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| Title: | Changing space, changing city: Johannesburg after Apartheid |
| Editors: | Harrison, Philip Gotz, Graeme Todes, Alison Wray, Chris |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Pages: | 590 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | Johannesburg |
| Publisher: | Wits University Press |
| ISBN: | 9781868147656 |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | towns neighbourhoods urban planning urban sociology |
| Abstract: | 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 study offers detailed empirical analyses of changes in the city's physical space, as well as chapters on the character of specific neighborhoods and the social identities being forged within them. Informing all of these is a consideration of underlying economic, social, and political processes shaping the wider Gauteng region. The book offers overviews of the rapid and complex spatial developments that have taken place in Johannesburg since the end of apartheid, along with glimpses into life on the streets and behind the walls of the city. The book has three sections. Section A provides an overview of macro spatial trends and the policies that have influenced them. Issues addressed include poverty and inequality, changes in the natural landscape, informal settlements, urban housing, gated communities, and transport. Section B explores the shaping of the city at district and suburban level, revealing the peculiarity of processes in different areas, including Yeoville, Bertrams, Soweto, Kliptown, Alexandra, and Sandton Central. This analysis elucidates the larger trends, while identifying shifts that are not easily detected at the macro level. Section C is an assembly of chapters and short vignettes that focus on the interweaving of place and identity at a micro level. Subjects include Islam, the Central Methodist Church, the Ethiopian quarter, Chinese spaces, Somali immigrants, street traders, waste pickers, and responses to crime. [ASC Leiden abstract] |