City of Extremes: The Spatial Politics of Johannesburg
English
By (author): Martin J. Murray
Combining insights from urban studies, cultural geography, and urban sociology with extensive research in South Africa, Murray reflects on the implications of Johannesburgs dual character as a city of fortified enclaves that proudly displays the ostentatious symbols of global integration and the celebrated enterprise culture of neoliberal design, and as the miasmal city composed of residual, peripheral, and stigmatized zones characterized by signs of a new kind of marginality. He suggests that the global cities paradigm is inadequate to understanding the historical specificity of cities in the Global South, including the colonial mining town turned postcolonial megacity of Johannesburg.
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