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The advent of 'grand apar<strong>the</strong>id' imposed a <strong>spatial</strong> (il)logic that force-removed blacks from<strong>the</strong> inner city areas of urban coping. Sophiatown, for example, made way for 'Triomf',effectively replacing one type of urban dweller trying to engage with <strong>the</strong> urban system withano<strong>the</strong>r (in this case <strong>the</strong> urbanising 'Poor White' Afrikaner) and consigning <strong>the</strong> displacedblack population to <strong>the</strong> 'urban waiting-rooms' outside of <strong>the</strong> urban system itself.Over <strong>the</strong> years, displaced urban blacks and <strong>the</strong> influx of urbanising blacks were consolidatedinto a marginalised urban periphery with nei<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> infrastructural capacity nor urbanconnectivity to generate a local economy nor become part of <strong>the</strong> greater 'urbancommonwealth'. Ideology had worked a profound influence on <strong>the</strong> <strong>spatial</strong> dysfunctionof a previously robust urban system. To <strong>the</strong> extent that relatively wealthy 'white' lowdensitysuburbia also burgeoned in those parts of <strong>the</strong> periphery not designated as 'nonwhite'Group Areas, a different edge condition and urban fringe arose from that definedby <strong>the</strong> classical north American models.Figure 2-12: A dysfunctional <strong>spatial</strong> system caused by apar<strong>the</strong>idSECTION 2: THE GSDF AS A CONCEPTGAUTENG SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK 2011GAUTENG GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY26

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