City of Extremes

Martin J. Murray

Examines the relationship between evolving urban form and the changing built environment of Johannesburg after apartheid and the new modes of spatial management, regulation and control governing the use of urban space.

List of Maps viiList of Illustrations ixPreface xiAcknowledgments xxviiAbbreviations xxxiIntroduction. Spatial Politics in the Precarious City 1Part I 23Making Space: City Building and the Production of the Built Enivronment1. The Restless Urban Landscape: The Evolving Spatial Geography of Johannesburg 292. The Flawed Promise of the High-Modernist City: City Building at the Apex of Apartheid Rule 59Part II 83Unraveling Space: Centrifugal Urbanism and the Convulsive City3. Hollowing out the Center: Johannesburg Turned Inside Out 874. Worlds Apart: The Johannesburg Inner City and the Making of the Outcast Ghetto 1375. The Splintering Metropolis: Laissez-faire Urbanism and Unfettered Suburban Sprawl 173Part III 205Fortifying Space: Siege Architecture and Anxious Urbanism6. Defensive Urbanism after Apartheid: Spatial Partitioning and the New Fortification Aesthetic 2137. Entrepreneurial Urbanism and the Private City 2458. Reconciling Arcadia and Utopia: Gated Residential Estates at the Metropolitan Edge 283Epilogue. Putting Johannesburg in Its Place: The Ordinary City 321Appendix 333Notes 337Bibliography 423Index 463