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Taming the Disorderly City : The Spatial Landscape of Johannesburg after Apartheid /

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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Murray, Martin J.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.