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Author Murray, Martin J., author.

Title Taming the disorderly city : the spatial landscape of Johannesburg after apartheid / Martin J. Murray.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations
text rdacontent
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Social justice and the rights to the city -- Ruin and regeneration intertwined -- The fixed and flexible city -- Disposable people at the peri-urban fringe -- The spatial dynamics of real estate capitalism -- The struggle for survival in the inner city -- Revitalization and displacement in the inner city -- The banality of indifferent urbanism.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Sociology, Urban -- South Africa -- Johannesburg.
Urban renewal -- South Africa -- Johannesburg.
City planning -- South Africa -- Johannesburg.
Johannesburg (South Africa) -- Social conditions.
Johannesburg (South Africa) -- Geography.
Johannesburg (South Africa) -- Politics and government.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Murray, Martin J. Taming the disorderly city : the spatial landscape of Johannesburg after apartheid. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008 xvi, 261 pages ; 24 cm 9780801474378
ISBN 9780801445699 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801474378 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781501717000 (e-book)

 
    
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