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City of extremes : the spatial politics of Johannesburg

By: Series: Politics, history and culture Ed. by George Steinmetz and Julia AdamsPublication details: Durham Duke University Press 2011Description: xxx,470,ipISBN:
  • 9780822347682
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DDC classification:
  • 711.4 MUR
Contents:
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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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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