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A Hedonist S Guide To Johannesburg
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Author : Andrew Ludwig
language : en
Publisher: HG2
Release Date : 2010-05
A Hedonist S Guide To Johannesburg written by Andrew Ludwig and has been published by HG2 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05 with Johannesburg (South Africa) categories.
The beating heart of corporate South Africa, Johannesburg's history is built on the gold and diamonds of Witwatersrand. Dynamic and cosmopolitan, travelers can explore the vibrant restaurants, bars and cultural life before heading off for adventure in the Kruger National Park. The guide's clean, block-color snakeskin leather effect flexicover is as stylish as ever and 25 percent lighter than previous hardcover editions.
Portrait With Keys The City Of Johannesburg Unlocked
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Author : Ivan Vladislavic
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2009-06-01
Portrait With Keys The City Of Johannesburg Unlocked written by Ivan Vladislavic and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-01 with Travel categories.
“Surely one of the most ingenious love letters—full of violence, fear, humour, and cunning—ever addressed to a city.” —Geoff Dyer This dazzling portrait of Johannesburg is one of the most haunting, poetic pieces of reportage about a metropolis since Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City. Through precisely crafted snapshots, Ivan Vladislavic observes the unpredictable, day-today transformation of his embattled city: the homeless using manholes as cupboards, a public statue slowly cannibalized for scrap. Most poignantly he charts the small, devastating changes along the postapartheid streets: walls grow higher, neighborhoods are gated off, the keys multiply. Security—insecurity?—is the growth industry. Vladislavic, described as “one of the most imaginative minds at work in South African literature today” (André Brink), delivers “one of the best things ever written about a great, if schizophrenic, city, and an utterly true picture of the new South Africa” (Christopher Hope).
Imagining The Edgy City
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Author : Loren Kruger
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-30
Imagining The Edgy City written by Loren Kruger and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
"All roads lead to Johannesburg," remarks the narrator of Alan Paton's novel Cry, The Beloved Country. Taking this quote as her impetus, Loren Kruger guides readers into the heart of South Africa's largest city. Exploring a wide range of fiction, film, architecture, performance, and urban practices from trading to parades, Imagining the Edgy City traverses Johannesburg's rich cultural terrain over the last century. The "edgy city" in Kruger's exploration refers not only to persistent boundaries between the haves and have-nots but also to the cosmopolitan diversity and innovation that has emerged from Johannesburg. The book begins with the building boom, performances and uneven but noteworthy inter-racial exchange that marked the city's fiftieth-anniversary celebration at the Empire Exhibition in 1936. This celebration rapidly gave way to the political repression and civil unrest that characterized South Africa from 1950 to 1990. Yet poetry, drama, fiction, and photography continued to thrive, bearing witness not only against apartheid but to alternatives beyond it. In the late twentieth century, the not quite post-apartheid condition fired the artistic imaginations of film makers as well as novelists. Urban neglect, rising crime, and the influx of migrants inspired noir cinema-like Michael Hammon's Wheels and Deals-and fiction about migration from Achmat Dangor to Phaswane Mpe, and in the twenty-first, urban renewal has produced public art that incorporates the desire lines of newcomers as well as natives. Alongside well-known artists such as Nadine Gordimer, William Kentridge, and David Goldblatt, the book introduces many artists, architects, writers, and other chroniclers who have hitherto received little attention abroad. Ultimately, Johannesburg emerges as a city whose negotiation of the tensions between incivility and innovation invites comparisons with modern conurbations across the world, not only African cities such as Dakar, or other cities of the "south" such as Bogotá, but also with major metropolises in North America and Europe from Chicago to Paris. A multi-faceted work that speaks to scholars in urban studies, literature, and history, Imagining the Edgy City is a rich example of interdisciplinary scholarship at its best.
Panic City
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Author : Martin J. Murray
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-10
Panic City written by Martin J. Murray and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-10 with Social Science categories.
