Malene Campbell

University of the Free State | ufs · Department of Urban and Regional Planning

This chapter examines the various transactional and supplementary strategies adopted by migrants on the margins to access much-coveted land. Situated in transnational theory, the study is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Lydiate, a peri-urban informal settlement of Norton town, a secondary city in Zimbabwe. The study revealed that left alone, mar...

Kimberley was established in 1871 when the first diamond was found in the Kimberley region and then in 2013, the construction of Sol Plaatje University started, and in 2014, they enrolled their first students. Therefore, this study will determine the impact of studentification on Kimberley's sustainable planning and development. Studentification ca...

The growth of cities has attracted significant attention as it is becoming evident that influential agglomeration forces are strengthening cities’ roles as the drivers of economic growth. A greater population will be living in urban areas than rural regions. Growth in population and migration of people have implications on demographic trends for fu...

However, the threat of global warming means that the world is now looking for cleaner forms of energy. The pressure for cleaner forms of energy comes from the Paris Agreement, which compels signatories to limit greenhouse gases. This chapter discusses the practical consequences of mine decline and closure. The chapter highlights the need to address...

Informal settlements and mining development often go hand-in-hand in South Africa. This co-relationship results from policies to dismantle hostels and mining villages by shifting the responsibility from the mining companies to individual households and local governments. Attempts to address historical problems have created their own problems. This...

Universities worldwide have seen an expansion of students. We surveyed 1,193 students at the University of the Free State and conducted interviews and focus groups to better understand the factors that contribute to housing satisfaction. Satisfaction depended on a range of environmental factors, particularly noise levels, rules, security, privacy,...

The authors analysed the current situation and considered future scenarios. Achieving a just transition will be difficult. Several reasons contribute to this. First, neoliberalism is a specific phase of economic development and is socially embedded in society (see Chapter 1). Policymakers need to take both these arguments into account to counter th...

Coal and Energy in South Africa: Considering a Just Transition investigates the consequences of shifting social responsibilities, new inequalities and the sustainability concerns created by the likely energy transition in Africa to end the fossil-fuel era. Focusing on the local realities in a growing coal and energy town of South Africa, Emalahleni...

This book forms part of a larger research project at the University of the Free State (UFS) in South Africa that is investigating the consequences of mining for local communities and mining towns. The book analyses the current situation in Emalahleni and considers the likelihood of a just transition across a range of fields. The case study of the m...

In August 2012, the South African police shot 34 mineworkers at Marikana outside Rustenburg. The mineworkers had been involved in a dispute with Lonmin about their wages, work environment and living conditions. It took this tragedy to focus the world’s attention on the intersection between the mines and the community in the South African platinum b...

The Chapter investigates the quality of mining companies' reporting. The chapter discusses how the mining companies that operate in the Rustenburg area, use reporting for impression management and how the this reporting is not aligned to the impression of the local communities.

The term ‘studentification’ is used to describe the socio-spatial implications of students occupying housing in the suburbs near the universities. Our paper looks at how studentification is managed in South Africa, where rising student numbers have caused conflict with other residents. We show that despite a history of segregation and low densities...

The chapter contributes to the ongoing debates concerning studentification as an emerging urban policy agenda in university cities. On-campus accommodation shortages compel students to find accommodation in the private sector. This chapter explores the opportunities and constraints of off-campus student housing and its influence on the spatial form...

Several studies have investigated the extinction of urban public open spaces in South Africa. However, a fixation by such studies on well-established primary cities has been noticed, whilst limited attention has been paid to emerging major cities. In addition, findings from these studies have resulted from the perspectives of either planning entiti...

Urban open spaces are becoming extinct and spatial patterns of urban land use are severely affected. The changes in land use and occupancy patterns on urban open spaces have led to value conflicts in terms of the quest for sustainable neighbourhoods. This affects the value of urban open spaces, land use management, preservation and sustainability o...

The measurement of the quality of public space is important in spatial planning as a first step towards improved urban quality. It would seem as if city builders sometimes use their subjective judgements of place quality through incomprehensive sensory tools and not the users' sensory experience and aspirations. Based on the multisensory experience...

