Title/Position: Professor, Programme Director for Planning
Department/Faculty/Institution: School of Architecture and Planning, University of Witwatersrand
Degree(s)/School(s): PhD (Planning), University of Natal
Email alison.todes@wits.ac.za
MCRI Projects: B5: Regional Governance and Suburbanization; B8: Everyday Suburbanisms. C1: Africa.
Background: Alison Todes has researched widely on urban and regional development and planning. She is a past Research Director for the Human Sciences Research Council and was a professor and Programme Director for Planning in the School of Architecture, Planning and Housing at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.
Research Interests: Urban spatial change, including dynamics on urban peripheries and densification; Strategic spatial planning and the effects of planning interventions; Property development; South African urbanization dynamics; Urban and regional restructuring and the effects of planning interventions; Integrated development planning.
Select Publications:
Todes, A. & Turok, I. (2018). Spatial inequalities and policies in South Africa: Place-based or people-centred? Progress in Planning. 123: 1-31.
Todes, A., Weakley, D. & Harrison, P. (2018). Densifying Johannesburg: Context, policy and diversity. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. 33 (2): 281-299.
Harrison, P. & Todes, A. (2017). Satellite settlement on the spatial periphery: Lessons from international and Gauteng experience. Transformation. 95: 32-64.
Ballard, R., Dittgen, R., Harrison, P. & Todes, A. (2017). Megaprojects and urban visions: Johannesburg’s Corridors of Freedom and Modderfontein. Transformation. 95: 111-139.
Todes, A. (2017). Shaping Peripheral Growth? Strategic spatial planning in a South African city-region. Habitat International. 67: 129-136.
Harrison, P. & Todes, A. (2015). Spatial transformations in a loosening state: South Africa in a comparative perspective. Geoforum. 6: 148-162.
Todes, A. (2014). New African suburbanisation? Exploring the growth of the northern corridor of eThekwini/KwaDukuza. African Studies. 73 (2): 245-270.
Harrison, P., Gotz, G., Todes, A. & Wray, C. (eds) (2014). Changing Space, Changing City: Johannesburg after Apartheid. Johannesburg: Wits University Press.
Todes, A. (2014). The Impact of Policy and Strategic Spatial Planning. In P. Harrison, G. Gotz, A. Todes & C. Wray (eds.) Changing Space, Changing City: Johannesburg after Apartheid. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 83-100.
Gotz, G. & Todes, A. (2014). Johannesburg’s Space Economy. In P. Harrison, G. Gotz, A. Todes & C. Wray (eds.) Changing Space, Changing City: Johannesburg after Apartheid. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp.117-136.
Harrison, P., Gotz, G., Todes, A. & Wray, C. (2014). Materialities, Subjectivities and Spatial Transformation in Johannesburg. In P. Harrison, G. Gotz, A. Todes & C. Wray (eds.) Changing Space, Changing City: Johannesburg after Apartheid. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 2-39.
Klug, N., Rubin, M. And Todes, A. (2014). The North-Western Edge. In P. Harrison, G. Gotz, A. Todes & C. Wray (eds.) Changing Space, Changing City: Johannesburg after Apartheid. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 418-436.
Todes, A. (2014). The External and Internal Context for Urban Governance. In C. Haferburg & M. Huchzermeyer (eds.) Urban Governance in Post-Apartheid Cities. Modes of Engagement in South Africa’s Metropoles. Stuttgart: Schweizerbart and Borntraeger Science Publishers, pp.15-35
Klug, N., Rubin, M. & Todes, A. (2013). Inclusionary housing: A tool for reshaping South Africa’s spatial legacy? Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. 28(4): 667-678.
Todes, A. (2012). Urban growth and strategic spatial planning in Johannesburg. Cities. 29: 158-165.
Todes, A. (2012). New forms of spatial planning? Linking spatial planning and infrastructure. Journal of Planning Education and Research. 32 (4): 400-414.
Harrison, P., Todes, A. & Watson, V. (2008). Planning and Transformation: Learning from the post-Apartheid experience. Abingdon, Oxford: Routledge.
