Abstract
Vendor and pedestrian experiences of their ‘right to the city’ in street design and management in small urban centres in the Vhembe District, South Africa
Highlights
Street spaces are an integral part of people’s lives as they have the potential to offer multiple social, economic, environmental, and physical functions that can improve the quality of human settlements and people’s livelihoods (Oranratmanee & Sachakul, 2014: 212; Deore & Lathia, 2019: 138; Mehta, 2019: 17; Tsoriyo, 2021: 1)
If a non-vehicular user is satisfied with a particular quality, his/her needs on street space are met, enhancing his/her ‘right to the city’ claim
The ‘right to the city’ experiences differ between towns and, in some instances, this is as a result of economic activities, geographical location, and the town’s history
Summary
Street spaces are an integral part of people’s lives as they have the potential to offer multiple social, economic, environmental, and physical functions that can improve the quality of human settlements and people’s livelihoods (Oranratmanee & Sachakul, 2014: 212; Deore & Lathia, 2019: 138; Mehta, 2019: 17; Tsoriyo, 2021: 1). The ‘right to the city’ claims is a diverse portfolio of rights that users of street spaces require, including the right to safety, the right to access and the right to livelihoods, among other rights (Brown & Kristiansen, 2009: 19; Meneses-Reyes & Caballero-Juárez, 2014: 371; Middleton, 2018: 302). Related to this concept is the understanding of spatial justice. According to Marcuse (2012: 35), the ‘right to the city’ is founded on the moral claim of spatial justice and the right to public space. Adegeye and Coetzee (2019: 387) conceptualised spatial justice within the South African context as [s]patial distribution of socially valued resources, such as education, employment, transport, health and housing in any society in such a way that everyone would have adequate access to them, with the disadvantaged of society being the first beneficiaries rather than the last
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