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The Changing Space Economy of City-Regions

Part of the GeoJournal Library Book Series

Editors: Cheruiyot, Koech

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67483-4

ISBN: 978-3-319-67482-7

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Oct 31, 2017

1 - 10 of 10 Chapters

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Chapter 1City-Regions and Their Changing Space Economies

Cheruiyot, Koech

Pages: 1 –24

[With unresolved discourses prevailing in mainstream economic thought, including in economic geography, city-regions and their changing space economies is the central theme of this volume. The chapter focuses on key and competing theoretical and conceptual issues of the space economy of global...
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Chapter 2The Economic Drivers of Urban Change in the Gauteng City-Region: Past, Present, and Future

Sihlongonyane, Mfaniseni F.

Pages: 25 –62

[This chapter deals with the economic drivers of urban change in the Gauteng City-Region since the dawn of democracy in 1994. The chapter reflects on matters of economic policy and growth and their impact on the attraction of investments, creation of employment and the reconfiguration of the...
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Chapter 3Assessing the Gauteng City-Region’s Global Presence and Positioning Through Current Global-City Measures

Cheruiyot, Koech; Desai, Anisa; Lengaram, Ezekiel

Pages: 63 –92

[The Gauteng City-Region (GCR) forms the economic heartland of South Africa, and the African continent, contributing slightly over a third and a tenth to gross domestic product (GDP), respectively. This area is arguably one of the most economically-active regions on the continent and has been...
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Chapter 4Importance of Industrial Clusters and Inter-industry Linkages for Regional Policy in the Gauteng City-Region

Hofe, Rainer vom; Cheruiyot, Koech

Pages: 93 –129

[This chapter investigates industrial clusters as building blocks of the Gauteng economy. As economic clusters are regarded as critical masses that are spatially concentrated, are somehow related, and impact one another as a result of their complementarities or similarities, such clusters reflect...
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Chapter 5The Evolution of Manufacturing in the Gauteng City-Region: From De-Industrialization to Re-Industrialization?

Ashman, Sam; Newman, Susan

Pages: 131 –156

[The South African economy has long been dominated by what Fine and Rustomjee (1996) call the “Minerals–Energy Complex” (MEC). Much South African ‘manufacturing’ has been connected to this capital-intensive MEC core of the economy, with manufacturing outside the MEC core being relatively weak....
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Chapter 6Unpacking the Changing Economic Geography of Gauteng’s Tertiary Sector

Rogerson, Christian M.

Pages: 157 –184

[The tertiary sector is the key driver of the Gauteng economy and, correspondingly, a major influence on spatial development. Notwithstanding its significance, the tertiary sector remains relatively neglected in existing scholarship about South Africa’s economic heartland. The aim in this chapter...
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Chapter 7Locating the Informal Sector in the Gauteng City-Region and Beyond

Peberdy, Sally

Pages: 185 –211

[This chapter explores the distribution, role and penetration of the informal sector in the spatial and economic landscapes of the Gauteng City-Region (GCR), as well as how it extends the economic footprint of the GCR. The chapter focuses on informal-sector entrepreneurial activity and employment...
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Chapter 8Testing Economic Growth Convergence and Its Policy Implications in the Gauteng City-Region

Cheruiyot, Koech; Mushongera, Darlington

Pages: 213 –239

[Reducing income inequalities remains one of the key challenges facing South Africa twenty years after democracy. While these inequalities are very clear along racial lines, they are also very stark spatially. For example, research in 2000 showed that 82% of South Africa’s gross domestic product...
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Chapter 9Revitalizing Gauteng City-Region Township Economies Through Value Chain Development

Ngwenya, Phindile; Zikhali, Precious

Pages: 241 –273

[Integration into global and/or local value chains is increasingly being recognised as a way to promote the growth of small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in South Africa. In particular, by strengthening linkages between the largely informal township economies and the advanced formal...
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Chapter 10Dualisms in the Gauteng City-Region: Summary and Implications

Cheruiyot, Koech

Pages: 275 –285

[This volume offers new research and fresh insight into city-regions and changing space economies in the Global South. The research presented in this volume focuses on the largest agglomeration in a country and on a continent bedevilled by a myriad development challenges. The space economy of the...

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