Murray Martin J. Murray

City of Extremes (eBook, PDF)

The Spatial Politics of Johannesburg

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Produktbeschreibung

City of Extremes is a powerful critique of urban development in greater Johannesburg since the end of apartheid in 1994. Martin J. Murray describes how a loose alliance of city builders-including real estate developers, large-scale property owners, municipal officials, and security specialists-has sought to remake Johannesburg in the upbeat image of a world-class city. By creating new sites of sequestered luxury catering to the comfort, safety, and security of affluent urban residents, they have produced a new spatial dynamic of social exclusion, effectively barricading the mostly black urban poor from full participation in the mainstream of urban life. This partitioning of the cityscape is enabled by an urban planning environment of limited regulation or intervention into the prerogatives of real estate capital.Combining insights from urban studies, cultural geography, and urban sociology with extensive research in South Africa, Murray reflects on the implications of Johannesburg's dual character as a city of fortified enclaves that proudly displays the ostentatious symbols of global integration and the celebrated "e;enterprise culture"e; of neoliberal design, and as the "e;miasmal city"e; composed of residual, peripheral, and stigmatized zones characterized by signs of a new kind of marginality. He suggests that the "e;global cities"e; paradigm is inadequate to understanding the historical specificity of cities in the Global South, including the colonial mining town turned postcolonial megacity of Johannesburg.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822391814
• Artikelnr.: 54920221

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