"Focusing on three materially poor, physically peripheral urban neighborhoods in the City of Tygerberg, this research uncovers the complex nature of state restructuring and urban transformation in post-apartheid South Africa. Through a detailed analysis of state policies and projects for the delivery of low-income housing and crime prevention in these neighborhoods, this work demonstrates that in these processes, the states (its institutions, officials and projects) and urban residents and community organizations have negotiated the complexities of racial identities and the politics of place rooted in the geography of the post-apartheid city and its history of inequality configured in patterns of segregation."--P. 7.