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

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