Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa’s largest city into urban theory, on its own terms. Johannesburg is Africa’s premier metropolis.

This is often imagined in terms of the global North’s anxieties about the South: migration, crime, terrorism, disease and environmental crisis.

A pioneering account of how South Africa's three leading cities were fashioned, experienced, promoted and perceived.

This is why case numbers and deaths are so high: South Africa has done worse than the rest of Africa not despite the fact that it has a ‘more developed’ health system, but because it does.

The story of gold is also the story of Johannesburg, and in a fascinating series of photographic juxtapositions, Johannesburg Then and Now chronicles the city’s expansion from dusty mining camp to economic powerhouse.

... Johannesburg The richest gold field in the world was discovered in 1884 in a ridge of hills near Johannesburg . In some years more gold has been taken from this field than from all the mines of the United States . Many native Kaffirs ...

Far from the crowds and the usual clichés, Johannesburg is filled with hidden treasures revealed only to residents and visitors who leave the beaten track behind.

In Wake Up, This Is Joburg, writer Tanya Zack and photographer Mark Lewis offer a stunning portrait of Johannesburg and personal stories of some of the city’s ordinary, odd, and outrageous residents.

... Country became one of the most widely read novels in the history of South ... Johannesburg and the possible consequences of ignoring these. Urbanisation ... Johannesburg to look for his son Absalom. Absalom had not been in ...