TY - BOOK AU - Sohn,Christophe TI - Avatars of the Township in the Post-Apartheid City: Namibian Lessons on the Word and the Referent PY - 2006///. N1 - 54 N2 - In southern african cities, townships as segregated spaces designed for the control of non-white populations represent an emblematic figure of the apartheid policy. Beside this definition, the word also refers to another reality : it represents a cadastral and urban unit widely used in town planning. Beyond the presentation of that hidden face of the township, this article seeks to bring to the fore how such a word has acquired new significations during the course of history. As well as the implications on urban planning and management, it is a matter of revealing the stakes and the strategies underlying these shifts in meaning and the semantic game that is ensuing UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-espace-geographique-2006-1-page-1?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -