Economic heterogeneity and the return of the central city

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dc.contributor.author Simone, A.
dc.contributor.editor Bakker, Karel A.
dc.contributor.other African Perspectives Conference Proceedings
dc.coverage.spatial Africa
dc.date.accessioned 2017-04-19T10:58:37Z
dc.date.available 2017-04-19T10:58:37Z
dc.date.created 2017
dc.date.issued 2010
dc.description.abstract Notions of the ‘central’ – as a dense core – have dominated the sense that urbanisation is replete with the possibilities of accessibility, concentration, efficiency, and productive power. The city was thought to culminate in a centre, an almost mystical gravitational pull that would pull materials and bodies into its regard. If there were any doubt as to the existence of such an overarching organizational force, its location was marked with excess – as the physical dimension of the built environment and valuations of all kinds would inflate. In some respects the affirmation of a centre as far as cities are concerned would prove somewhat counter-intuitive to urbanization processes seemingly more inclined to disperse, multiply and fragment rather than gather up. Distinctions between a clearly discernible centre and periphery, and other such gradations, historically have proven ambiguous as indicators of a capacity to make things happen. Centres have always seemed unduly aided by various administrative sleights of hand, things that would seem to slow down rather than quicken urbanized relations (Pacione 2009; Parker 2006; Soja 2000). en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorship Department of Culture, Delegation of the Flemish Government in South Africa, Embassy of Belgium en_ZA
dc.description.uri https://africanperspectivesconference.wordpress.com/
dc.format.extent 8 pages en_ZA
dc.format.medium PDF en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation Simone, A 2010, 'Economic heterogeneity and the return of the central city', African Perspectives Conference Proceedings, 25-28 September 2009. en_ZA
dc.identifier.isbn 978-0-620-49356-7
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/59981
dc.language.iso en en_ZA
dc.publisher Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria en_ZA
dc.rights Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria © 2010 en_ZA
dc.subject Architecture en_ZA
dc.subject Heterogeneity en_ZA
dc.subject.lcsh Architecture--Africa
dc.title Economic heterogeneity and the return of the central city en_ZA
dc.type Conference paper en_ZA


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