Taming the disorderly city : the spatial landscape of Johannesburg after apartheid

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Title:

Author:

Murray, Martin J.

ISBN:

9781919895109

Personal Author:

Murray, Martin J.

Publication Information:

Cape Town : UCT Press, 2008.

Physical Description:

xvi, 261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Contents:

Introduction : the untamed city of fragments -- 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.

Subject Term:

Sociology, Urban -- South Africa -- Johannesburg.

Urban renewal -- South Africa -- Johannesburg.

City planning -- South Africa -- Johannesburg.

Geographic Term:

Johannesburg (South Africa) -- Social conditions.

Johannesburg (South Africa) -- Geography.

Johannesburg (South Africa) -- Politics and government.

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Summary

In post-apartheid Johannesburg, property developers and the very poor fight for control of space as the municipal administration steps aside, having abandoned residential plans to the unpredictability of market forces. This book presents a political critique of the often-ambivalent urban dynamics that have emerged after the end of apartheid.