Changing space, changing city : : Johannesburg after apartheid / / edited by Philip Harrison [and three others].

• TeilnehmendeR: Harrison, Philip, 1964-
• Place / Publishing House: Johannesburg : : Wits University Press,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 590 pages)

Table of Contents

1. Materialities, subjectivities and spatial transformation in Johannesburg -- Section A. The macro trends. 2. The \2018thin oil of urbanisation\2019? : 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\2019s urban space economy -- 7. Changes in the natural landscape -- 8. Informal settlements -- 9. Public housing in Johannesburg -- 10. 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\2019s peri-central neighbourhoods irremediably \2018fluid\2019? : Local leadership and community building in Yeoville and Bertrams -- 14. The wrong side of the mining belt? Spatial transformations and identities in Johannesburg\2019s southern suburbs -- 15. Soweto.: A study in socio-spatial differentiation -- 16. Kliptown: Resilience and despair in the face of a hundred years of planning -- 17. Alexandra -- 18. Sandton Central, 1969\20132013. From open veld to new CBD? -- 19. In the forest of transformation.: Johannesburg\2019s 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 \2018spaces of hope\2019: Exploring Hillbrow\2019s discursive credoscapes -- 26. 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.