Human Settlements Review - Parliamentary Monitoring Group

Human Settlements Review, Volume 1, Number 1, 2010
The prospect of envisioning the informal
sector as a laboratory for engaging questions
of community building, as opposed to that of a
problem of slum clearance, we may discover
new and poetic modes of spatial production
that deliver socio-economic as well as physical
shelter benefits.
References
Appadurai, Arjan [1996] Modernity at Large. Minnesota Univ. Press, Minneapolis.
Foster, Hal [] The anti-aesthetic – Essays on Post Modern Culture.
Frascari, Marco [1984] The Tell-The-Tale Detail; Via 7: The Building of Architecture, pp23-47;
University of Pennsylvania/Rizzoli, NYC.
Le Febvre, Henri [1991]; The Production of Space; Blackwell, London.
Low, Iain [1998] Building and self-reliance; in Apartheid, architecture and after; Judin, H & Vladislavic,
I [eds.] NAi, Rotterdam.
Memmi, Albert [1965] The Colonizer and the Colonised, transl. Greenfield, Howard; Earthscan,
London.
Venturi, Robert [1965]
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture; MoMA, NYC
Watson, Vanessa [2002] Change and continuity in the planning of Cape Town; Routledge, London.
Endnotes
i. DoHS introduced government’s new Sustainable Human Settlement / Breaking New
Ground [SHS/BNG] housing policy in 2004.
ii. Generally the emphasis is on both the social and physical, sometimes the political, but
seldom, if ever, on the economic needs required for sustaining community development.
iii. Memmi, Albert; The Colonizer and the Colonised;
iv. That is a non-western / non-modern one
v. Reconstruction and Development Program [RDP]; Growth Employment and Redistribution
[GEAR]; [ASGIAS], Extended Public Work Programs [EPWP]
vi. The notion of competing rationalities and the difficulty of conciliation is a key tenet
formulated in Watson’s PhD inquiry which critique’s planning processes in the City of Cape
Town; Watson, Vanessa [200X] Change and continuity in the planning of Cape Town
vii. Appadurai, Arjan [1996] ‘The Production of Locality’ in Modernity at Large; Minnesota
University Press, Minneapolis.
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