South African Urban Imaginaries Cases From Johannesburg
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South African Urban Imaginaries Cases From Johannesburg
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Author : Richard Ballard
language : en
Publisher: GCRO
Release Date : 2022-06-01
South African Urban Imaginaries Cases From Johannesburg written by Richard Ballard and has been published by GCRO this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-01 with Architecture categories.
How do government officials, elected politicians, powerful economic actors and ordinary people think and talk about the urban geography of South Africa? How do they describe and represent change that is happening in cities, towns and villages? Do they consider these changes to be good or bad? How do they think such places should change? What do they do to try to bring about the changes they desire? Competing answers to these questions have been at the centre of South Africa’s urban development. Through the 19th and 20th centuries, white minority governments straddled quite contradictory imaginaries about who could build lives for themselves in urban areas and on what terms. Ordinary people held their own urban imaginaries that were quite different to those of white minority governments, and were core to the fight for democracy. In the democratic era, a range of official and popular imaginaries offer diverse visions on how South Africans should be transformed. In an earlier collection produced under the GCRO Spatial Imaginaries project, we explored the sometimes contradictory nature of post-apartheid urban visions with, for example, with some promoting the creation of new urban settlements on greenfield sites, and others attempting to densify and diversify long urbanised spaces. Research Report 13, South African urban imaginaries: Cases from Johannesburg, is a second edited collection under the Spatial Imaginaries project, and it uses a series of cases from Johannesburg that illustrate the interactions between urban imaginaries and the material city. These cases include: the depiction of central business districts in film as spaces of aspiration; the way in which the imaginaries of developers in Hillbrow were shaped by the lives of those living there; the imaginaries of Alexandra Renewal Project practitioners; the way in which residents of Brixton understand diversity; and the construction of two new bridges across the M1 to better connect Sandton and Alexandra.
Reimagining Urban Planning In Africa
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Author : Patrick Brandful Cobbinah
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-12-21
Reimagining Urban Planning In Africa written by Patrick Brandful Cobbinah and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-21 with Law categories.
This book analyses urban planning in Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone Africa, exploring its history and advocating for new approaches. In a climate changing world, cities need to be reimagined and designed to be more sustainable, but despite being one of the fastest urbanising continents, Africa has generally weak urban planning systems. The chapters adopt multi-disciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches, combining insights from urban studies and policy sciences, emphasising existing gaps, particularly in decision-making, planning practice and inclusiveness, to offer an in-depth analysis of urban planning in Africa. The authors advocate for the reimagination of urban planning, debating new institutionalism, digital infrastructure, climate urbanism, gated communities, and smart mobility. The chapters provide both theoretical and practical contributions, and advance thinking, policymaking, and implementation of sustainable urban planning approaches in Africa, thus making the book indispensable for advanced students, researchers, and practitioners alike.
Research In Urban Sociology
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Author : Mark Clapson
language : en
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Release Date : 2010-12-14
Research In Urban Sociology written by Mark Clapson and has been published by Emerald Group Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-14 with Social Science categories.
Presents contributions in comparative suburban studies for urban regions, not just in Europe and the United States but also metropolitan regions in China, India and other areas of the world. This title examines the patterns of suburban development in metropolitan regions around the globe.
Urban Neighbourhood Formations
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Author : Hilal Alkan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-03-04
Urban Neighbourhood Formations written by Hilal Alkan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-04 with Science categories.
This book examines the formation of urban neighbourhoods in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. It departs from ‘neighbourhoods’ to consider identity, coexistence, solidarity, and violence in relations to a place. Urban Neighbourhood Formations revolves around three major aspects of making and unmaking of neighbourhoods: spatial and temporal boundaries of neighbourhoods, neighbourhoods as imagined and narrated entities, and neighbourhood as social relations. With extensive case studies from Johannesburg to Istanbul and from Jerusalem to Delhi, this volume shows how spatial amenities, immaterial processes of narrating and dreaming, and the lasting effect of intimacies and violence in a neighbourhood are intertwined and negotiated over time in the construction of moral orders, urban practices, and political identities at large. This book offers insights into neighbourhood formations in an age of constant mobility and helps us understand the grassroots-level dynamics of xenophobia and hostility, as much as welcoming and openness. It would be of interest for both academics and more general audiences, as well as for students of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Urban Studies and Anthropology.
