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.
In Emerging Johannesburg the contributors describe the city's transition from a post apartheid city to one with all too familiar issues such as urban/suburban divide in the city and its relationship to poverty and socio-political power, ...
The present volume, besides covering the economic and political history of Johannesburg, also deals with cultural aspects of the city including architecture, art, music, and theatre, which provide a fascinating multi-cultural portrait of ...
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 ...
... Johannesburg suffered a drought , and the old town reser- voir was really too small for the needs of the growing population . 13 These two factors combined to produce an acute water shortage . In spite of all efforts to economise , taps ...
... Johannesburg 1887 Creation of a Sanitary Board for Johannesburg 1890 Census indicates a population of 26 303 people; the 'Russian flu'reaches Johannesburg; first permanent hospital opened in Johannesburg 1892 The first train arrives in ...
... Johannesburg ? Johannesburg is my home . I find the place fascinating , frightening , stimulating and very special . Anxious or not , I love being here ; it integrates me with this earthly expe- rience called life . I've guided many ...
... Johannesburg. Johannesburg: Village Publishing. Schippers, H. (2010). The biological link between urban spaces. MArch. Dissertation. University of the Witwatersrand. Retrieved 29 November 2017 from WIReDSpace (Wits Institutional ...
... Johannesburg in particular , are in a position of great social strain . Recent xenophobic violence and strikes about ... ( Johannesburg : Gauteng Provincial Government , 2005 ) . T. De Wet , L. Patel , M. Korth and C. Forrester ...