Changing space changing city : Johannesburg after apartheid As the dynamo of South Africas economy Johannesburg commands a central position in the nations imagination and scholars throughout the world monitor the city as an exemplar of urbanity in the global South.This richly illustrated study offers detailed empirical analyses of changes in the citys physical space as well as a host of chapters on the character of specific neighbourhoods and the social identities being forged within them. Informing all of these is a consideration of underlying economic social and political processes shaping the wider Gauteng region.