Apartheid, as legislated racial separation, brought dramatic change to the South African urban scene. Race "group areas" remodelled South African cities, while the creation of "homelands," mini-states, and the "pass laws" controlling population migration constrained the process of urbanization itself.
In the mid 1980s, the old system was replaced by a new policy of "orderly urbanization," intended to accelerate the process of industrialization and cultural change by relaxing the constraints on urbanization imposed by state planning. The result was hardly an improvement: political instability rose, and a quarter of the black population were being housed in shanty towns. Today, negotiations between the nationalist government and the African National Congress are working to dissolve the old apartheid system. Yet the end of apartheid will only be the beginning of the creation of a new society.
"The Apartheid City and Beyond" contains a series of original contributions on apartheid as it affected housing, community life, settlement forms, and the servicing of the cities. Ranging from broad overviews of particular issues to local case studies, the contributors turn away from a past that is best forgotten, explaining how the cities of South Africa came to be as they are: the locus of people's present lives and a major constraint on urban forms.
Looking ahead to the post-apartheid city, they show that if the cities of South Africa are to serve the people as a whole, the accelerating process of urbanization must be brought under control and harnessed to a new purpose.

Introduction PART ONE Background 1 Dispossession, exploitation and struggle: an historical overview of South African urbanization 2 Local and regional government: from rigidity to crisis to flux PART TWO Housing and community under apartheid 3 The apartheid state and Black housing struggles 4 State intervention in housing provision in the 1980s 5 Class struggle over the built environment in Johannesburg's coloured areas 6 The 'spatial impress' of the central and local states: the Group Areas Act in Durban 7 The destruction of Clairwood: a case study on the transformation of communal living space 8 Urban (mis)management? A case study of the effects of orderly urbanization on Duncan Village PART THREE Informal settlement 9 Winterveld: an urban interface settlement on the Pretoria metropolitan fringe 10 Khayelitsha: new settlement forms in the Cape Peninsula 11 The road to 'Egoli': urbanization histories from a Johannesburg squatter settlement 12 Informal settlement: theory versus practice in KwaZulu/Natal PART FOUR Servicing the cities 13 The absorptive capacity of the informal sector in the South African city 14 Travelling under apartheid 15 Changing state policy and the Black taxi industry in Soweto 16 The Regional Services Council debacle in Durban 17 Tourism and development needs in the Durban Region 18 Urbanization and health: evidence from Cape Town PART FIVE Towards a post-apartheid city 19 The post-apartheid city: hopes, possibilities, and harsh realities 20 Urbanization and the South African city: a manifesto for change 21 Post-apartheid housing policy 22 Contradictions in the transition from urban apartheid: barriers to gentrification in Johannesburg 23 'Turning grey': how Westville was won 24 Power, space and the city: historical reflections on apartheid and post-apartheid urban orders 25 Lessons from the Harare, Zimbabwe, experience