Megaprojects and urban visions: Johannesburg's Corridors of Freedom and Modderfontein
Megaprojects and urban visions: Johannesburg's Corridors of Freedom and Modderfontein
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10.1353/trn.2017.0024
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发表时间：
2017-01-01
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0.7
通讯作者：
Todes, Alison
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作者：
Ballard, Richard;Dittgen, Romain;Todes, Alison
本文的目的是研究在约翰内斯堡的两个大型项目中阐述的城市愿景。通过约翰内斯堡市政府领导的自由走廊项目和上海开发商发起的Modderfontein项目，我们发现大型项目的意图差异很大，尽管经常有类似的言论。我们还表明，参与者和利益比最初出现的更多样化，结果不像自信的公开声明所暗示的那样确定。每个项目都承诺对城市形态产生独特和积极的影响，自由走廊项目试图通过鼓励城市现有地区转型的长期进程，使沿着交通走廊的城市使用更加密集和多样化。相比之下，Modderfontein旨在成为南非最大的私人主导的住宅，商业和工业开发项目之一，并将在以前未开发的土地上进行。这两个项目都是可持续性和包容性的语言，尽管这两个项目都不可能解决豪登省最贫困人口的住房需求。这篇文章强调，这些项目有时被武断地纳入各级政府的政策框架。随着豪登省政府以新城市的名义定义了大型项目，它热情地支持莫德方丹，并将自由广场排除在其最初的利益框架之外。
The purpose of this article is to examine the urban visions articulated in two large projects in Johannesburg. Using the Corridors of Freedom project, led by the Johannesburg metropolitan municipality, and Modderfontein, initiated by a Shanghai-based developer, we show that the intention of large projects varies significantly despite often similar rhetoric. We show also that the actors and interests involved are more diverse than may initially appear, and that the outcomes are less certain than the confident public pronouncements suggest. Each project promises to make a distinct and positive impact on the morphology of the city, with the Corridors of Freedom project attempting to densify and diversify urban use along transit corridors through a long-term process of encouraging transformation within existing areas of the city. Modderfontein, by contrast, is intended as one of the largest privately-led residential, commercial and industrial developments in South Africa and would occur on previously undeveloped land. Both projects speak languages of sustainability and of inclusion, although neither is likely to address the housing needs of the poorest populations in Gauteng Province. The article underscores the sometimes arbitrary uptake of these projects into policy frameworks at different levels of government. With the Gauteng provincial government having defined megaprojects in terms of new cities, it enthusiastically endorsed Modderfontein, and left Corridors of Freedom somewhat outside of its initial frame of interest.