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Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.
-Jane Jacobs
Cities
As we know them
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Centres of opportunity and economic prosperity
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Magnets for young creative talents
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Engines for knowledge economy
SARChi Chair for
INCLUSIVE CITIES
by Hangwelani Hope Magidimisha
About
SARChi Chair for Inclusive Cities
Prof Magidimisha is SARChI chair for Inclusive Cities is funded by National Research Council and South African City Networks. It is Hosted by the University of KwaZulu-Natal , under the school of Development studies and Built Environment Cluster. The SARChI Research Chair serves as a forum for initiatives in research for Prof Magidimisha, Academics within the school, postdoctoral fellows, postgraduate students and others working with her.
The South African urban space provides a unique point of entry and discussion on the inclusive city in the sense that it goes beyond the conceptualization of urban space through the lenses of urbanization – but incorporates massive restructuring of urban spaces with the intention of ameliorating negativities arising out of the colonial and apartheid governments. This, in turn, complicates and repositions the debate beyond the mere articulation of principles of inclusivity by providing a platform for redefining these principles in the context of local dynamics. In the process, new domains of inclusivity are explored while ramification of the existing domains is redefined. This proposed research recognizes, acknowledges and builds on existing work done by other researchers and organizations on the inclusive city which focuses on:
Spatial Inclusion – which focuses on accessibility to affordable land and housing.
Economic Inclusion – which focuses on accessibility to opportunities associated with economic development, empowerment and sharing in rising prosperity.
Social Inclusion – which rests on the need for individuals’ access to their rights and participation in governance issues that promote their existence. The point of departure in this chair rests on the premises that the dimensions of the inclusive city outlined above fail to capture in detail vulnerable clusters of society (being women, children and the ageing); the minority clusters (i.e. the blind, the disabled) and migrants. In addition, it fails to recognize the increase of spatial inequality driven by racial and class differences – a factor that saw an increase in community violence and protests. These gaps can be clustered into four selected domains which are:
- Women and children domain
- People Living with Disability domain
- Migrant domain
- Race and class domain.
Case Studies
City of Tshwane, Ekirhuleni, eThekwini...
Puzzle for Inclusive Cities
Questions to be answered
Domains
Domains and Case Studies
Inclusive Cities
Some of the Case Studies
City of Tshwane
Ekurhuleni
City of Johannesburg
Mangaung
eThekwini
Buffalo City
Nelson Mandela Bay
City of Cape Town
Puzzle
For Inclusive Cities
Questions to answer
Who Is excluded? Why and How are they excluded? Who suppose to include them?
How do we design inclusive cities?
How does one city compare to another in terms of inclusivity?
What are the lived experience of the excluded domains?
What are the domain specific indicators for inclusive cities?
Who are the stakeholders needed to Champion inclusive city agenda?
Quotes
"Thus in poor and marginalised communities, outbreaks of the virus are likely to go undetected for a longer time and smoulder and spread. In such circumstances, we will all be doomed - coronavirus does not discriminate."
Prof. Hope MagidimishaSARChi Chair 
If our cities are sleepless, planners cannot afford to slumber
Prof. Hope MagidimishaSARChi Chair
A city with technology is just a pinch step to been smart.
Prof. Hope MagidimishaSARChi Chair
Who are city migrants? Are non-city based indigenous less migrants?
Prof. Hope MagidimishaSARChi Chair
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