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Who built Jozi? : discovering memory at Wits Junction / Luli Callinicos ; edited by Hugh Lewin.
Fine Arts Library DT2405.J6557 C35 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Callinicos, Luli.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buildings.
- Johannesburg (South Africa)--History.
- Johannesburg (South Africa).
- Johannesburg (South Africa)--History--Pictorial works.
- Buildings--South Africa--Johannesburg.
- South Africa--Johannesburg.
- Genre:
- History.
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 179 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- "If you stand on the hill at the far corner of Louis Botha Avenue and Boundary Road in Parktown, Johannesburg, and look northwards, you will see the road sloping down to the thickly forested suburbs below. A few paces down the hill on your left is an unlovely but historic beacon ... now part of a reinterpreted landscape, called Wits Junction, a uniquely historical precinct. Jozi is noted for its diversity - if there was the crassness of naked commerce, there were also the more subtle, countervailing cultures of millions of men and women who came to make their home or occupation in Johannesburg. In Who Built Jozi? Luli Callinicos weaves a fascinating fabric, exploring the foundations of Johannesburg by making the connections between the legacy of those first newcomers to the city and today's post-apartheid generation living in the residential complex, a conversation between the present and the past."--Back cover.
- Contents:
- The Wits Junction project
- What's in a name?
- Compound of the rich
- The Gold Rush
- Finding the mind of the city
- The migrant labour system
- Challenging conventional wisdom
- The myth of the empty land
- Jozi after Union
- Rush to become a city
- Droughts, depression and newcomers to Jozi
- Wits in the 1930s and 1940s
- On the brink of apartheid
- Parktown in decline
- Who built Jozi?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-179).
- ISBN:
- 9781868146079
- 1868146073
- OCLC:
- 829352610
- Publisher Number:
- 99975450492
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