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 this critical analysis of why Birmingham became such a focal point, Bobby M. Wilson argues that AlabamaOs path to industrialism differed significantly from that in the North and Midwest.
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 ...
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, ...
... Johannesburg : R. L. Esson & Co. Mayer , P. 1971. Townsmen or Tribesmen , 2nd ed . Cape Town : Oxford University ... Johannesburg . Johannesburg : Witwatersrand University Press . Palestrant , E. ND . Johannesburg — One Hundred : A ...
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 Today: A Thriving Metropolis of Culture and .................... 3 1.3. Geographical Overview of Johannesburg ................................................ 5 1.4. Preparing for Your Johannesburg Adventure ........
... 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 ...