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1 online resource (vii, 590 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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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Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Sociology, Urban -- South Africa -- Johannesburg.
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Urban policy -- South Africa -- Johannesburg.
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City planning -- South Africa -- Johannesburg.
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Johannesburg (South Africa)
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Electronic books.
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Harrison, Philip, 1964- editor.
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| Added Title |
Johannesburg after apartheid |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Changing space, changing city : Johannesburg after apartheid. Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2014 vii, 590 pages 9781868147656 (DLC) 2015453367 |
| ISBN |
9781868147656 |
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9781868147663 (electronic bk.) |
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