Informal Settlements

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APARTHEID &INFORMAL HOUSING

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Midterm for Social Migration course @ California College of the Arts

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 APARTHEID    &  INFORMAL  HOUSING    

         

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In  1929,  with  the  pressures  of  influx  of  African  people  to  Johannesburg,  the  removal  of  African  people  from  the  whites-­‐only  designated  residential  areas  became  a  priority  for  the  council  

   

 

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 Diepsloot      

• 75%  residents  live  in  Diepsloot’s  slums  

• densely  populated  settlement  made  up  of  

formal  and  informal  settlements  

• transit  camp  for  people  who  had  been  

removed  from  Zevenfontein  in  1995  

• 4,000  families  living  in  backyard  shacks  &  

6,035  families  in  the  reception  area    

       

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Reception  Area  

Resourceful  Living  

Landmark  for  ppl  to  locate  themselselves    

Dense  informal  settlement  

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“we  don’t  want  to  do  a  politically  expedient  project  that’s  not  going  to  

last.”      

   

                 

             

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   Informal  Housing  

 • 13.5%  of  all  households  +-­‐(1,06  million)  live  in  squatter  housing  nationwide,  mostly  in  free-­‐standing  squatter  settlements  on  the  periphery  of  cities  and  towns  and  in  the  back  yards  of  formal  houses.  

• Lack  of  regular  refuse  removal  • No  electricity  • No  ownership  rights  • Suspended  residents  in  limbo  under  promise  of  new  housing  • Occupancy  patterns  seen  in  high  density,  low  income  areas  • Sub-­‐letting  and  small  scale  enterprise  • Low  rise  &  high-­‐density  

   

     

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distinct  hierarchy  of  spaces    and  thresholds  mitigate  the  high  densities  

 

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   Informal  Housing    •no  electricity  •no  ownership  rights  •suspended  residents  in  limbo  under  promise  of  new  housing  •occupancy  patterns  seen  in  high  density,  low  income  areas  •sub-­‐letting  and  small  scale  enterprise  •low  rise  &  high-­‐density        

   

Simmi’s  Sweet  Shop              

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

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       Smallboy’s  Hair  Products                        

Sydney’s  House                    

 Eunice’s  Snack  Stall  

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             Interventions                  …infrastructure  that  is       more  than  just  infrastructure                          

   

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“In  the  South  African  case,  we  have  some  real  new  hybrid  post-­apartheid  identities  to  be  formed.  But  new  culture  is  created  in  the  very  in-­

between  spaces,  the  most  unlikely  spaces.  And  it’s  created  by  people,  not  by  buildings.”