Murray City of Extremes

The Spatial Politics of Johannesburg
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9181-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 504 Seiten

Reihe: Politics, history, and culture

A powerful critique of urban development in greater Johannesburg since the end of apartheid in 1994.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murray, Martin J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Martin J. Murray is Professor of Urban Planning at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and Adjunct Professor at the Center for African and African-American Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of many books, including Taming the Disorderly City: The Spatial Landscape of Johannesburg after Apartheid and Revolution Deferred: The Painful Birth of Post-Apartheid South Africa.