South Africa Doesn't Need New Cities - It Needs to Focus On Fixing What It's Got TC_Africa: SouthAfrica
In April 2022, former opposition leader Mmusi Maimane argued thatNew cities are a catchy idea. But that doesn't make them a good one.
What would it take to create a sustainable new city without bankrupting the national fiscus? Are they a viable prospect or white elephants in the making?New cities may be appealing since newer, smarter, more sustainable infrastructure can be put in place. But in South Africa, this expenditure competes with the need to improve the deteriorating infrastructure of existing cities, which do in fact have the capacity to accommodate projected urban growth for decades to come.
While carefully planned new city development may play a role in South Africa's urban future, it would be a critical error to divert attention and resources from the country's primary urban challenges.Most large cities globally have evolved over long periods of time, responding to growth in the local economy.
Western countries turned away from new town development but, from around the 1990s, new city development gained momentum in other parts of the world, includingIn China, for example, new cities were built to accommodate some of the additional 590 million people in cities from the 1980s. Saudi Arabia has an astonishing plan to build aElsewhere there were three recent waves of new city development. Just prior to theMost faltered.
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