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Vol. 19 No. 2 (2015): African Sociological Review

2 - Capital accumulation, social reproduction and social struggle: rethinking the function of spatial planning and land use

https://doi.org/10.57054/asr.v19i2.3722
Paul Hendler
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9823-9727

Corresponding Author(s) : Paul Hendler

paulhendler@insite.co.za

African Sociological Review, Vol. 19 No. 2 (2015): African Sociological Review

Abstract

This purpose of this paper is to understand the historical impact on urban land usage of ecological,
economic and political factors in order to conceptualise strategic ideas for transforming urban
land usage currently and in the future to enable social equity, promote the efficient use of resources
and sustain the ecologies within which cities and towns are embedded. The paper analyses
the historical data through a triangular matrix of capital accumulation, state reproduction
and planning strategies and popular movements pressurizing to benefit from demanded land
usages. Capital accumulation is viewed as a process through which wealth produced by labour
accrues both to owners of capital and managers in the form of unearned value. This insight is
particularly important in the current phase of global capitalism, in which financialisation is a
dominant form of economic activity and impacts also on the way spaces are planned and used
in urban areas for economic gain. Given the contradiction between an exponentially growing
economy and finite resources, I take into account limits to growth and incorporate ecological
economics’ insights into classical political economy analyses.

Keywords

spatial planning land use capital accumulation social reproduction ecology
Paul Hendler. (2015). 2 - Capital accumulation, social reproduction and social struggle: rethinking the function of spatial planning and land use. African Sociological Review, 19(2), 2–25. https://doi.org/10.57054/asr.v19i2.3722
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