GCRO Reports: Occasional Papers

Recent Reports

Historical spatial change in the Gauteng City-Region
Brian Mubiwa, Harold Annegarn
March, 2013
Historical spatial change in the Gauteng City-Region

This Occasional Paper is one of two that GCRO has commissioned specifically to deepen our understanding of the past of the GCR. Both focus on aspects of the region’s spatial past, and ought to be read together. This paper by Brian Mubiwa and Harold Annegarn explores the historical spatial evolution of the GCR. It examines key spatial changes that have shaped the region over a century and provides a remarkable picture, based on satellite imagery, of regional spatial growth in the last two decades. The companion paper by Alan Mabin asks the different but related question of how the idea of a city-region found expression in various statutory planning frameworks over the course of the last century, and how embryonic city-region concepts influenced spatial decisions and developments.

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Survey of surveys: A survey of citizen-based surveys conducted by provincial and local government in Gauteng
Ross Jennings
October, 2012
Survey of surveys: A survey of citizen-based surveys conducted by provincial and local government in Gauteng

This publication contains the findings from a GCRO survey of citizen-based surveys undertaken at provincial and local government level in Gauteng. The Survey was conducted in order to understand the efficiencies at play with different role players conducting similar exercises at similar points in time.

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