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y economic processes. Lefebvre (1976) also attempted to explain how the inequalities
generated by capitalism, and encapsulated in cities, are largely accepted or ignored by
citizens. The quest of Lefebvre (1976) therefore has been to formulate a theory of urbanism
that is able to sweep away the ideological veil that enshrouds 'common-sense' understandings
ofthe urban life [www.cc.msnscache.comlcache.asp16 (2008)].
Harvey (1985) has put two dimensions - the economic and the ideological - together in an
attempt to account for the structuring of urban economic and social space by the process
associated with capital shapes both the form and organisation of cities and the consciousness
oftheir inhabitants [www.bristol.ac.uklsps/cnrpaperswordlgatedlomenyO!, (2008)].
This study acknowledges the findings ofLefebvre on urban inequalities, caused by capitalism
and manifested in cities. However, the study further explores a 'middle-ground' approach
like that ofHarvey, which seeks to reconcile the views ofthe market forces and government
intervention. The perspective adopted by this research study in Ulundi has the potential of
providing short and long term reliefto the economically marginalised as well as confidence to
the business world [www.amazon.comlphraseJequilibrium_land use, (2008»).
2.4.1 Models ofland use in cities
The study of urban land use is important to geographers as they attach significant importan(;e
to the role of accessibility in determining patterns of land use in a market economy.
However, accessibility is a relative term and to understand patterns of urban land use, we
must ask the question 'accessible to what?' This question is addressed in the discussion of
bid rent and location gradients. To begin, however, we should look at the descriptive models
urban land and examine the general patterns of urban land use that have become so important
in the study ofurban geography [www.vahoo.comlsearch/default. (2007)].
Knapp (1986) outlined factors that influence the people's choice of a location within the
urban area, whether for work or as a home. These forces can be separated into those that
cause functions to want to move outwards to the newly developing regions (the centrifugal
forces), and those that tend to draw them towards the centre (the centripetal forces).
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