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 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 ...

This books describes the history of the city from its days as a mining camp to its position of premier metropolis in Africa.

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.

"Writing the City into Being is Bremner's long-awaited collection of essays, spanning more than a decade of work on Johannesburg.

Diamonds, Gold, and War is a tale of high adventure, high fi nance, and high politics that also shows the massive impact of white expansion on indigenous African societies.

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: a city of thieves and dreamers, home to more than four million inhabitants spread out over an area larger than greater London.

In Taming the Disorderly City, he provides a focused intellectual and political critique of the often-ambivalent urban dynamics that have emerged after the end of apartheid.