Low-cost housing location in South African cities : empirical findings on costs and benefits

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dc.contributor.author Biermann, S.
dc.contributor.author Van Ryneveld, M.
dc.contributor.other Southern African Transport Conference (23rd : 2004 : Pretoria, South Africa)
dc.contributor.upauthor Venter, C.J. (Christoffel Jacobus)
dc.coverage.spatial South Africa en
dc.date.accessioned 2008-05-30T10:50:25Z
dc.date.available 2008-05-30T10:50:25Z
dc.date.issued 2004-07
dc.description This paper was transferred from the original CD ROM created for this conference. The material on the CD ROM was published using Adobe Acrobat technology. The original CD ROM was produced by Document Transformation Technologies Postal Address: PO Box 560 Irene 0062 South Africa. Tel.: +27 12 667 2074 Fax: +27 12 667 2766 E-mail: doctech@doctech.co.za URL: http://www.doctech.co.za en
dc.description.abstract Paper presented at the 23rd Annual Southern African Transport Conference 12 - 15 July 2004 "Getting recognition for the importance of transport", CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa. Low-cost housing delivery in South Africa is largely occurring at low densities on the urban peripheries where land is cheap, but where infrastructure and transport costs are often thought to be higher. To help provide an empirical understanding of the costs of sprawl, this paper analyses evidence from eight case study areas in Johannesburg and Ethekwini on the actual costs to all parties, as well as the benefits offered by each locality to its residents. Benefits are assessed in terms of the sustainable livelihoods approach. The findings do not support the compact city hypothesis that more central locations necessarily have lower overall costs and offer higher benefits than more distant locations. Variations are observed across areas in terms of travel distances and expenditures, infrastructure and land costs, and types of benefits, which are not related to the locality of the settlement in any simple way. Historical land use policy and lack of integrated planning have distorted the urban form to such an extent that theoretical cost differentials between sprawling and denser development do not necessarily materialise. It is suggested that simplistic dichotomies such as 'central' and 'peripheral' are less useful in the context of the multi-nodal South African city, and that planners should employ a more nuanced set of measures to assess the costs and the benefits associated with any particular housing development and its associated transport implications. en
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dc.identifier.citation Venter, C, Biermann, S & Van Ryneveld, M 2004,'Low-cost housing location in South African cities : empirical findings on costs and benefits', Paper presented to the 23rd Annual Southern African Transport Conference, South Africa, 12 - 15 July. en
dc.identifier.isbn 1920017232
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/5721
dc.language eng
dc.language.iso en en
dc.publisher SATC en
dc.relation.ispartof SATC 2004
dc.rights University of Pretoria en
dc.subject Transport en
dc.subject Low-cost housing en
dc.subject.lcsh Transportation -- South Africa -- Congresses
dc.subject.lcsh Housing development -- South Africa en
dc.subject.lcsh Housing and state -- South Africa en
dc.subject.lcsh Housing -- South Afrca -- Sociological aspects en
dc.subject.lcsh Housing -- Economic aspects -- South Africa en
dc.title Low-cost housing location in South African cities : empirical findings on costs and benefits en
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