(University of the Free State, 2003) Donaldson, Ronnie; Jurgens, Ulrich; Bahr, Jurgen
English: The Pretoria inner-city area and, more specifically, the high-density Sunnyside residential
area have experienced major social and spatial changes since the mid-1990s.
As in other metropolitan areas, the city’s spatial structure has been shaped by urban
developmental processes such as decentralisation, desegregation and deconcentration.
This article’s assessment of these changes in the context of the ways in which
the inner city is transforming and positioning itself sheds some light on what we
consider an inner-city success story in terms of adaptation to radical changes.