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Towards a Smart Metropolitan Regional Development—Spatial and Economic Design Strategies: Johannesburg

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From a population of 26,303 in 1890 to 102,078 in 1896, to a population of 4.4 million in 2011, Johannesburg located in the Gauteng province, is the largest city in South Africa and is one of the 50 largest urban areas in the world. This has occurred in different paces, times and places in terms of numbers, urban form and structure (density distribution, and compactness). As a megacity, Johannesburg becomes more complex for its planning, design and management compared to a small city. For instance, elements of its urban form and structure as well as elements of transport infrastructures and, recently, elements of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) will largely determine its accessibility. This accessibility determines to a large extent, the interaction between economic and spatial design strategies. Henceforth, this chapter is divided into six sections. The first section presents the “Conceptual framework of the Smart Metropolitan Regional Development” of the study; The second section reflects on the “Gauteng City region and Johannesburg in Time and Space”; The third section focuses on the “Urban Accessibility and Mobility”; The fourth section looks at “Smart Energy for Economic Development”; The fifth section presents “Urbanization, Economic Growth and Metropolitan Regional Development”; and, The sixth section, based on the development of the previous sections, presents the “Spatial and Economic Design Strategies for a Smart Johannesburg Metropolitan Regional Development”.

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  1. South African National Space Agency (SANSA), Tshwane, South Africa

    Naledzani Mudau & Paida Mhangara

  2. Global Observatory Liking Research to Action (GORA) Corp, NY, USA

    Gora Mboup

  3. School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Mfaniseni Sihlongonyane

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Mudau, N., Mboup, G., Mhangara, P., Sihlongonyane, M. (2019). Towards a Smart Metropolitan Regional Development—Spatial and Economic Design Strategies: Johannesburg. In: Vinod Kumar, T. (eds) Smart Metropolitan Regional Development. Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8588-8_16

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