The role of urban land as a lever for strategic urban restructuring in frontier towns: a case study of post-apartheid spatial planning in Graaff-Reinet

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The focus of this research was on the role of urban land as a lever for strategic urban restructuring in frontier towns of South Africa, using a case-study analysis of post-apartheid spatial planning in the town of Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape province. Consequently, the extent to which well-located state land parcels provide strategic levers for the socio-spatial restructuring of the apartheid geographies of Graaff-Reinet was investigated.