Martin J. Murray

City of Extremes: The Spatial Politics of Johannesburg

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Produktbeschreibung

"Martin J. Murray navigates the slippery interfaces where mega-development, social progress, dystopian dread, racial enclaving, and mobilities of all kinds intersect, revealing both an alarming disposition to Africa's most heterogeneous city and a rough-hewn humanity despite the odds. At each step of the way, Murray is precise and impassioned in this no-holds barred analysis of the lengths politicians, businesspersons, planners, entrepreneurs, and developers will go to hold a city a down."--AbdouMaliq Simone, author of "For the City Yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities"

Produktdetails

• Politics, History, and Culture
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 729g
• ISBN-13: 9780822347682
• ISBN-10: 0822347687
• Artikelnr.: 30367462

Autorenporträt

Martin J. Murray is Professor of Urban Planning at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and Adjunct Professor at the Center for African and African-American Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of many books, including Taming the Disorderly City: The Spatial Landscape of Johannesburg after Apartheid and Revolution Deferred: The Painful Birth of Post-Apartheid South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

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