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Vernacular Regeneration: Low-income Housing, Private Policing and Urban Transformation in inner-city Johannesburg
Urban regeneration is currently taking place in inner-city Johannesburg. This book presents an alternative, multi-layered account for reading the process of urban change and renewal. The provision of social and affordable housing and the spread of private security are explored through the lenses of ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Anxious Joburg: The inner lives of a global South city
by Sarah Nuttall • Joel Cabrita • Derek Hook • Nicky Falkof • Sisonke Msimang • B Camminga • Aidan Mosselson • Cobus Van Staden • Mingwei Huang • Lebohang Masango • Njogu Morgan • Khangelani Moyo • Renugan Raidoo • Baeletsi TsatsiAn interdisciplinary account of the life of Johannesburg, South Africa's "global south city"Anxious Joburg focuses on Johannesburg, the largest and wealthiest city in South Africa, as a case study for the contemporary global South city. Global South cities are often characterised as sites of contrad... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020