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Von Joburg nach Gauteng: Transformation der City of Gold zur Global City Region?

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Zusammenfassung

Johannesburg wird in der World- und Global-City-Forschung zumeist als einzige Metropole Afrikas mit globaler Bedeutung eingeordnet. Die Agglomeration verdankt ihre Existenz der internationalen Kapitalinvestition in den Goldbergbau, war aber in ihrer 130jährigen Geschichte vielfachen Transformationen unterworfen. Seit dem Ende der Apartheid bestimmen globale Einbindung, Tertiärisierung sowie Flächen- und Bevölkerungswachstum das Bild. Der vorliegende Text analysiert sowohl die Verflechtungen mit und Abhängigkeiten von globalen Dynamiken als auch die Persistenzen und Veränderungen der national und lokal angelegten urbanen Entwicklungspfade. Ausgangspunkt sind die Global-City- bzw. Global-City-Region- und Global-Value-Chain-Debatten, inklusive der darauf bezogenen Kritik. Die Verschiebung der Perspektive von Johannesburg auf Gauteng als global eingebundene „Megaregion“ bildet die empirische Rückbindung.

Abstract

Conventional regionalisations and delimitations of cities and urban societies are increasingly questioned, empirically as well as theoretically. Based on a review of the related debate this paper identifies two analytical dimensions required in order to understand the current dynamics of urban agglomerations in a global perspective: their embedding in the worldwide circulation of capital and resources, and the complimentary nexus of local economic, political and social trajectories. Furthermore the interplay between ‘city’ and ‘region’ is interpreted as an effect of strategies of (re-) territorialisaion, which do not only address political and economic concerns, but aspects of infrastructure and location of resources as well. Conceptually, the World and Global City debate and the Global Value Chain argument already offer a range of research questions on global cities in Africa. However, without acknowledging the local path-dependencies any understanding of the profile which characterizes specific urban formations) will remain incomplete. Therefore, and based on Gauteng as a reference, we propose a synthesis of the two analytical dimensions, arguing that this two-pronged reflection enables to unravel the mutual dependency between regional/urban structures and the material and financial flows on the global scale.

Danksagung:

Wir bedanken uns bei Graeme Götz und Darlington Mushongera vom Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO) in Johannesburg für wertvolle Hinweise zur Thematik und in Bezug auf Quellen zur Region.

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Received: 2016-12-30
Accepted: 2017-4-18
Published Online: 2017-9-20
Published in Print: 2017-9-26

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