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City of extremes : the spatial politics of Johannesburg / Martin J. Murray.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murray, Martin J.
- Series:
- Politics, history, and culture.
- Politics, history, and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban policy--South Africa--Johannesburg.
- Urban policy.
- Sociology, Urban--South Africa--Johannesburg.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Johannesburg (South Africa)--Geography.
- Johannesburg (South Africa).
- Johannesburg (South Africa)--Race relations.
- Johannesburg (South Africa)--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (505 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A powerful critique of urban development in greater Johannesburg since the end of apartheid in 1994.
- Contents:
- The restless urban landscape : the evolving spatial geography of Johannesburg
- The flawed promise of the high-modernist city : city building at the apex of apartheid rule
- Hollowing out the center : Johannesburg turned inside out
- Worlds apart : the Johannesburg inner city and the making of the outcast ghetto
- The splintering metropolis : laissez-faire urbanism and unfettered suburban sprawl
- Defensive urbanism after apartheid : spatial partitioning and the new fortification aesthetic
- Entrepreneurial urbanism and the private city
- Reconciling arcadia and utopia : gated residential estates at the metropolitan edge
- Epilogue. putting Johannesburg in its place : the ordinary city.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613583215
- 9781280487989
- 1280487984
- 9780822391814
- 0822391813
- OCLC:
- 1141660978
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