Martin J Murray

City of Extremes

The Spatial Politics of Johannesburg

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the relationship between evolving urban form and the changing built environment of Johannesburg after apartheid and the new modes of spatial management, regulation and control governing the use of urban space.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9780822347477
• ISBN-10: 0822347474
• Artikelnr.: 30363492

Autorenporträt

Martin J. Murray

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps vii
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xxvii
Abbreviations xxxi
Introduction. Spatial Politics in the Precarious City 1
Part I 23
Making Space: City Building and the Production of the Built Enivronment
1. The Restless Urban Landscape: The Evolving Spatial Geography of
Johannesburg 29
2. The Flawed Promise of the High-Modernist City: City Building at the Apex
of Apartheid Rule 59
Part II 83
Unraveling Space: Centrifugal Urbanism and the Convulsive City
3. Hollowing out the Center: Johannesburg Turned Inside Out 87
4. Worlds Apart: The Johannesburg Inner City and the Making of the Outcast
Ghetto 137
5. The Splintering Metropolis: Laissez-faire Urbanism and Unfettered
Suburban Sprawl 173
Part III 205
Fortifying Space: Siege Architecture and Anxious Urbanism
6. Defensive Urbanism after Apartheid: Spatial Partitioning and the New
Fortification Aesthetic 213
7. Entrepreneurial Urbanism and the Private City 245
8. Reconciling Arcadia and Utopia: Gated Residential Estates at the
Metropolitan Edge 283
Epilogue. Putting Johannesburg in Its Place: The Ordinary City 321
Appendix 333
Notes 337
Bibliography 423
Index 463