Taming the disorderly city : the spatial landscape of Johannesburg after apartheid /

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In postapartheid Johannesburg, tensions of race and class manifest themselves starkly in struggles over "rights to the city." Real-estate developers and the very poor fight for control of space as the municipal administration steps aside, almost powerless to shape the direction of change....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Murray, Martin J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
Colección:Cornell paperbacks
Temas:
Sociology, Urban > South Africa > Johannesburg.
Urban renewal > South Africa > Johannesburg.
City planning > South Africa > Johannesburg.
Rénovation urbaine > Afrique du Sud > Johannesburg.
Sociologie urbaine > Afrique du Sud > Johannesburg.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
City planning
Geography
Politics and government
Social conditions
Sociology, Urban
Urban renewal
Stadtentwicklung
Stadtplanung
Johannesburg (South Africa) > Social conditions.
Johannesburg (South Africa) > Geography.
Johannesburg (South Africa) > Politics and government.
South Africa > Johannesburg
Johannesburg
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Social justice and the rights to the city
  • Ruin and regeneration intertwined
  • The fixed and flexible city
  • Disposable people at the peri-urban fringe
  • The spatial dynamics of real estate capitalism
  • The struggle for survival in the inner city
  • Revitalization and displacement in the inner city
  • The banality of indifferent urbanism.

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