This book asks if Johannesburg can unstitch its complex urban fabric to create a city with more democratic public transport, affordable housing in desirable locations and safe, socially and racially integrated public spaces. These essays are instructive for those interested in questions of urban development, history and planning.
This book asks if Johannesburg can unstitch its complex urban fabric to create a city with more democratic public transport, affordable housing in desirable locations and safe, socially and racially integrated public spaces. These essays are instructive for those interested in questions of urban development, history and planning.
Melissa Tandiwe Myambo is a Research Associate at the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa and an Honorary Research Fellow at Wits City Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She holds a PhD from New York University and was a 2017 Writing Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Joburg's spatial dilemmas resonate globally 1. The Micro-Politics of State-led Spatial Transformation: The suburban middle class in a Municipal Tribunal 2. There's Many a Slip 'twixt the Cup and the Lip: Questioning spatial transformation through Johannesburg's Corridors of Freedom 3. Deconstructing and Decolonising Spatiality: Voluntary and affordable housing for a transforming Johannesburg 4. Affinities of Fear: Producing 'safe' spaces in a suburb North of Joburg 5. 'The Darker Side of Modernity' in an Illuminated Precinct in downtown Johannesburg 6. Red Velvet Cheesecake in Maboneng, Pap and Steak in Jeppestown: Displacement and Global Hipsterification in Downtown Jozi 7. The Many Lives of a Chinese mall in Johannesburg 8. Apartheid Spatial Plan: Heritagisation and Museumification of the Past at Vilakazi Street in Soweto 9. Spatial Transformation: Re-Presencing the lost narratives in Johannesburg's heritage buildings 10. Life behind the shop: A family history of work and home in Jeppestown 11. Envelopes of the un-planned in Johannesburg's South
Introduction: Joburg's spatial dilemmas resonate globally 1. The Micro-Politics of State-led Spatial Transformation: The suburban middle class in a Municipal Tribunal 2. There's Many a Slip 'twixt the Cup and the Lip: Questioning spatial transformation through Johannesburg's Corridors of Freedom 3. Deconstructing and Decolonising Spatiality: Voluntary and affordable housing for a transforming Johannesburg 4. Affinities of Fear: Producing 'safe' spaces in a suburb North of Joburg 5. 'The Darker Side of Modernity' in an Illuminated Precinct in downtown Johannesburg 6. Red Velvet Cheesecake in Maboneng, Pap and Steak in Jeppestown: Displacement and Global Hipsterification in Downtown Jozi 7. The Many Lives of a Chinese mall in Johannesburg 8. Apartheid Spatial Plan: Heritagisation and Museumification of the Past at Vilakazi Street in Soweto 9. Spatial Transformation: Re-Presencing the lost narratives in Johannesburg's heritage buildings 10. Life behind the shop: A family history of work and home in Jeppestown 11. Envelopes of the un-planned in Johannesburg's South
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