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Why was Johannesburg built where it is from books.google.com
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.
Why was Johannesburg built where it is from books.google.com
This is often imagined in terms of the global North’s anxieties about the South: migration, crime, terrorism, disease and environmental crisis.
Why was Johannesburg built where it is from books.google.com
A powerful critique of urban development in greater Johannesburg since the end of apartheid in 1994. “Martin J. Murray navigates the slippery interfaces where mega-development, social progress, dystopian dread, racial enclaving, and ...
Why was Johannesburg built where it is from books.google.com
Features 28 of Johannesburg's culturally and historically relevant buildings. The book reveals something of the history of the city and the need to preserve the past if we want to protect the future.
Why was Johannesburg built where it is from books.google.com
The New Yorker calls this magisterial account of those years “[an] astute history.… Meredith expertly shows how the exigencies of the diamond (and then gold) rush laid the foundation for apartheid.”
Why was Johannesburg built where it is from books.google.com
This books describes the history of the city from its days as a mining camp to its position of premier metropolis in Africa.
Why was Johannesburg built where it is from books.google.com
This book investigates pragmatic approaches to urban economic development, service delivery, spatial restructuring, environmental sustainability and institutional reform in Johannesburg.
Why was Johannesburg built where it is from books.google.com
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.
Why was Johannesburg built where it is from books.google.com
"Writing the City into Being is Bremner's long-awaited collection of essays, spanning more than a decade of work on Johannesburg.
Why was Johannesburg built where it is from books.google.com
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.