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UN-PLANNING Apartheid

Working with the Development Action Group and Anzabeth Tonkin, I produced the following series on apartheid planning for the South African Local Government Association (SALGA). Each of these issues shows how medium-density housing on inner-city land can be provided to poor South Africans. In so doing, these publications advocate for concrete strategies to un-plan the racial and spatial segregation violently enforced by the apartheid state and sustained in the present day.

Advocacy agenda

medium Density in-fill housing

case studies

DAG CASE STUDIES     ​ERIN TORKELSON & ANZABETH TONKIN, "considering affordability." URBAN LAND MATTERS. 2011.
DAG CASE STUDIES     ​ERIN TORKELSON & ANZABETH TONKIN, "sustainable land use." URBAN LAND MATTERS. 2011.
DAG CASE STUDIES     ​ERIN TORKELSON & ANZABETH TONKIN, "Good design & construction." URBAN LAND MATTERS. 2011.
DAG CASE STUDIES     ​ERIN TORKELSON & ANZABETH TONKIN, "Housing typology." URBAN LAND MATTERS. 2011.
DAG CASE STUDIES     ​ERIN TORKELSON & ANZABETH TONKIN, "Tenure Options." URBAN LAND MATTERS. 2011.
DAG CASE STUDIES     ​ERIN TORKELSON & ANZABETH TONKIN, "Vulnerable people." URBAN LAND MATTERS. 2011.
DAG CASE STUDIES     ​ERIN TORKELSON & ANZABETH TONKIN, "Community Participation." URBAN LAND MATTERS. 2011.
DAG CASE STUDIES     ​ERIN TORKELSON & ANZABETH TONKIN, "Considering livelihoods." URBAN LAND MATTERS. 2010.
DAG CASE STUDIES     ​ERIN TORKELSON & ANZABETH TONKIN, "An Integrated Approach." URBAN LAND MATTERS. 2010.
DAG CASE STUDIES     ​ERIN TORKELSON & ANZABETH TONKIN, "Good Location." URBAN LAND MATTERS. 2010.
DAG CASE STUDIES     ​ERIN TORKELSON & ANZABETH TONKIN, "Housing Policy." URBAN LAND MATTERS. 2010.
DAG CASE STUDIES     ​ERIN TORKELSON & anzabeth tonkin, "Sustainable Development." urban land matters. 2010.
dag case studies     ​erin torkelson, "Netreg Housing Project: Remaking the city & vernacular economy." 2010.
DAG CASE STUDIES     ​ERIN TORKELSON, "the n2 gateway project: gateway to where?" 2009.

News Articles

CAPE ARGUS     ​LESAR RULE & ERIN TORKELSON, "HOW WE SWOPPED SHACKS FOR HOMES." 6 APRIL 2009.

presentations

Standing committee on public accounts     Erin Torkelson, "the n2 Gateway project." 27 October 2009.