Remaking an Apartheid City: State-led Spatial Transformation in Durban, South Africa.

Durban, South Africa was planned during apartheid as a series of concentric rings of commerce and residence, with whites closest to the core and blacks located in distant townships. Following the end of formal apartheid in 1991 and with the instantiation of majority rule in 1994, the African National Congress came to power with a mandate to link excluded black populations to the substantial growth potential of South Africa's pockets of first world economy and infrastructure. High capacity local government was tasked as the primary agent of transformation, and the tools of planning were retargeted away from division and exclusion and towards breaking down the racialized spatial arrangement of cities. Post-apartheid infrastructure development was intended to break down existing spatial structures through local and corridor-based economic development and increased opportunities for access and mobility. This paper uses spatial data from the 1996 and 2001 South African censuses together with city departmental data on housing and social services to examine links between public investment and spatial change. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]