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1 online resource (189 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms; 1. Thinking with and through Johannesburg; Introduction; The not-so-extreme city; Situating Johannesburg's inner-city; Contemporary urban governance: between neoliberalism and developmentalism; Cities as works in progress; Structure of the book; Notes; References; 2. An overburdened process: the competing agendas, imperatives; Introduction; Housing after apartheid; Conflicting regeneration agendas |
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Competing concerns and limitations to the developmental potential of regenerationConclusion: neither the market nor development prevail; Notes; References; 3. The contradictory praxis of regeneration; Introduction; Entrepreneurial urbanism and the pioneering habitus in inner-city Johannesburg; 'We're here, we live it every day': engaging with and embracing change in the inner-city; Torn between competing demands; Conclusion: a contradictory, localised process; Notes; References; 4. Urban management and security: private policing, atmospheres of control and everyday practices; Introduction |
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The 'precinct and project approach' and exercising spatial capitalEveryday policing and social-spatial order; Domestication by football; Security and communal life; Conclusion: between revanchism and the everyday; Notes; References; 5. Ambiguous experiences of regeneration: spatial capital, agency and living in-between; Introduction; Integration and urban change; Between the township and the suburb; On agency and acceptance; Conclusion; Notes; References; 6. The space that regeneration makes: regulation, security and everyday life; Introduction; Regulation and control in inner-city buildings |
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Inhabiting and appropriating space, transforming the inner-cityConclusion; Notes; References; 7. Conclusion: towards a vernacular theorisation of urban change; Vernacular approaches to regeneration; Vernacular as universal condition; Note; References; Index |
| Summary |
Urban regeneration is currently taking place in inner-city Johannesburg. This book presents an alternative, multi-layered account for reading the process of urban change and renewal. The provision of social and affordable housing and the spread of private security are explored through the lenses of neoliberal urbanism, gentrification, the privatisation of public space and revanchist policing. This book interrogates these concepts and challenges their assumptions based on new qualitative and ethnographic evidence emerging out of Johannesburg. Dated concepts in Critical Urban Studies are re-evaluated and the book calls for an alternative, adaptable approach, focusing on how we develop a vocabulary and creative understanding of urban regeneration. This book is an outstanding contribution to theoretical and comparative approaches to understanding cities and processes of urban change. It offers practical insights and experiences which will be of considerable use to practitioners, policy-makers and urban planning students |
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Print version record |
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Urban renewal -- South Africa -- Johannesburg
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Housing rehabilitation -- South Africa -- Johannesburg
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Urban policy -- South Africa -- Johannesburg
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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CBD.
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gentrification.
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Johannesburg.
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low income housing.
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South African cities.
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urban geography.
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urban regeneration.
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urban regeneration in Johannesburg.
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urban renewal.
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urban studies.
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urban transformation.
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vernular regeneration.
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Housing rehabilitation.
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Urban policy.
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Urban renewal.
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South Africa -- Johannesburg.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351719230 |
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1351719238 |
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