Gated communities in South Africa:The challenge for spatial planning and land use management

摘要

Gated communities have proliferated in South Africa since 1994. However, they cause a number of problems and raise serious concerns regarding spatial fragmentation, social exclusion, citizenship and democracy. This paper investigates their implications for spatial planning and land use management in post-apartheid South Africa. It concludes that it is irrelevant to consider gated communities as a meta concept. The paper calls for different approaches to different types of gated communities in order to begin to address some of the contemporary challenges.