Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The restless urban landscape : the evolving spatial geography of Johannesburg
  • The flawed promise of the high-modernist city : city building at the apex of apartheid rule
  • Hollowing out the center : Johannesburg turned inside out
  • Worlds apart : the Johannesburg inner city and the making of the outcast ghetto
  • The splintering metropolis : laissez-faire urbanism and unfettered suburban sprawl
  • Defensive urbanism after apartheid : spatial partitioning and the new fortification aesthetic
  • Entrepreneurial urbanism and the private city
  • Reconciling arcadia and utopia : gated residential estates at the metropolitan edge
  • Epilogue. putting Johannesburg in its place : the ordinary city.