This presentation was submitted at the AFRICITIES 2000 Summit to provide an Introduction and context

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This presentation was submitted at the AFRICITIES
2000 Summit to provide an Introduction and
context for the debate on the theme Transport and
Mobility - Planning, Managing and financing of
the Service -focusing on socio-economic
conditions of urban transport systems and how the
system can be restructured to help in funding for
urban infrastructure and services in cities today
in the context limited resources toward
sustainable urban development.
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FINANCING LOCAL GOVERNMENT FOR DEMOGRACY AND
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
AFRICAN CITIES SUMMIT 2000
WINDHOEK, NAMIBIA, 15 - 20 MAY 2000
TECHNICAL SESSION - WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2000. 9.00
AM
CONCEPT, DEVELOPMENT OR RE-ENGINEERING OF URBAN
TRANSPORT SYSTEMS
CASE STUDY GREATER METROPOLITAN AREA OF CAPE
TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
BY MRS MADDIE MAZAZA (PRINCIPAL TOWN REGIONAL
PLANNER)
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CURRENT URBAN PROBLEMS

• Associated with the way cities and their urban
  systems have
• been allowed to develop
• PROBLEMS INCLUDE
• - Inadequate Financial resources
• - Unemployment
• - Homelessness
• - Rapid growth of informal settlements
• - Poverty
• - Crime
• - Unco-ordinated urban development
• IN CAPE TOWN (SOUTH AFRICA)
• Exacerbated by apartheid planning and
  development
• policies

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CHANGES IN THE URBAN SYSTEM REQUIRE PARADIGM
SHIFTS
How We View the City
a
System Thinking Approach
CITY AS A SYSTEM
CURRENT SITUATION

• As a geographic locus of population
• concentration Economic activities
• take place
• Collection of functions and services
• Each component managed individually
• with some form of co-ordinationary
• framework

• Interrelationships of components
• of the city
• Specific relationships for specific
• urban areas
• Change requires planned intervention
• through assessment of policies
• Alignment of policy areas strategies

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DEVELOPMENTAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT
b

• a Dynamic way in which local government works
  together
• with local communities to find sustainable
  ways to meet
• needs and improve quality of life
• FOCUS
• - Poverty Alleviation and Inequality
• - Economic Growth
• - Governance
• - Participation
• - Integration, Co-ordination and Holism

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RE-ENGINEERING OF URBAN TRANSPORT SYSTEMS

• NEEDS TO OCCUR AT 3 LEVELS

• Within the transport sector itself
• Between transport and land use planning
• as land use is the key determinant of
• demand for movement
• Between transport and development planning
• to achieve broader development aims

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CAPE METROPOLITAN AREA
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LOCALITY
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CAPE METROPOLITAN AREA
VISION

• Meeting basic needs
• Improve quality of life
• Poverty alleviation
• Reduce inequality
• Integrated urban development

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IMPACT OF APARTHEID POLICIES

• CAPE TOWN CLASSIC APARTHEID CITY
• Structural problems
• Low density residential development on the
• periphery of the city urban sprawl
• Concentration of opportunities in more
  affluent
• areas
• Separation of the urban poor
• Inequitable land use structure - favors growth
• in affluent areas, fails to redistribute
• Economic Opportunities
• TRANSPORT Long trip lengths, greater demand
  for movement