Mitchell's Plain, South Africa, Africa
Year 1970 latitude: -34° 2' longitude: 18° 36' Period 1974-1984 Initiator(s) City of Cape Town Planning organization Planning Department of City of Cape Town Nationality initiator(s) South Africa Designer(s) / Architect(s) Design organization The Meyer Louw Partnership Inhabitants 310,485 (2011) Target population 250,000 Town website Town related links Literature type of New Town: > scale of autonomy New-Town-in-Town Satellite New Town Company Town > client Private Corporation Public Corporation > policy Capital Decentralization Industrialization Resettlement Economic
Mitchells Plain is a New Town situated 27 kilometres southeast of the central business district of Cape Town in the Cape Flats. Constructed in the 1970s by the City of Cape Town and the South African government with the aim of providing a complete, uplifting residential environment, it was restricted to Coloureds only during the Apartheid era. Today, Mitchells Plain is entirely dependent upon economic activities in other parts of the metropolitan area, particularly the central business district of Cape Town, and is segregated along economic lines and characterised by little job opportunities, a decayed built environment that include seventy different housing typologies, poverty and crime despite existing infrastructure such as shopping centres, sports facilities, schools, community centres and public libraries. source:
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