Murray, Martin J.

City of extremes : the spatial politics of Johannesburg / Martin J. Murray. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2011. - xxix, 470 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Politics, history, and culture .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-462) and index.

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.

9780822347477 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822347682 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2010039972


Urban policy--South Africa--Johannesburg.
Sociology, Urban--South Africa--Johannesburg.


Johannesburg (South Africa)--Geography.
Johannesburg (South Africa)--Race relations.
Johannesburg (South Africa)--Politics and government.

HN 801 / M981c 2011

307.1/160968221