Taming the disorderly city : the spatial landscape of Johannesburg after apartheid / Martin J. Murray.

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Murray, Martin J.

Title & Author:

Taming the disorderly city : the spatial landscape of Johannesburg after apartheid / Martin J. Murray.

Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.

Description:

xvi, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Cornell paperbacks

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-256) and index.
Social justice and the rights to the city -- Ruin and regeneration intertwined -- The fixed and flexible city -- Disposable people at the peri-urban fringe -- The spatial dynamics of real estate capitalism -- The struggle for survival in the inner city -- Revitalization and displacement in the inner city -- The banality of indifferent urbanism.

Summary:

In postapartheid Johannesburg, tensions of race and class manifest themselves starkly in struggles over 'rights to the city'. Martin J. Murray brings together urban theory and local knowledge to draw a picture of this city, where real estate agents and the very poor fight for control of space.

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ISBN:

9780801445699 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0801445698 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780801474378 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
080147437X (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Sociology, Urban South Africa Johannesburg.
Urban renewal South Africa Johannesburg.
City planning South Africa Johannesburg.
Sociologie urbaine Afrique du Sud Johannesburg.
Rénovation urbaine Afrique du Sud Johannesburg.
City planning.
Geography.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Sociology, Urban.
Urban renewal.
Stadtentwicklung
Stadtplanung
Johannesburg (South Africa) Social conditions.
Johannesburg (South Africa) Geography.
Johannesburg (South Africa) Politics and government.
South Africa Johannesburg.
Johannesburg

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Cornell paperbacks.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 257443
Call No.: BIB 187936
Status: Available

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