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8. Conclusion

verfasst von : Richard de Satgé, Vanessa Watson

Erschienen in: Urban Planning in the Global South

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter summarises the theoretical and practical implications of approaching planning from the perspectives outlined in the book. We ask why it so frequently happens that urban megaprojects in contexts such as this one fail, and we draw on a wider literature which argues that such megaprojects are often the product of ‘high politics’ which seek to make a national statement of technical prowess or social significance. When megaprojects are conceived for their symbolic value and to ‘rebrand’ national policy shifts, it is inevitable that they come into conflict with ‘on the ground’ and highly variable and messy realities of those designated as beneficiaries. This chapter therefore asks if the failure of megaprojects is inevitable, or if there might have been a different approach taken by government to addressing the issues of Langa. Some broad pointers are put forward to suggest possible alternative approaches.
The chapter then follows the trajectory of the retroductive case study method to ask how the Langa case can ‘speak back’ to theory and help to build a southern theorising project in planning. Five theoretical propositions are put forward, generated by the Langa case, but surfacing concepts which remain to be tested in further case study work elsewhere and which start to build up ‘meso-level’ theorising which may provide insights in other settings in the global South and beyond.

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Fußnoten
1
The introduction to Mark Gevisser’s biography of Thabo Mbeki recalls how the former president cited the Langston Hughes poem Harlem which asks “What happens to a dream deferred?” in order to illustrate the dangers in “the crisis of expectation of black South Africans who found themselves often with even less than they had before and thus on the brink of a dangerous explosion” (2007, xxxi).
 
2
In July 2014 Langa was the site of large and violent protests which signalled widespread dissatisfaction with housing allocations and fragmented development initiatives. Similar protests flared up again in 2016.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Conclusion
verfasst von
Richard de Satgé
Vanessa Watson
Copyright-Jahr
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69496-2_8