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Abstract
The South African cityscape has been redeveloped through precinct planning and urban regeneration initiatives. Various conceptual planning tools like sustainable development have re-shaped these cities—this study tested the potential of heritage, and environmental justice as means for driving this urban regeneration. The paper determines the potential links between urban regeneration, sustainable development, environmental justice and heritage—through testing the success of these interventions by assessing shifts in the psychological landscape of the city. Secondly, the paper traces the extent, to which users of these spaces buy into and support objectives of the regeneration interventions. Through interviews with all stakeholders at Constitution Hill, the study determines the extent to which visitors' understandings of urban regeneration, heritage and environmental justice influences the physical landscape. Conceptually, an environmental justice approach informing regeneration is not fully implemented at Constitution Hill, affecting the role of environmental justice in the building of future sustainable cities.