Learning from the experience of others: Some pointers for a growth management policy for South African cities

Abstract

Issues that should be prominently placed on an agenda for an urban growth management portion of the RDP are identified in the paper from a review of international aid agencies and United States domestic experience, and are briefly described. These issues are:
• policies and programmes must be interlinked and form part of a holistic overall strategy
• spatial segmentation of residential areas must be reduced
• the resource allocation question “efficiency vs need” must be re­solved
• urban productivity must be im­proved
• appropriate information and model­ling systems must be utilised.