City of extremes: the spatial politics of Johannesburg

The restless urban landscape : the evolving spatial geography of Johannesburg -- The flawed promise of the high-modernist city : city building at the apex of apartheid rule -- Hollowing out the center : Johannesburg turned inside out -- Worlds apart : the Johannesburg inner city and the making of th...

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Main Author: Murray, Martin J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham Duke University Press 2011
Series:Politics, history, and culture
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Summary:The restless urban landscape : the evolving spatial geography of Johannesburg -- The flawed promise of the high-modernist city : city building at the apex of apartheid rule -- Hollowing out the center : Johannesburg turned inside out -- Worlds apart : the Johannesburg inner city and the making of the outcast ghetto -- The splintering metropolis : laissez-faire urbanism and unfettered suburban sprawl -- Defensive urbanism after apartheid : spatial partitioning and the new fortification aesthetic -- Entrepreneurial urbanism and the private city -- Reconciling arcadia and utopia : gated residential estates at the metropolitan edge -- Epilogue. putting Johannesburg in its place : the ordinary city
Item Description:Description based on print version record. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxix, 470 p ill., maps)
ISBN:9780822391814
0822391813

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