City of extremes
Subtitle: the spatial politics of Johannesburg
By: Martin J. Murray
Series: Politics, history, and culture; Politics, history, and culture
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780822347477; 9780822347682
Subjects: Politics and government; Urban Sociology; Race relations; Urban policy; Geography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The restless urban landscape : the evolving spatial geography of Johannesburg; title: The flawed promise of the high-modernist city : city building at the apex of apartheid rule; title: Hollowing out the center : Johannesburg turned inside out; title: Worlds apart : the Johannesburg inner city and the making of the outcast ghetto; title: The splintering metropolis : laissez-faire urbanism and unfettered suburban sprawl; title: Defensive urbanism after apartheid : spatial partitioning and the new fortification aesthetic; title: Entrepreneurial urbanism and the private city; title: Reconciling arcadia and utopia : gated residential estates at the metropolitan edge; title: Epilogue. putting Johannesburg in its place : the ordinary city.