City of Extremes : The Spatial Politics of Johannesburg /
A powerful critique of urban development in greater Johannesburg since the end of apartheid in 1994.
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2011.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.