The fragmented city.

• Main Author: Wolters, M. J.
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10539/26630

A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Architecture University of the Witwatersrand in fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Masters in Urban Design. === Johannesburg, like many other major cities in Third World nations is facing major urban influx is causing extreme pressure on the existing social and economic fabric. This in tum has resulted in fragmentation on a number of different levels - social, political, economic and physical. The spatial organisation of the city appears to be incapable of coping with this fragmentation. The means or method needs to be discovered where the fragmented elements of the city can be reunited and absorbed into the city system. This dissertation seeks to discover how the dichonomy of first world settlement and third world settlement can be resolved using tools, either yet to be discovered. or already inherently within the system. It seeks to understand the relatloashlp between the existing urban economy and social structures and the new informal economy and social structures that re emerging. What is the common element that binds these diverse aspects toqerher into something that creates a new urban core. While the third world cities are made up of remarkably diverse ex-colonial and neo-colonial populations, there is a certain commonality that binds them all together. The commonality that binds. (Abbreviation abstract) === Andrew Chakane 2019