Spatial planning and locational decision-making for public housing interventions in South Africa (resubmission)

多年来，南非市政当局不得不生活在规划能力的法律不确定性和规划法律的重叠中，这促进了不同的规则和制度。市政当局面临着居住在非正式定居点的人们对低收入住房的巨大需求。与此同时，上级政府施加压力，要求实施并不总是符合地方优先事项的住房计划。在此背景下，本研究希望增加对参与土地和住房治理的行为者（政府内外）的学术知识，以及在此过程中所引用的（正式和非正式的）规则和制度。它将确定选址决策在多大程度上受到法律要求的规划工具（如空间发展框架和“住房章节”）的指导。分析性治理概念将用于解释具体规划实践背后的结构和文化因素。来自不同省份的案例研究涵盖了非正式住区升级和新住房开发，有望为空间规划系统的比较研究做出贡献。通过将规划实践的治理和绩效分析联系起来，该研究还将增加关于新兴经济体空间规划适当方法的国际辩论，这些新兴经济体的特点是巨大的经济差距和文化差异。

For many years, South African municipalities had to live with legaluncertainties about planning competencies and an overlay of planninglaws, which promoted different rules and institutions. Municipalitiesare faced with a huge demand for low-income housing by peopleliving in informal settlements. At the same time higher levels ofgovernment exert pressure to implement housing programmes whichdo not always match local priorities. Against this backdrop, the studywants to increase academic knowledge about the actors (inside andoutside of government), who are involved in the governance of landand housing, and about the (formal and informal) rules andinstitutions, which are invoked in the process. It will establish to whatdegree locational decisions are guided by legally required planninginstruments like spatial development frameworks and "housingchapters". Analytical governance concepts will be used to explain bothstructural and cultural factors behind concrete planning practices.Case studies from different provinces covering both informalsettlement upgrading and new housing development are expected tocontribute to comparative research into spatial planning systems. Bylinking governance and performance analyses of planning practice thestudy will also add to the international debate about appropriateapproaches to spatial planning in emerging economies, which arecharacterized by huge economic disparity and cultural difference.