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Paru le 03/05/2011
This CD-Rom is a commented edition of a geo-referenced database for one century of demographic and administrative follow-up of all localities, cities and territories in South Africa.
The Dysturb database collates, harmonises and inter-relates over time the following different elements: a set of political, administrative and functional maps of the districts, provinces and urban areas; the demographic and administrative data for all South African localities from 1911. In all, the 20 000 geo-referenced localities of the 2001 census are put in perspective in terms of spatio-temporal parameters, demographic history and urban dynamics, through the post-colonial, apartheid and post-apartheid periods.
Dysturb has a threefold purpose: it is a tool enabling the study of spatial and territorial archaeology, of historical demography, and of urban dynamics. It is backed up by a series of maps and commentaries that have been developed for the CD-Rom.
Frédéric Giraut is full professor in political geography at the University of Geneva. He has conducted two joint research programmes for the Institut de recherche pour le développement on the post-apartheid territorial restructuring and was based as fellow researcher in the early 2000's at the University of Durban-Westville (today University of KwaZulu-Natal).
Céline Vacchiani-Marcuzzo is associate professor in urban geography and spatial analysis at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne and researcher at UMR Géographie-cités. Her researches focus on the analysis of cities on the long term, the spatial dynamics of globalization and the territorial reorganization in South Africa.
