 | Taming the Disorderly City: The Spatial Landscape of Johannesburg after Apartheid Subjects: Sociology Urban -- South Africa -- Johannesburg; Urban renewal -- South Africa -- Johannesburg; City planning -- South Africa -- Johannesburg; Johannesburg (South Africa) -- Social conditions; Johannesburg (South Africa) -- Geography; Johannesburg (South; In postapartheid Johannesburg, tensions of race and class manifest themselves starkly in struggles over "rights to the city." Real-estate developers and the very poor fight for control of space as the municipal administration steps aside, almost... Martin Murray is Professor of Urban Planning, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and Adjunct Professor, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan. He is the author of several books, including The Development of Capitalism in Colonial Indochina, 1870-1940 ; South Africa : Time of Agony, Time of Destiny ; and The Revolution Deferred : The Painful Birth of Post-Apartheid South Africa , and the coeditor most recently of Cities in Contemporary Africa . |
