"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"
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
