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Taming the Disorderly City : The Spatial Landscape of Johannesburg after Apartheid.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (280 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501717000
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Taming the Disorderly CityDDC classification:
  • 307.3/4160968221
LOC classification:
  • HN801.J64.M87 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Taming the Disorderly City -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations and Nicknames -- Introduction: The Untamed City of Fragments -- 1 Social Justice and the Rights to the City -- 2 Ruin and Regeneration Intertwined -- 3 The Fixed and Flexible City -- 4 Disposable People at the Peri-Urban Fringe -- 5 The Spatial Dynamics of Real Estate Capitalism -- 6 The Struggle for Survival in the Inner City -- 7 Revitalization and Displacement in the Inner City -- 8 The Banality of Indifferent Urbanism -- References -- Index.
Summary: In postapartheid Johannesburg, tensions of race and class manifest themselves starkly in struggles over "rights to the city." Real-estate developers and the very poor fight for control of space as the municipal administration steps aside, almost.
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Taming the Disorderly City -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations and Nicknames -- Introduction: The Untamed City of Fragments -- 1 Social Justice and the Rights to the City -- 2 Ruin and Regeneration Intertwined -- 3 The Fixed and Flexible City -- 4 Disposable People at the Peri-Urban Fringe -- 5 The Spatial Dynamics of Real Estate Capitalism -- 6 The Struggle for Survival in the Inner City -- 7 Revitalization and Displacement in the Inner City -- 8 The Banality of Indifferent Urbanism -- References -- Index.

In postapartheid Johannesburg, tensions of race and class manifest themselves starkly in struggles over "rights to the city." Real-estate developers and the very poor fight for control of space as the municipal administration steps aside, almost.

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