Examines the relationship between evolving urban form and the changing built environment of Johannesburg after apartheid and the new modes of spatial management, regulation and control governing the use of urban space.
Examines the relationship between evolving urban form and the changing built environment of Johannesburg after apartheid and the new modes of spatial management, regulation and control governing the use of urban space.
List of Maps vii List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xxvii Abbreviations xxxi Introduction. Spatial Politics in the Precarious City 1 Part I 23 Making Space: City Building and the Production of the Built Enivronment 1. The Restless Urban Landscape: The Evolving Spatial Geography of Johannesburg 29 2. The Flawed Promise of the High-Modernist City: City Building at the Apex of Apartheid Rule 59 Part II 83 Unraveling Space: Centrifugal Urbanism and the Convulsive City 3. Hollowing out the Center: Johannesburg Turned Inside Out 87 4. Worlds Apart: The Johannesburg Inner City and the Making of the Outcast Ghetto 137 5. The Splintering Metropolis: Laissez-faire Urbanism and Unfettered Suburban Sprawl 173 Part III 205 Fortifying Space: Siege Architecture and Anxious Urbanism 6. Defensive Urbanism after Apartheid: Spatial Partitioning and the New Fortification Aesthetic 213 7. Entrepreneurial Urbanism and the Private City 245 8. Reconciling Arcadia and Utopia: Gated Residential Estates at the Metropolitan Edge 283 Epilogue. Putting Johannesburg in Its Place: The Ordinary City 321 Appendix 333 Notes 337 Bibliography 423 Index 463
List of Maps vii List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xxvii Abbreviations xxxi Introduction. Spatial Politics in the Precarious City 1 Part I 23 Making Space: City Building and the Production of the Built Enivronment 1. The Restless Urban Landscape: The Evolving Spatial Geography of Johannesburg 29 2. The Flawed Promise of the High-Modernist City: City Building at the Apex of Apartheid Rule 59 Part II 83 Unraveling Space: Centrifugal Urbanism and the Convulsive City 3. Hollowing out the Center: Johannesburg Turned Inside Out 87 4. Worlds Apart: The Johannesburg Inner City and the Making of the Outcast Ghetto 137 5. The Splintering Metropolis: Laissez-faire Urbanism and Unfettered Suburban Sprawl 173 Part III 205 Fortifying Space: Siege Architecture and Anxious Urbanism 6. Defensive Urbanism after Apartheid: Spatial Partitioning and the New Fortification Aesthetic 213 7. Entrepreneurial Urbanism and the Private City 245 8. Reconciling Arcadia and Utopia: Gated Residential Estates at the Metropolitan Edge 283 Epilogue. Putting Johannesburg in Its Place: The Ordinary City 321 Appendix 333 Notes 337 Bibliography 423 Index 463
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