Gaborone |
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Authors: | Anthony Kent Horatius Ikgopoleng |
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Affiliation: | a International Urban and Environmental Management Program, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476, Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia b Department of Architecture and Planning, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, P Bag UB 0061, Gaborone, Botswana |
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Abstract: | The city of Gaborone, like Botswana, the nation of which it is capital, is extraordinary in African terms. Here is a city lacking in mass poverty, extensive squatter settlements or recurrent civil strife: for all appearances, an orderly, affluent urban area. For these reasons, it is an important example of how planning authorities in a developing nation have managed urban growth. Gaborone has had opportunities other African cities have not. Thus it invites questions as to how these have been managed and expressed. A key issue which emerges is the co-location of informal, traditional and modern forms of land allocation both within Gaborone City and the peri-urban regions with which it is increasingly connected. This throws up a number of issues, including the inconsistent way in which planning authorities have managed this ‘balancing act’. |
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Keywords: | Gaborone Botswana Peri-urban Tribal land Housing Civil society |
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