Download or read book Combating Socio-spatial Polarization in a Globalizing Environment written by Michael Strong and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities across the developing world are caught between the demands of growth-oriented globalization and pro-poor policies aimed to improve the livelihoods of impoverished residents. For world cities, like Cape Town, the dynamics of world city formation, especially the impact of socio-spatial polarization, complicates the relationship between growth and redistribution. Cape Town's legacy as an apartheid city further exacerbates the situation. Cape Town's government believes it can achieve both a growth agenda and a redistribution agenda to overcome the segregation inherited from the apartheid era while dealing with the socio-spatial polarization that occurs during world city formation. A textual analysis of the language used in the city's Integrated Development Plan and Integrated Housing Plan, however, shows the city favors growth over redistribution.