Urbanisation: South Africa's Challenge by Derik Gelderblom & Pieter Kok

Abstract

Tis book by Derik Gelderblom & Pieter Kok consists of two volumes. The English text is accessible for the Afrikaans speaking student completing a master's degree in planning. The publisher's date is 1994 and the purpose, according to the authors. is to bring to the surface the human as­pects entrenched in the urbanisation process and to bring up to date a former publication of theirs: Verstedeliking in Suid-Afrika: perspektiewe op die dinamika en begeleiding van die proses (1989) (Urbanisation in South Africa: per­spectives on the dynamics and the accompanying pro­cess), as occasioned by the "many prominent changes which have occurred in the country recently" (K&G, 1994, p.ii).