Introduction Spatial Politics in the Precarious City

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Maps vii
4. List of Illustrations ix
5. Preface xi
6. Acknowledgments xxvii
7. Abbreviations xxxi
8. Introduction Spatial Politics in the Precarious City 1
9. Part I. Making Space: City Building and the Production of the Built Environment
10. Chapter 1. The Restless Urban Landscape: The Evolving Spatial Geography of Johannesburg 25
11. Chapter 2. The Flawed Promise of the High-Modernist City: City Building at the Apex of Apartheid Rule 59
12. Part II. Unraveling Space: Centrifugal Urbanism and the Convulsive City
13. Chapter 3. Hollowing out the Center: Johannesburg Turned Inside Out 85
14. Chapter 4. Worlds Apart: The Johannesburg Inner City and the Making of the Outcast Ghetto 137
15. Chapter 5. The Splintering Metropolis: Laissez-faire Urbanism and Unfettered Suburban Sprawl 173
16. Part III. Fortifying Space: Siege Architecture and Anxious Urbanism
17. Chapter 6. Defensive Urbanism after Apartheid: Spatial Partitioning and the New Fortification Aesthetic 207
18. Chapter 7. Entrepreneurial Urbanism and the Private City 245
19. Chapter 8. Reconciling Arcadia and Utopia: Gated Residential Estates at the Metropolitan Edge 283
20. Epilogue Putting Johannesburg in Its Place: The Ordinary City 321
21. Appendix 333
22. Notes 337
23. Bibliography 423
24. Index 463