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Changing Space, Changing City : Johannesburg after Apartheid.
The dynamo of South Africa's economy, Johannesburg commands a central position as an exemplar of urbanity in the global South. This book offers detailed empirical analyses of changes in the city's physical space and a host of chapters on the character of specific neighbourhoods and the soc...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Johannesburg :
Witwatersrand University Press,
2014.
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- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Cartography; 1 Materialities, subjectivities and spatial transformation in Johannesburg; Section A: The Macro Trends; 2 The 'thin oil of urbanisation'? Spatial change in Johannesburg and the Gauteng city-region; 3 Poverty and inequality in the Gauteng city-region; 4 The impact of policy and strategic spatial planning; 5 Tracking changes in the urban built environment: An emerging perspective from the City of Johannesburg; 6 Johannesburg's urban space economy; 7 Changes in the natural landscape; 8 Informal settlements
- 9 Public housing in Johannesburg10 Transport in the shaping of space; 11 Gated communities and spatial transformation in Greater Johannesburg; Section B: Area-based Transformations; 12 Between fixity and flux: Grappling with transience and permanence in the inner city; 13 Are Johannesburg's peri-central neighbourhoods irremediably 'fluid'? Local leadership and community building in Yeoville and Bertrams; 14 The wrong side of the mining belt? Spatial transformations and identities in Johannesburg's southern suburbs; 15 Soweto: A study in socio-spatial differentiation
- 16 Kliptown: Resilience and despair in the face of a hundred years of planning17 Alexandra; 18 Sandton Central, 1969-2013: From open veld to new CBD?; 19 In the forest of transformation: Johannesburg's northern suburbs; 20 The north-western edge; 21 The 2010 World Cup and its legacy in the Ellis Park Precinct: Perceptions of local residents; 22 Transformation through transportation: Some early impacts of Bus Rapid Transit in Orlando, Soweto; Section C: Spatial Identities; 23 Footprints of Islam in Johannesburg; 24 Being an immigrant and facing uncertainty in Johannesburg: The case of Somalis
- 25 On 'spaces of hope': Exploring Hillbrow's discursive credoscapes26 The Central Methodist Church; 27 The Ethiopian Quarter; 28 Urban collage: Yeoville; 29 Phantoms of the past, spectres of the present: Chinese space in Johannesburg; 30 The notice; 31 Inner-city street traders: Legality and spatial practice; 32 Waste pickers/informal recyclers; 33 The fear of others: Responses to crime and urban transformation in Johannesburg; 34 Black urban, black research: Why understanding space and identity in South Africa still matters; Contributors; Photographic credits; Acronyms; List of plates
- List of figuresList of tables; Index