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Author:
Murray, Martin J. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80045581
Title:
Taming the disorderly city : the spatial landscape of Johannesburg after apartheid / Martin J. Murray.
Publisher:
Cornell University Press,
Copyright Date:
2008
Description:
xvi, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Sociology, Urban--Johannesburg.--Johannesburg.
Urban renewal--Johannesburg.--Johannesburg.
City planning--Johannesburg.--Johannesburg.
Johannesburg (South Africa)--Social conditions.
Johannesburg (South Africa)--Geography.
Johannesburg (South Africa)--Politics and government.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-256) and index.
Contents:
Social justice and the rights to the city -- Ruin and regeneration intertwined -- The fixed and flexible city -- Disposable people at the peri-urban fringe -- The spatial dynamics of real estate capitalism -- The struggle for survival in the inner city -- Revitalization and displacement in the inner city -- The banality of indifferent urbanism.
Series:
Cornell paperbacks
ISBN:
080147437X
9780801474378
0801445698
9780801445699
OCLC:
(OCoLC)181602169
LCCN:
2008001452
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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