Despite the end of white minority rule and the transition to parliamentary democracy, Johannesburg remains haunted by its tortured history of racial segregation and burdened by enduring inequalities in income, opportunities for stable work, and access to decent housing. Under these circumstances, Johannesburg has become one of the most dangerous cities in the world, where the yawning gap between the 'haves' and 'have-nots' has fueled a turn toward redistribution through crime. While wealthy residents have retreated into heavily fortified gated communities and upscale security estates, the less affluent have sought refuge in retrofitting their private homes into safe houses, closing off public streets, and hiring the services of private security companies to protect their suburban neighborhoods. Panic City is an exploration of urban fear and its impact on the city's evolving siege architecture, the transformation of policing, and obsession with security that has fueled unprecedented private consumption of 'protection services.' Martin Murray analyzes the symbiotic relationship between public law enforcement agencies, private security companies, and neighborhood associations, wherein buyers and sellers of security have reinvented ways of maintaining outdated segregation practices that define the urban poor as suspects.
Taming The Disorderly City
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Author : Martin J. Murray
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Taming The Disorderly City written by Martin J. Murray and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with City planning categories.
The Story Of An African Crisis
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Author : Fydell Edmund Garrett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
The Story Of An African Crisis written by Fydell Edmund Garrett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Jameson's Raid, 1895-1896 categories.
City Of Extremes
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Author : Martin J. Murray
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Release Date : 2011-06-20
City Of Extremes written by Martin J. Murray and has been published by Duke University Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-20 with Social Science categories.
City of Extremes is a powerful critique of urban development in greater Johannesburg since the end of apartheid in 1994. Martin J. Murray describes how a loose alliance of city builders—including real estate developers, large-scale property owners, municipal officials, and security specialists—has sought to remake Johannesburg in the upbeat image of a world-class city. By creating new sites of sequestered luxury catering to the comfort, safety, and security of affluent urban residents, they have produced a new spatial dynamic of social exclusion, effectively barricading the mostly black urban poor from full participation in the mainstream of urban life. This partitioning of the cityscape is enabled by an urban planning environment of limited regulation or intervention into the prerogatives of real estate capital. Combining insights from urban studies, cultural geography, and urban sociology with extensive research in South Africa, Murray reflects on the implications of Johannesburg’s 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.
The Near North
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Author : Ivan Vladislavić
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan South africa
Release Date : 2024-03-01
The Near North written by Ivan Vladislavić and has been published by Pan Macmillan South africa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Near North is a vivid account of life in Johannesburg in times of crisis. From the stony ridges of Langermann Kop in Kensington to the tree-lined avenues of Houghton, we follow the writer through the city's streets, meeting its ghosts and journeying through time and (often circumscribed) space, finding meaning in the everyday and incidental. At once an echo of Ivan Vladislavić’s award-winning Portrait with Keys and an original work of intense acuity and quiet power, The Near North is both intimate and expansive, ranging from small domestic dramas to great public spectacles. Wryly playful at times, fiercely serious at others, it is certain to move and delight all who accompany the writer through its pages.
Cities Of Entanglements
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Author : Barbara Heer
language : en
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2019-09-30
Cities Of Entanglements written by Barbara Heer and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-30 with Social Science categories.
How do people live together in cities shaped by inequality? This comparative ethnography of two African cities, Maputo and Johannesburg, presents a new narrative about social life in cities often described as sharply divided. Based on the ethnography of entangled lives unfolding in a township and in a suburb in Johannesburg, in a bairro and in an elite neighborhood in Maputo, the book includes case studies of relations between domestic workers and their employers, failed attempts by urban elites to close off their neighborhoods, and entanglements emerging in religious spaces and in shopping malls. Systematizing comparison as an experience-based method, the book makes an important contribution to urban anthropology, comparative urbanism and urban studies.
Ponte City
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Author : Norman Ohler
language : en
Publisher: David Philip Publishers
Release Date : 2002
Ponte City written by Norman Ohler and has been published by David Philip Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Johannesburg (South Africa) categories.
In the early 1990s, Lucy moves from Soweto to Ponte City in Johannesburg. Once white society's architectural showpiece for luxurious living, Ponte is now a teeming hive of newly liberated people, who have come to seek wealth in the city of gold.