A study on

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A study on The Impacts of Urbanization in the
Port Elizabeth, Seaview Area with the focus on
sustainability
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Overview

• A Brief Background
• Government and Housing
• The basics needs of a community
• Infrastructure
• What is Sustainability
• Are we achieving this
• The future
• Conclusion

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Why the coast?

• People want to be at the sea!
• Beauty
• Job opportunities
• Cultural ties

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The South African situation
Fast facts!!!

• What is considered coastal area in South Africa?
• In 1995, 30 of the population resided at the
  coast
• The coastal area is only 15 of our national
  surface area
• 90 of Tourist attractions are at the coast
• Every 8 tourists creates 1 job

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What is the problem

• We are losing!!!
• Do we achieve what aim to achieve
• Are we killing nature and society?
• Do we want to learn from the mistakes of others

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The Goals

• Sustainability!!!
• Defined The ability to provide for the needs of
  the world's current population without damaging
  the ability of future generations to provide for
  themselves. When a process is sustainable, it can
  be carried out over and over without negative
  environmental effects or impossibly high costs to
  anyone involved.

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Our Situation !!!

• Let me show you!!!

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Objective Sustainability Models

• Why Objective models?
• I found one!
• Smiths sustainability components for a
• well society
• Widely referenced (Knox, 1975 Schneider, 1975
  Walmsley, 1976 Coates et al., 1977 Baster,
  1978 Pacione, 1982 1984 Eyles, 1987
  Hartshorn, 1992 Walmsley Lewis, 1993 Clark
  Wilson, 1994 Herbert Thomas, 1997)

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Lets take a look

• The Primary Components
• Economic Status
• The Residential Area
• Health
• Education
• Recreation
• Social status
• Social Acceptance

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Smiths Well Society Sub Components

• Economic Status
• Income
• Profession
• Willingness to help (Ubuntu!!)

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Smiths Well Society Sub Components

• The Residential Area
• The Residence
• The Area
• The Physical Area

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Smiths Well Society Sub Components

• Health
• Physical Health
• Mental Health
• Facilities

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Smiths Well Society Sub Components

• Education
• Level of Education
• Duration
• Facilities

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Smiths Well Society Sub Components

• Recreation
• Facilities
• Amount of free time after work

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Smiths Well Society Sub Components

• Social Status
• Personal Pathology
• Family status
• Crime and Safety

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Smiths Well Society Sub Components

• Social Acceptance
• Political Participation
• Legal Aid
• Ethnic Segregation

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Why will it not work for South Africa?

• Census!
• The Subcomponents

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The Sustainable Communities Units Project

• Looks at a variety of Principles
• Focuses on Creating a sustainable environment
• Let me Show U

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The Urban Egde

• What is its purpose?
• What happens outside the Urban Edge?

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A typical Rural Development
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The Result

• A long Road to Sustainability
• The Future?

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Questions
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References

• Baster, N. 1978 Work on Development Indicators
  by National Governments, Research Institutes and
  Individual Scholars A Selective Review and
  Discussion on Issues and Problems. In Rao,
  M.V.S., K Porwit N. Baster (reds), Indicators
  of Human and Social Development Report on the
  State of the Art. Tokyo United Nations
  University (181-266)
• Coates, B.E., R.J. Johnston P.L. Knox, 1977
  Geography and Inequality. Oxford Oxford
  University Press.
• Introduction to sustainability. (2006). Retreived
  June 12, 2006, from http//www.sustainabletable.o
  rg/intro
• Japhet Ngubane, Coastal Economics and Tourism.
  Retrieved April 2006, from http//www.coastalsantr
  en.nu.ac.za/courses/durban/economics.html
• Jeffery, S (1999). A GIS-Based Analysis and
  prediction of Parcel land-use change in a coastal
  tourism destination area.
• Knox, P. L. 1975 Social Well-being A spatial
  Perspective. London Oxford University Press.

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References (continued)

• Schneider, M, 1975 The quality of life in large
  American cities objective and subjective social
  indicators. Social indicators Research, 1
  495-509
• Smith, D. M. 1973 An introduction to Welfare
  Geography. Conference Procedings No. 11,
  Department Geography and Environmental Studies,
  Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg
• Pacione, M. 1982 The use of objective and
  subjective measures of life quality human
  geography. Progress in Human Geography, 6
  495-514
• Walmsley, D.J. 1976 Social Well-being in New
  England An Exploratory Spatial Analysis.
  University of New England, Amidale
• Walmsley, D.J. G.J. Lewis, 1993 People and
  Environment Behavioural Approaches in Human
  Geography. Essex Longman