Taming the Disorderly City : The Spatial Landscape of Johannesburg after Apartheid.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (280 pages)
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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Johannesburg (South Africa) - Politics and government.