Changing space, changing city : Johannesburg after apartheid
edited by Philip Harrison, Graeme Gotz, Alison Todes, Chris Wray
| Year of publication: |
2014
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| Other Persons: | Harrison, Philip (ed.) ; Gotz, Graeme (ed.) ; Todes, Alison (ed.) ; Wray, Chris (ed.) |
| Publisher: |
Johannesburg : Wits University Press |
| Subject: | Johannesburg | Raumstruktur | Spatial structure | Stadtentwicklung | Urban development | Regionalökonomik | Regional economics | Regionalentwicklung | Regional development | Soziale Lage | Social situation | Stadtplanung | Stadtsoziologie | Sozialer Wandel | 1969-2013 |
| Description of contents: | Table of Contents [gbv.de] ; Description [loc.gov] ; Description [loc.gov] ; Description [bvbr.bib-bvb.de] ; Description [witspress.co.za] |
| Extent: | VII, 590 Seiten, 30 Seiten ungezählte Kartentafeln Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Type of publication (narrower categories): | Aufsatzsammlung ; Sammelwerk ; Collection of articles of several authors |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Mit 52 Tafeln/Karten. - Enth. 34 Beitr. 1. Materialities, subjectivities and spatial transformation in Johannesburg -- Section A. The macro trends. 2. The 'thin oil of urbanisation'? : Spatial change in Johannesburg and the Gauteng city-region -- 3. Poverty and inequality in the Gauteng city-region -- 4. The impact of policy and strategic spatial planning -- 5. Tracking changes in the urban built environment : An emerging perspective from the City of Johannesburg -- 6. Johannesburg's urban space economy -- 7. Changes in the natural landscape -- 8. Informal settlements -- 9. Public housing in Johannesburg -- 10. Transport in the shaping of space -- 11. Gated communities and spatial transformation in Greater Johannesburg -- Section B. Area-based transformations. 12. Between fixity and flux: Grappling with transience and permanence in the inner city -- 13. Are Johannesburg's peri-central neighbourhoods irremediably 'fluid'? : Local leadership and community building in Yeoville and Bertrams -- 14. The wrong side of the mining belt? Spatial transformations and identities in Johannesburg's southern suburbs -- 15. Soweto.: A study in socio-spatial differentiation -- 16. Kliptown: Resilience and despair in the face of a hundred years of planning -- 17. Alexandra -- 18. Sandton Central, 1969-2013: From open veld to new CBD? -- 19. In the forest of transformation: Johannesburg's northern suburbs -- 20. The north-western edge -- 21. The 2010 World Cup and its legacy in the Ellis Park Precinct : Perceptions of local residents -- 22. Transformation through transportation: Some early impacts of Bus Rapid Transit in Orlando, Soweto -- Section C: Spatial identities. 23. Footprints of Islam in Johannesburg -- 24. Being an immigrant and facing uncertainty in Johannesburg : The case of Somalis -- 25. On 'spaces of hope': Exploring Hillbrow's discursive credoscapes -- 26. The Central Methodist Church -- 27. The Ethiopian Quarter -- 28. Urban collage : Yeoville -- 29. Phantoms of the past, spectres of the present : Chinese space in Johannesburg -- 30. The notice -- 31. Inner-city street traders : Legality and spatial practice -- 32. Waste pickers/informal recyclers -- 33. The fear of others : Responses to crime and urban transformation in Johannesburg -- 34. Black urban, black research : Why understanding space and identity in South Africa still Matters. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-86814-765-6 ; 978-1-86814-766-3 |
| Classification: | Stadtplanung, kommunale Planung ; Städtische Gesellschaft ; Afrika |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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