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Duke University Press
Language
English
Pages
470

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Subjects
Politics and government, Urban Sociology, Race relations, Urban policy, Geography, Johannesburg (south africa), history, Sociology, South africa, politics and government
Places
Johannesburg, Johannesburg (South Africa), South Africa

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City of Extremes: The Spatial Politics of Johannesburg
2011, Duke University Press
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City of Extremes: The Spatial Politics of Johannesburg
2011, Duke University Press
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Table of Contents

The restless urban landscape : the evolving spatial geography of Johannesburg
The flawed promise of the high-modernist city : city building at the apex of apartheid rule
Hollowing out the center : Johannesburg turned inside out
Worlds apart : the Johannesburg inner city and the making of the outcast ghetto
The splintering metropolis : laissez-faire urbanism and unfettered suburban sprawl
Defensive urbanism after apartheid : spatial partitioning and the new fortification aesthetic
Entrepreneurial urbanism and the private city
Reconciling arcadia and utopia : gated residential estates at the metropolitan edge
Epilogue. putting Johannesburg in its place : the ordinary city.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series
Politics, history, and culture, Politics, history, and culture

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
307.1/160968221
Library of Congress
HN801.J64 M86 2011, HN801.J64

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Pagination
xxix, 470 p. :
Number of pages
470

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Open Library
OL25074497M
ISBN 13
9780822347477, 9780822347682
LCCN
2010039972
OCLC/WorldCat
666878017

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