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Alan Mabin
Researcher at University of the Witwatersrand
Publications - 39
Citations - 1023
Alan Mabin is an academic researcher from University of the Witwatersrand. The author has contributed to research in topics: Urban planning & Human geography. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 37 publications receiving 972 citations.
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Reconstructing South Africa’s cities? The making of urban planning 1900–2000
Alan Mabin,Dan Smit +1 more
TL;DR: In each major case until the present, however, the programmes of progenitors of such ideas have been overtaken by the accession to power of new regimes, at government or merely planning system level, which have co-opted the new institutions, laws, visions, systems, personnel and plans as mentioned in this paper.
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Rethinking urban South Africa
Susan Parnell,Alan Mabin +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that the implicit acceptance of race as a legitimate and primary category of inquiry has impoverished the understanding of residential segregation in the South African city of Durban. And they argue that where efforts are made to explain the emergence of a racialised urban structure, inappropriate or inadequate points of reference are involved.
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Comprehensive Segregation: The Origins of the Group Areas Act and Its Planning Apparatuses
TL;DR: The origins of the Group Areas Act have been the subject of some speculations but no serious research; the same applies to examination of the specific nature of the changes which it introduced.
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Low-income rental housing: are South African cities different?:
TL;DR: In this paper, surveys conducted in two low-income settlements in Cape Town and Johannesburg show that a significant proportion of the black urban population in South Africa rent accommodation and that the rental housing in these areas is substandard.
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Labour, capital, class struggle and the origins of residential segregation in Kimberley, 1880–1920
TL;DR: In this paper, the origins of these features of the built environment are traced to the particular economic and social circumstances of rapid industrialization, recession and class struggle in Kimberley in the 1880s.