Abstract
ABSTRACT Scholars engaged in the study of Southern African cities have focused much attention on the ways residents subvert and re-work the modernist apartheid urban form. In doing so, they tend to treat people's spatial ‘transgressions’ as a form of resistance, and as examples of indigenous urban space-making. In addressing the discrepancies between the planning intentions of urban practitioners and lived urban practice, this article aims to offer a counter perspective on this recent body of literature. More specifically, residents of a small (former homeland) town in northwest Namibia attribute their own failure to abide by planning intentions as being the result of a ‘lack of experience’ rather than an act of resistance. In fact, the detailed case reveals the extent to which town residents actually embrace the apartheid-era's modernist built forms as a basis for an imagined urban future.
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