming in, the article examinesmetropolitan functional space at the national through the regional to the local level.Semantically, it distinguishes between the terms metropolis and megalopolis; dailyand weekly urban systems; and between urban monocentricism, multinodalityand polycentricism. Based on morphological differences, it classifies Cape Town,Durban, Pretoria and the Witwatersrand as metropolitan areas, but regards thesprawled urban agglomeration in Gauteng as a megalopolis. A case is also madefor greater recognition of the daily urban regions of the three primary cities of SouthAfrica as part of the larger urban system of each. Planning has focused for too longon metropolitan space inside the urban edge and too little on those parts of the citiesthat lie outside the edge.
The South African functional metropolis – A synthesis
Confusing usage of terms such as metropolis and metropolitan region in planningpolicy in South Africa has led to the need for a fundamental investigation into themorphological and functional properties of the country’s three largest cities. UsingGauteng, Cape Town and Durban as examples, the article distinguishes betweendifferent elements of functionality of metropolitan areas linking urban functionto urban form. Starting at the global level and zooming in, the article examinesmetropolitan functional space at the national through the regional to the local level.Semantically, it distinguishes between the terms metropolis and megalopolis; dailyand weekly urban systems; and between urban monocentricism, multinodalityand polycentricism. Based on morphological differences, it classifies Cape Town,Durban, Pretoria and the Witwatersrand as metropolitan areas, but regards thesprawled urban agglomeration in Gauteng as a megalopolis. A case is also madefor greater recognition of the daily urban regions of the three primary cities of SouthAfrica as part of the larger urban system of each. Planning has focused for too longon metropolitan space inside the urban edge and too little on those parts of the citiesthat lie outside the edge.
The South African functional metropolis – A synthesis
Geyer, Herman (author) / Geyer, Philip (author) / Geyer, Manie (author)
2015-12-31
Town and Regional Planning; Vol. 67 (2015); 13-26 ; 2415-0495 ; 1012-280X
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English
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710
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