Umfang:
1 online resource (658 pages)
ISBN:
9781868147663
Inhalt:
The dynamo of South Africa's economy, Johannesburg commands a central position as an exemplar of urbanity in the global South. This book offers detailed empirical analyses of changes in the city's physical space and a host of chapters on the character of specific neighbourhoods and the social identities being forged within them.
Inhalt:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Cartography -- 1 Materialities, subjectivities and spatial transformation in Johannesburg -- Section A: The Macro Trends -- 2 The 'thin oil of urbanisation'? 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's 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's peri-central neighbourhoods irremediably 'fluid'? Local leadership and community building in Yeoville and Bertrams -- 14 The wrong side of the mining belt? Spatial transformations and identities in Johannesburg's 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, 1969-2013: From open veld to new CBD? -- 19 In the forest of transformation: Johannesburg's 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.
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ISBN 9781868147656
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781868147656
Sprache:
Englisch
