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Title: | Local government restructuring, growth coalitions, and the development process in the Durban Functional Region, c. 1984-1994 |
Author: | Pillay, Udesh |
Year: | 1994 |
Periodical: | Urban Forum |
Volume: | 5 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 69-86 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | South Africa Natal |
Subjects: | regional development local government |
External link: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03036686 |
Abstract: | Recent developments within South African society would seem to suggest that the politics of urban and regional development have been overtaken by events occurring at a national level. However, many efforts have been undertaken by cities in South Africa to stimulate local economic development, through the implementation of growth coalitions or economic develoment forums. This paper examines some of the major events influencing the development terrain in the locality of Durban (Natal) in the period 1984-1994. It begins with a discussion of failed central State attempts to restructure metropolitan political forms in this region in the mid-to-late 1980s, focusing on the Regional Services Council (RSC) debacle. Next, it reviews initiatives undertaken in the early 1990s by influential local actors in the Durban Functional Region (DFR) in the wake of serious economic decline in the region, paying attention, amongst others, to 'Operation Jumpstart', a local growth coalition (a type of local public-private partnership formed to promote economic growth and effect reconstruction), and the launching of the Durban Functional Region Development Forum. Bibliogr., notes. |