The reach of GCRO research
The GCRO website has become the key portal for accessing all research outputs. While the focus is on the Gauteng City-Region, many issues examined are applicable in other contexts. This Map of the Month illustrates the global visitors to the GCRO website. Much of our research is based on data from the Quality of Life (QoL) survey that has become a benchmark for social surveying in South Africa. In our commitment to open access, this QoL survey data is freely available and the second map depicts the requests for the data from across each of the 4 surveys.
Date of publication:
December 2017
Spatial footprints of mothers in Johannesburg
Mothers, through multifaceted roles which include (but which also extend far beyond) the care of and provision for children, intersect with and use the city in a variety of intensive and demanding ways. This Map of the Month shows the different spatial footprints - some large, some small - of a number of mothers as they traverse Johannesburg to get to work, church, education, shops, recreation and medical care.
Differentiating household income growth in Gauteng 2001-2011
While there is much awareness of acute wealth inequality in South Africa, there is some contestation about whether the situation is improving. This map of the month looks at spatial inequality in Gauteng over time. The analysis shows that many low income areas, particularly townships, are not catching up with the rest of the province with respect to household income, and that spatial inequality is getting worse.
Date of publication:
October 2017
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Dimensions of diversity in Gauteng
Are we seeing a move towards ‘desegregation’ in the post-apartheid period? Which areas in Gauteng are the most ‘mixed’? The answers to such questions depend on what we consider mixing to be. In this Map of the Month we use a statistical measure known as an entropy score – applied to Gauteng wards – to gauge levels of diversity on each of three dimensions: race, language and income. The higher the score, the higher the measure of diversity, and in turn the higher the level of co-presence or ‘mixing’ in the area of each Gauteng ward.
Date of publication:
September 2017
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Watershed boundaries of the GCR
The August 2017 Map of the Month shows the rivers, dams and wetlands in Gauteng, with the watershed represented by the orange line. A key aspect of the Witwatersrand watershed is that it bisects the urban area as illustrated in the accompanying diagram. In addition, we have depicted the watershed (the blue ribbon) on a 3-dimensional model of Gauteng that shows the topography and building form of the city-region.
Date of publication:
August 2017
