Emerging Johannesburg : perspectives on the postapartheid city / edited by Richard Tomlinson [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The post-apartheid struggle for an integrated Johannesburg -- Villas of the Highveld: a cultural perspective on Johannesburg and its northern suburbs -- The race, class and space of shopping in Johannesburg -- New forms of class and racial segregation in Johannesburg: ghettos or ethnic enclaves? -- Property investors and decentralization: a case of false competition? -- Making a living in the city: clothing manufacturers in Johannesburg -- Violent crime in Johannesburg -- On becoming and belonging in African cities -- Reclaiming democratic spaces: civics and politics in post-transition Johannesburg -- HIV/AIDS: implications for local governance, housing and delivery of services -- Social differentiation and urban governance in greater Soweto: post-apartheid meadowlands -- The limits of the law: social rights and urban development -- Johannesburg Art Gallery and the urban future -- Johannesburg's futures: beyond developmentalism and global success -- Johannesburg in flight from itself: how political culture shapes urban discourse -- Negotiating the post-apartheid city.

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Johannesburg is most often compared with Sao Paulo and Los Angeles and sometimes even with Budapest, Calcutta and Jerusalem. Johannesburg reflects and informs conditions in cities around the world. As might be expected from such comparisons, South Africa's political transformation has not led to redistribution and inclusive social change in Johannesburg. In Emerging Johannesburg the contributors describe the city's transition from a post apartheid city to one with all too familiar issues such as urban/suburban divide in the city and its relationship to poverty and socio-political powe.

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