Alternatiewe benaderings vir die beplanning van verspreide stede

Abstract

In published literature the term dispersed city has been used to refer to a group of urban nodes in close proximity to each other, separated by tracts of non-urban land, and functioning as a single urban entity. Although each urban unit would possess certain common ubiquitous func­tions, such as those associated with the provision of day-to-day necessities and retail services, each would have some major specialized activity. The functional specialization is complementary rather than competitive. The dispersed city is characterised by a process of evolution, which, when left unchecked, could result in the eventual filling in of the non-urban open areas between urban units. Thus, the problem confronting the planner is whether the dispersed form of urban development should be preserved by effective zoning, or whether the filling-in process should be stimulated to eventually result in the merging of the urban units. This article deals with examples of the two approaches.
*This article is written in Afrikaans.