What impact did European colonialism have on the native Africans that were already living there?

Columbia Purpose of Ethnographic Research How Can It Help City Planners Questions

1. What impact did European colonialism have on the native Africans that were already living there?

2. How did the white South African government segregate Cape Town in the late 19th and early twentieth centuries? What impact did apartheid have on planning and development in Cape Town? how did they use physical obstacles to segregate? Use specific examples. (sahistory.org.za and Guardian article)

3.What was the government reaction to informal settlements, historically? (from sahistory.org.za reading)

4.What are the challenges residents of Cape Town settlements (slums) face today? 

5.What is the strategy that in-situ blocking out employs, and what makes it different from traditional housing programs the state runs? (see reading Transforming Minds and Setting Precedents: Blocking-out at Ruimsig Informal Settlement)

6.What outcome did Blocking-Out have on the settlements? Was it a success? What lessons did the planners learn from this effort? 

7.What is the purpose of ethnographic research, and how can it help city planners?

 links https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/apr/30/cap…https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/cape-town-seg…Download 11) Thalenfeld, The Shape of a Community.pdfDownload Transforming_minds_and_setting_precedents_published.pdf