Ruth Massey - Urban Geography in South Africa: Perspectives and Theory

The Urban Perspectives from the Global South brings together a wide variety of urban scholars under one series title and is purposefully multi-disciplinary. The publications in this series are theoretically informed and explore different facets of varying sized urban places. This series addresses the broad developmental issues of urbanization in developing world countries and provides a distinctive African focus on the subject. It examines a variety of themes relating to urban development in the global South including: city economic development, issues of local governance, urban planning, and the impact of multi-ethnic and multicultural formations in urban affairs. The series aims to extend current international urban debates and offer new insights into the development of urban places in the Global South from a number of disciplines including geography, sociology, political science, economics, as well as urban studies. A special focus of the series is the challenges of urbanization and cities in Africa.

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Both editors would like to thank all those who contributed chapters to this book as well as the peer reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions which have added to the academic rigour of this publication.

Ruth Massey would like to acknowledge Prof. Ashley Gunter for his support in the development of this book. She would also like to recognise her mentors over the years who have contributed to her knowledge of South Africas urban spaces. Dr. Massey would like to thank Daniel Spence for his support as well as James and Lynell Massey and her wider family.

Ashley Gunter would like to thank Dr. Ruth Massey for her vision and insight into the need for a book of this nature; she has been the driving force on this work and par excellence. He would also like to thank family, friends and colleagues for their support over the years.