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Product details:
- Publisher Duke University Press
- Date of Publication 20 June 2011
- Number of Volumes Cloth over boards
- ISBN 9780822347477
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages464 pages
- Size 250x150x15 mm
- Weight 862 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 19 photographs, 8 maps 0
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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 “enterprise culture” of neoliberal design, and as the “miasmal city” composed of residual, peripheral, and stigmatized zones characterized by signs of a new kind of marginality. He suggests that the “global cities” paradigm is inadequate to understanding the historical specificity of cities in the Global South, including the colonial mining town turned postcolonial megacity of Johannesburg.
Table of Contents:
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
