Local Officials and the Struggle to Transform Cities, A view from post-apartheid South Africa

Year

2024

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-1-80008-546-6

Link

Last Update

31-Mar-2026

Keywords

Public Policy & Administration ; Urban Studies ; Architecture & Architectural History

Description

This book was born from three encounters.

The first was with a book: Reinventing Cities: Equity Planners Tell Their Stories (Krumholz and Clavel 1994); followed by stimulating engagements with one of its authors, Pierre Clavel, to whom this book is dedicated. Reinventing Cities, a collection of constructed and focused testimonies of municipal planners working from inside the state to make cities more socially and spatially just, in the context of post-civil rights movements in North American cities, was possibly the most inspiring planning book I have ever read, and I use it regularly to teach my students. I discovered the...