Changing space, changing city : Johannesburg after apartheid / edited by Philip Harrison, Graeme Gotz, Alison Todes, Chris Wray.

"As the dynamo of South Africa's economy, Johannesburg commands a central position in the nation's imagination, and scholars throughout the world monitor the city as an exemplar of urbanity in the global South. This richly illustrated study offers detailed empirical analyses of changes in the city's...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Harrison, Philip, 1964- (Editor) Götz, Graeme (Editor) Todes, A. (Editor) Wray, Chris (Editor)
Language:	English
Published:	Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2014.
Subjects:	Johannesburg (South Africa) South Africa > Johannesburg. City planning > South Africa > Johannesburg. Post-apartheid era > South Africa > Johannesburg. Urban policy > South Africa > Johannesburg. Sociology, Urban > South Africa > Johannesburg. City planning. Sociology, Urban. Urban policy.
Physical Description:	vii, 590 pages, 57 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (some colour) ; 25 cm
Variant Title:	Johannesburg after apartheid.
Format:	Book

Contents:

1. Materialities, subjectivities and spatial transformation in Johannesburg
Section A. The macro trends. 2. The "thin oil of urbanisation"? : spatial change in Johannesburg and the Gauteng city-region
3. Poverty and inequality in the Gauteng city-region
4. The impact of policy and strategic spatial planning
5. Tracking changes in the urban built environment : an emerging perspective from the city of Johannesburg
6. Johannesburg's urban space economy
7. Changes in the natural landscape
8. Informal settlements
9. Public housing in Johannesburg
10. Transport in the shaping of space
11. Gated communities and spatial transformation in Greater Johannesburg
Section B. Area-based transformations. 12. Between fixity and flux : grappling with transience and permanence in the inner city
13. Are Johannesburg's peri-central neighbourhoods irremediably "fluid"? : local leadership and community building in Yeoville and Bertrams
14. The wrong side of the mining belt? : spatial transformations and identities in Johannesburg's southern suburbs
15. Soweto : a study in socio-spatial differentiation
16. Kliptown : resilience and despair in the face of a hundred years of planning
17. Alexandra
18. Sandton Central, 1969-2013 : from open veld to new CBD?
19. In the forest of transformation : Johannesburg's northern suburbs
20. The north-western edge
21. The 2010 World Cup and its legacy in the Ellis Park Precinct : perceptions of local residents
22. Transformation through transportation : some early impacts of Bus Rapid Transit in Orlando, Soweto
Section C: Spatial identities. 23. Footprints of Islam in Johannesburg
24. Being an immigrant and facing uncertainty in Johannesburg : the case of Somalis
25. On "spaces of hope" : exploring Hillbrow's discursive credoscapes
26. The Central Methodist Church
27. The Ethiopian Quarter
28. Urban collage : Yeoville
29. Phantoms of the past, spectres of the present : Chinese space in Johannesburg
30. The notice
31. Inner-city street traders : legality and spatial practice
32. Waste pickers/informal recyclers
33. The fear of others : responses to crime and urban transformation in Johannesburg
34. Black urban, black research : why understanding space and identity in South Africa still Matters.
1. Materialities, subjectivities and spatial transformation in Johannesburg
Section A. The macro trends. 2. The 2018thin oil of urbanisation 2019? : Spatial change in Johannesburg and the Gauteng city-region
3. Poverty and inequality in the Gauteng city-region
4. The impact of policy and strategic spatial planning
5. Tracking changes in the urban built environment : An emerging perspective from the City of Johannesburg
6. Johannesburg 2019s urban space economy
7. Changes in the natural landscape
8. Informal settlements
9. Public housing in Johannesburg
10. Transport in the shaping of space
11. Gated communities and spatial transformation in Greater Johannesburg
Section B. Area-based transformations. 12. Between fixity and flux: Grappling with transience and permanence in the inner city
13. Are Johannesburg 2019s peri-central neighbourhoods irremediably 2018fluid 2019? : Local leadership and community building in Yeoville and Bertrams
14. The wrong side of the mining belt? Spatial transformations and identities in Johannesburg 2019s southern suburbs
15. Soweto.: A study in socio-spatial differentiation
16. Kliptown: Resilience and despair in the face of a hundred years of planning
17. Alexandra
18. Sandton Central, 1969 20132013. From open veld to new CBD?
19. In the forest of transformation.: Johannesburg 2019s northern suburbs
20. The north-western edge
21. The 2010 World Cup and its legacy in the Ellis Park Precinct : Perceptions of local residents
22. Transformation through transportation: Some early impacts of Bus Rapid Transit in Orlando, Soweto
Section C: Spatial identities. 23. Footprints of Islam in Johannesburg
24. Being an immigrant and facing uncertainty in Johannesburg : The case of Somalis
25. On 2018spaces of hope 2019: Exploring Hillbrow 2019s discursive credoscapes
26. The Central Methodist Church
27. The Ethiopian Quarter
28. Urban collage : Yeoville
29. Phantoms of the past, spectres of the present : Chinese space in Johannesburg
30. The notice
31. Inner-city street traders : Legality and spatial practice
32. Waste pickers/informal recyclers
33. The fear of others : Responses to crime and urban transformation in Johannesburg
34. Black urban, black research : Why understanding space and identity in South Africa still Matters.
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