Download or read book Outcast Cape Town written by John Western and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social geographer John Western analyzes the urban spatial planning of the 1950 Group Areas Act that achieved, in the built environment of Cape Town, the racial separatism of apartheid. His new prologue for the paperback edition assesses the changes to be expected from the new government and the obstacles to significant change.