Homes Apart
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Author : Anthony Lemon
language : en
Publisher: David Philip Publishers
Release Date : 1991
Homes Apart written by Anthony Lemon 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 1991 with Apartheid categories.
"Well written and with an extensive bibliography and maps of the urban areas, the volume is an essential source for understanding South Africa's urban future as well as for documenting the legacy of apartheid on South African urbanization." -- Choice ..". an illuminating look at one of the twentieth century's most ignominious failures in social engineering." -- Journal of Interdisciplinary History This book examines the legacy of apartheid in nine of South Africa's major cities (including Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Johannesburg, and Pretoria), the factors that have influenced their distinctive development, and the possible direction and patterns of urban change in a post-apartheid society.
The Apartheid City And Beyond
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Author : David M. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-09-02
The Apartheid City And Beyond written by David M. Smith and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-02 with Science categories.
This book explains how apartheid changed South Africa's cities, how people responded to regain some control over urban life, and how the forces of urbanization held back under apartheid will affect the post-apartheid era.
Crisis Urbanism And Postcolonial African Cities In Postmillennial Cinema
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Author : Addamms Mututa
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-10-09
Crisis Urbanism And Postcolonial African Cities In Postmillennial Cinema written by Addamms Mututa and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-09 with Science categories.
This book provides a framework to rethink postcoloniality and urbanism from African perspectives. Bringing together multidisciplinary perspectives on African crises through postmillennial films, the book addresses the need to situate global south cultural studies within the region. The book employs film criticism and semiotics as devices to decode contemporary cultures of African cities, with a specific focus on crisis. Drawing on a variety of contemporary theories on cities of the global south, especially Africa, the book sifts through nuances of crisis urbanism within postmillennial African films. In doing so the book offers unique perspectives that move beyond the confines of sociological or anthropological studies of cities. It argues that crisis has become a mainstay reality of African cities and thus occupies a central place in the way these cities may be theorized or imagined. The book considers crises of six African cities: nonentity in post-apartheid Johannesburg, laissez faire economies of Kinshasa, urban commons in Nairobi, hustlers in postwar Monrovia, latent revolt in Cairo, and cantonments in postwar Luanda, which offer useful insights on African cities today. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of urban studies, urban geography, urban sociology, cultural studies, and media studies.
South African Urban Change Three Decades After Apartheid
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Author : Anthony Lemon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
South African Urban Change Three Decades After Apartheid written by Anthony Lemon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
This book provides an analysis of South African urban change over the past three decades. It draws on a seminal text, Homes Apart, and revisits conclusions drawn in that collection that marked the final phases of urban apartheid. It highlights changes in demography, social as well as economic structure and their differential spatial expression across a range of urban sites in South Africa. The evidence presented in this book points to a very complex set of narratives in urban South Africa and one that cannot be reduced to a singular statement so the conclusions of the various investigations are in many ways open. As urban apartheid represented one clear outcome, its post-apartheid urban legacies varies greatly from city to city. As such this book is a great resource to students and academics focused on urban change in South African cities since the demise of apartheid, and scholars of urban policy-making in South Africa and Southern urbanists generally.
The Emergence Of The South African Metropolis African Edition
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Author : Vivian Bickford-Smith
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-09-05
The Emergence Of The South African Metropolis African Edition written by Vivian Bickford-Smith and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-05 with History categories.
Focusing on South Africa's three main cities - Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Durban - this book explores South African urban history from the late nineteenth century onwards. In particular, it examines the metropolitan perceptions and experiences of both black and white South Africans, as well as those of visitors, especially visitors from Britain and North America. Drawing on a rich array of city histories, travel writing, novels, films, newspapers, radio and television programs, and oral histories, Vivian Bickford-Smith focuses on the consequences of the depictions of the South African metropolis and the 'slums' they contained, and especially on how senses of urban belonging and geography helped create and reinforce South African ethnicities and nationalisms. This ambitious and pioneering account, spanning more than a century, will be welcomed by scholars and students of African history, urban history, and historical geography.
The Emergence Of The South African Metropolis
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Author : Vivian Bickford-Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
The Emergence Of The South African Metropolis written by Vivian Bickford-Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Cities and towns categories.
A pioneering account of how South Africa's three leading cities were fashioned, experienced, promoted and perceived.