Rapid changes in land use and occupancy patterns of urban open spaces have led to value conflicts in terms of the quest for sustainable neighbourhoods. Urban open spaces are becoming extinct due to rapid urbanization, hence affecting the spatial patterns of urban land use. Such gradual disappearance has resulted from intensity of land use for resid...

Postmasburg, a small mining town, has been an agricultural centre for the past 120 years, the iron ore mining being the only diversifying factor to the local economy. Mining endeavours resulted in the traditional boom-town cycle in Postmasburg over the past ten years with one significant exception to most of the rural towns in South Africa, which e...

The city of Witbank in the eMalahleni Local Government, or municipality as it is referred to in South Africa, and its economy are experiencing rapid growth. The growth is largely as a result of coal mining and associated activities such as power generation and the metal industry, which attracts an inflow of migrants to the area. The paper discusses...

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Rural urban migration results in rural decline as well as in congested cities, but how can towns avoid this fate and also intercept these migrants on their way to the cities in search of perceived better opportunities? Tourism development can play a central role in the development of rural areas in South Africa, and Clarens is a success story in th...

Low-income households earning less than R3 500 (about 175 GBP) per month can apply to the South African government, through the National Housing Subsidy, for fully subsidised houses. An objective of this subsidy is to enable low-income households' participation in the formal housing market, but the beneficiaries received houses without title deeds....

Emalahleni’s history has for more than 100 years been intertwined with the coal mining industry and Witbank is the main urban area in the municipality. This history of coal, in turn, is closely related to the country’s energy needs. Dependent on coal, a small but significant steel industry has been established in the area. Population growth has res...

Rapid urbanisation has dominated the world over the past decades, with more than half of the world population living in urban areas. While there have been interventions to deal with this rapid urban growth, it has had various negative impacts, such as extreme poverty, insufficient infrastructure and services, environmental deterioration, and inform...

The investigation responds to the low ebb in racial property ownership desegregation discourse in South Africa. The paper provides a review of recent desegregation studies in South Africa and its empirical reflection in the secondary city of Bloemfontein. The investigation supports current discourses focused on desegregation of residential prope...

Accommodation shortages on campus force students to find accommodation in the private sector. These shortages result in single family residents increasingly being targeted for redevelopment into student housing. Studentification is a process where the original residents in the vicinity of tertiary institutions are gradually displaced due to an i...

The South African urban settlement distortions are a legacy of colonial, apartheid and modernist systems, which applied housing as an instrument of segregation and economic deprivation. This has led to South African cities being characterised by segregation, poor urban economic performance, sprawl and low densities. The 1994 Housing White Paper pri...

Regional Planning is a discipline occupied with the distribution of economic resources between regions in an effort to achieve certain predetermined regional and national objectives. A major objective of Regional Planning is to encourage economic dispersal and to counteract the process of isolation and disintegration of marginalised areas. This res...

Rapid urbanisation, combined with uncontrolled urban growth in urban areas ill prepared for these challenges leads to urban sprawl. Urban sprawl is constantly on the increase, and the consequences are the ineffective use of land and urban infrastructure. This leads to the loss of biodiversity as well as the pushing of low-income families out onto t...

Tourism risks associated with small town development: The case of Clarens.

Our urban places, villages, towns, cities and metropolises are built slowly and by many hands. Planning them is not an exact art and the results vary: the importance of man’s primary habitation is that in the end through observation, anticipation of change and speculation we must plan wherever possible to improve the eventual outcome for us all....

The objective of this research was to investigate the relationship between locality of subsidised housing and migrant labour. This paper aims to show how the provision of subsidised housing in South Africa and in particular Philippolis as a case study does not restrict residents’ mobility in terms of job opportunities outside the areas where they r...

This paper explores the expected economic and social impact of the 2010 FIFA World Cup on South Africa. It investigates the justifi cation for spending of public funds towards the upgrading and building of sports stadia in South Africa as a developing country, and offers an empirical survey regarding probable match attendance and ticket prices.

The current low-cost housing and residential development scenario unfolding in the Greater Johannesburg conurbation does not contribute to a more amenable and less spatially incongruous utilisation of space in the city by its residents. Sprawling, fragmented places of residence and far-removed work destinations cause severe frustration. This repres...