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Author interviews with planners (Fair, Davies, Mallows et al.)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind interviews oral history
Producer The author
Coverage 1990-1994
Works using it 3

Debates

Debate Works
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city 3
Historiographical approaches 1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Mabin (1990) Interviews with R.J. Davies, Cape Town, 09.01.90 1990 Supports claims about Durban's fear of permissive implementation of the 1946 Act and about city council pressure after the Durban riots.
Mabin (1992) Interviews by the author with T.J.D. Fair (December 1990) and R.J. Davies (9 January 1990) 1990 Supports claims about the Smuts government's hesitation on a national planning department, the NRDC's racial zoning, Durban fears and the 1949 riots' pressure.
Parnell and Mabin (1995) Interviews with planners (Mallows, Pistorius, Jane Drew, T. J. D. Fair, R. Kantorowich, Thorrington Smith) 1990-1994 Establishes the careers, training and influence of modernist planners and Smuts's hesitation over a planning department.