2015/09/ Urban environment trends and the sustainable city WELL-GOVERNED CITY Key issue: Is the political & institutional context stable, open and dynamic enough to accommodate all interests CITY POPULATION Key issue: What will be the future size, form and character of urban populations, given the commitment that residents have to lives in the city? INCLUSIVE CITY Key issue: Do residents have the opportunities and capacities to share equitably in the social benefits of city life? SUSTAINABLE CITY Key issue: How is the city impacting on the envelope of natural resources that sustains the settlement and makes it livable? PRODUCTIVE CITY Key issue: Can the local economy provide a majority of residents with means to earn a reasonable living?

2015/09/ Urban environment trends and the sustainable city Population changes, economic growth and social development all shape the built environment of the city In turn, size and shape of cities affects social development, economic prospects and population stability, because built environments impact on the envelope of natural resources that makes cities liveable. Cities may become so large, dense, polluted and spatially dysfunctional that they become unsustainable (diseconomies of scale exceed benefits of locating in cities) Key issues examined in report: Inefficiencies of apartheid spatial planning Air and water quality, waste management, and long term land and water availability Environmental health and safety Urban mobility

2015/09/ Urban environment trends and the sustainable city Urban apartheid design resulted in many built environment inefficiencies This means that the apartheid city had a high impact on the envelope of natural resources On assumption of small populations, many SA cities under-designed – slums are the inevitable result Designed to marginalise, so large numbers pushed far out into dormitory townships, and designed to impede movement as measure of poliitcal control – high transport costs Areas deliberately underserviced

2015/09/ Urban environment trends and the sustainable city Post-apartheid developments have often excacerbated the apartheid city form Dedensification especially movement out of backyards. In 2001 there were still backyard hsh in 9 cities Office decentralisation, in part to escape perceived crime and grime from inner cities being occupied by new migrants and those moving out of backyards New housing developments on the edges of cities because of subsidy structure and developer preferences

2015/09/ Urban environment trends and the sustainable city Consequently, cities have a high and growing impact on natural resource envelope Valuable agriculatural land and water sources being strained by the spreading out of cities NSDP notes that at least four SACN will face major water deficits in the next 20 years Part of the problem is utilisation of transportation subsidies. If properly realocated R2 billion annually could be made available for better located land making for more compact cities

2015/09/ Urban environment trends and the sustainable city Some major challenges in adequately treating all wastewater and managing domestic and business waste In one city, illegal dumping per annum reached tons, almost three quarters of residential waste of tons 22% of households in the nine cities had inadequate sanitation (VIP or less)

2015/09/ Urban environment trends and the sustainable city Air pollution, and the health effects thereof, are growing On average only 15% of the areas of the SACN are monitored for air pollution Measured tonnage of CO 2 & other gass emissions range from tons in one Gauteng city to in another One city reported that DEAT guidelines for air-quality were exceeded 45 days during the year (an ‘air-pollution event’)

2015/09/ Urban environment trends and the sustainable city Increasing population densities and greater traffic volumes on sometimes poorly maintained roads means time costs of moving around cities are inreasing Exacerbated by poor availability and use of public transport eThekwiniCape TownTshwane Average number of home to work trips per day Percentage of communters using public transport 54% 45% 47% Percentage of commuters using private transport 46% 48%39% Percentge using both or other-- 7%13% Average travel time (one way) in minutes: Public42 min--67 min Average travel time (one way) in minutes: Private19 min15 min29 min

2015/09/ Urban environment trends and the sustainable city Many cities have begun to think and act proactively on the urban environment. They have new environmental protection by-laws, environmental protection strategies, transport plans, open space management systems Some have alreade taken next steps to do environmental footprint analyses. This determines area equivalent to inputs needed to sustain the city Cape Town Total City Environmental Footprint sq km City Energy Environmental Footprint sq km W Cape Province Area sq km City Jurisdictional Area sq km City Built-up area 774 sq km