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The bright lights of city regions: Assumptions, realities and implications of changing population dynamics: Zooming in on the Gauteng city region

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dc.contributor.author Pieterse, Amy
dc.date.accessioned 2015-08-19T11:04:53Z
dc.date.available 2015-08-19T11:04:53Z
dc.date.issued 2014-10
dc.identifier.citation Pieterse, A. The bright lights of city regions: Assumptions, realities and implications of changing population dynamics: Zooming in on the Gauteng city region. 6th South African Planning Institute Conference, Durban, South Africa, 19 - 22 October 2014, pp 187-216 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8076
dc.description Paper presented at the 6th South African Planning Institute Conference, CSIR, Durban, South Africa, 19 - 22 October 2014 en_US
dc.description.abstract It is well known that the city regions attract migrants from across the country because of their roles as economic engines and job baskets in South Africa. To address urbanisation implications it is imperative to better understand some of the assumptions about the nature and dynamics of population growth and internal migration across the South African landscape, and in particular within the Gauteng city region as the largest of the city regions. Three key issues emerged that are related to assumptions of migration and urbanisation. Firstly, even though poverty has been perceived as largely a rural issue, the urbanisation of poverty is in fact occurring at a large scale and city regions, particularly the Gauteng city region, is dealing with an enormous, and increasing number of poor people. Secondly, the attractiveness of city regions has caused a great increase in the proportion of young people and young work seekers. And lastly, that the biggest proportion of migration flows is occurring between metropolitan areas and that migration is not only a rural-urban process as generally believed. The other issues that emerged and that need further investigation is the reality of circular migration, the effect of changing household sizes and the ability of city regions and other settlements to absorb newcomers. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher CSIR en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Workflow;13747
dc.subject Population change en_US
dc.subject Poverty en_US
dc.subject Migration en_US
dc.title The bright lights of city regions: Assumptions, realities and implications of changing population dynamics: Zooming in on the Gauteng city region
dc.type Conference Presentation en_US
dc.identifier.apacitation Pieterse, A. (2014). The bright lights of city regions: Assumptions, realities and implications of changing population dynamics: Zooming in on the Gauteng city region. CSIR. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8076 en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitation Pieterse, Amy. "The bright lights of city regions: Assumptions, realities and implications of changing population dynamics: Zooming in on the Gauteng city region." (2014): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8076 en_ZA
dc.identifier.vancouvercitation Pieterse A, The bright lights of city regions: Assumptions, realities and implications of changing population dynamics: Zooming in on the Gauteng city region; CSIR; 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8076 . en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Conference Presentation AU - Pieterse, Amy AB - It is well known that the city regions attract migrants from across the country because of their roles as economic engines and job baskets in South Africa. To address urbanisation implications it is imperative to better understand some of the assumptions about the nature and dynamics of population growth and internal migration across the South African landscape, and in particular within the Gauteng city region as the largest of the city regions. Three key issues emerged that are related to assumptions of migration and urbanisation. Firstly, even though poverty has been perceived as largely a rural issue, the urbanisation of poverty is in fact occurring at a large scale and city regions, particularly the Gauteng city region, is dealing with an enormous, and increasing number of poor people. Secondly, the attractiveness of city regions has caused a great increase in the proportion of young people and young work seekers. And lastly, that the biggest proportion of migration flows is occurring between metropolitan areas and that migration is not only a rural-urban process as generally believed. The other issues that emerged and that need further investigation is the reality of circular migration, the effect of changing household sizes and the ability of city regions and other settlements to absorb newcomers. DA - 2014-10 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Population change KW - Poverty KW - Migration LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2014 T1 - The bright lights of city regions: Assumptions, realities and implications of changing population dynamics: Zooming in on the Gauteng city region TI - The bright lights of city regions: Assumptions, realities and implications of changing population dynamics: Zooming in on the Gauteng city region UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8076 ER - en_ZA


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