TY  - GEN
AU  - Murray, Martin J.
TI  - City of extremes : the spatial politics of Johannesburg
SN  - 9780822347682
U1  - 711.4 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  -  
N1  - Contents   
List of maps  vii
List of illustrations  ix
Preface  xi
Acknowledgements  xxvii
Abbreviations   xxxi
Introduction    1
Part I making Space : city building and the production of the built environment  23
Chapter  1 : The restless urban landscape : the evolving spatial geography of Johannesburg   29
Chapter  2 The flawed promise of the high-modernist city : city building at the apex of apartheid rule  59
Part II unraveling space : centrifugal urbanism and the convulsive city  83
Chapter  3 Hollowing out the center : Johannesburg turned inside out   87
Chapter  4 Worlds apart : the Johannesburg inner city and the making of the outcast ghetto  137
Chapter 5 The splintering metropolis : laissez-faire urbanism and unfettered suburban sprawl  173
Part III Fortifying space : Siege Architecture and anxious  urbanism  205
Chapter 6 Defensive urbanism after apartheid : spatial partitioning and the new fortification aesthetic 213
Chapter 7 Entrepreneurial urbanism and the private city  246
Chapter 8 econciling arcadia and utopia : gated residential estates at the metropolitan edge   283
Epilogue.   321
putting Johannesburg in its place : the ordinary city.
Appendix   333
Notes   337
Bibliography   423
Index   463


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