Grey vs Green Infrastructure
Gauteng’s grey infrastructure is easily identifiable in built up urban areas where it commonly performs a single function in the landscape (e.g. storm water infrastructure that attenuates heavy rainfall events and floods).
Date of publication:
December 2012
A comparison of housing settlement typologies using 2.5m land cover
The various settlement typologies across Gauteng are reflected in this land cover map (2.5m) derived by GeoTerraImage (GTI) from 2010 aerial/satellite imagery. The Sandton area, with a concentration of residential cluster settlements, is contrasted with the adjacent Alexandra showing a high level of informal housing. The Pretoria CBD area is depicted with a regular grid of streets and buildings, whereas densification with backyard shacks is clearly evident to the east of Pretoria in Mamelodi. Finally, the historical layout of Soweto is compared to more recent RDP settlement layouts in the O...
Date of publication:
November 2012
Movement into and within Gauteng's Metros
To highlight October transport month 2012, movement into and within Gauteng’s metropolitan municipalities, as measured in the GCRO’s 2011 Quality of Life survey, are depicted in this map.
Date of publication:
October 2012
Fragmenting Space: The Development of privately Governed Space in Gauteng
The emergence of privately governed space in Gauteng has increased since the early 1990s and has fragmented the urban form through the transformation of space from open to controlled access. This month’s map depicts the development of privately governed space in Gauteng, which includes gated communities, office parks, boomed-off areas and estates.
Date of publication:
September 2012
2011 GCRO QoL Survey: Origins of South African migrants
The second map of a series of 2011 GCRO Quality of Life (QoL) survey maps, highlights the 26% of survey respondents that migrated to Gauteng from other provinces. The QoL survey asked all respondents who had migrated into Gauteng to identify the place that they came from, or the nearest large town, based on a list of place names provided to them.
Date of publication:
August 2012
