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Section A: The Macro Trends

Chapter 1 Materialities, subjectivities and spatial transformation in Johannesburg - Philip Harrison, Graeme Gotz, Alison Todes and Chris Wray

Chapter 2 The ‘thin oil of urbanisation’? Spatial change in Johannesburg and the Gauteng city-region - Graeme Gotz, Chris Wray and Brian Mubiwa

Chapter 4 The impact of policy and strategic spatial planning - Alison Todes

Chapter 9 Public housing in Johannesburg - Sarah Charlton

Section B: Area based Transformations

Chapter 14 The wrong side of the mining belt? Spatial transformations and identities in Johannesburg’s southern suburbs - Philip Harrison and Tanya Zack

Chapter 16 Kliptown: Resilience and despair in the face of a hundred years of planning - Hilton Judin, Naomi Roux and Tanya Zack

Section C: Spatial Identities

Chapter 23 Footprints of Islam in Johannesburg - Yasmeen Dinath, Yusuf Patel and Rashid Seedat

Chapter 26 The Central Methodist Church - Christa Kuljian

Chapter 29 Phantoms of the past, spectres of the present: Chinese space in Johannesburg - Philip Harrison, Khangelani Moyo and Yan Yang

Chapter 30 The notice - Caroline Wanjiku Kihato

Chapter 32 Waste pickers/informal recyclers - Sarah Charlton

Contributors

Photographic credits

Acronyms

List of plates

List of figures

List of tables

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Publié par	WITS University Press
Date de parution	01 octobre 2014
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781868148134
Langue	English
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Published in South Africa by
Wits University Press
1 Jan Smuts Avenue
Johannesburg, 2001
www.witspress.co.za
Published edition © Wits University Press 2014
Compilation © Edition editors 2014
Chapters © Individual contributors 2014
Images and maps © Individual copyright holders 2014
Editors: Philip Harrison, Graeme Gotz, Alison Todes, Chris Wray
First published 2014
ISBN: 978-1-86814-765-6 (print)
ISBN: 978-1-86814-766-3 (digital)
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Cover artwork: Windows, Ponte City, 2008–2010 by Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse, courtesy Goodman Gallery
Design and layout by Peter Bosman
Indexed by Clifford Perusset
Copyedited by Lee Smith
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Contents
Preface
Cartography
1 Materialities, subjectivities and spatial transformation in Johannesburg Philip Harrison, Graeme Gotz, Alison Todes and Chris Wray
SECTION A: THE MACRO TRENDS
2 The ‘thin oil of urbanisation’? Spatial change in Johannesburg and the Gauteng city-region
Graeme Gotz, Chris Wray and Brian Mubiwa
3 Poverty and inequality in the Gauteng city-region
David Everatt
4 The impact of policy and strategic spatial planning
Alison Todes
5 Tracking changes in the urban built environment: An emerging perspective from the City of Johannesburg
Peter Ahmad and Herman Pienaar
6 Johannesburg’s urban space economy
Graeme Gotz and Alison Todes
7 Changes in the natural landscape
Maryna Storie
8 Informal settlements
Marie Huchzermeyer, Aly Karam and Miriam Maina
9 Public housing in Johannesburg
Sarah Charlton
10 Transport in the shaping of space
Mathetha Mokonyama and Brian Mubiwa
11 Gated communities and spatial transformation in Greater Johannesburg
Karina Landman and Willem Badenhorst
SECTION B: AREA-BASED TRANSFORMATIONS
12 Between fixity and flux: Grappling with transience and permanence in the inner city
Yasmeen Dinath
13 Are Johannesburg’s peri-central neighbourhoods irremediably ‘fluid’? Local leadership and community building in Yeoville and Bertrams
Claire Bénit-Gbaffou
14 The wrong side of the mining belt? Spatial transformations and identities in Johannesburg’s southern suburbs
Philip Harrison and Tanya Zack
15 Soweto: A study in socio-spatial differentiation
Philip Harrison and Kirsten Harrison
16 Kliptown: Resilience and despair in the face of a hundred years of planning
Hilton Judin, Naomi Roux and Tanya Zack
17 Alexandra
Philip Harrison, Adrian Masson and Luke Sinwell
18 Sandton Central, 1969–2013: From open veld to new CBD?
Keith Beavon and Pauline Larsen
19 In the forest of transformation: Johannesburg’s northern suburbs
Alan Mabin
20 The north-western edge
Neil Klug, Margot Rubin and Alison Todes
21 The 2010 World Cup and its legacy in the Ellis Park Precinct: Perceptions of local residents
Aly Karam and Margot Rubin
22 Transformation through transportation: Some early impacts of Bus Rapid Transit in Orlando, Soweto
Christo Venter and Eunice Vaz
SECTION C: SPATIAL IDENTITIES
23 Footprints of Islam in Johannesburg
Yasmeen Dinath, Yusuf Patel and Rashid Seedat
24 Being an immigrant and facing uncertainty in Johannesburg: The case of Somalis
Samadia Sadouni
25 On ‘spaces of hope’: Exploring Hillbrow’s discursive credoscapes
Tanja Winkler
26 The Central Methodist Church
Christa Kuljian
27 The Ethiopian Quarter
Hannah le Roux
28 Urban collage: Yeoville
Naomi Roux
29 Phantoms of the past, spectres of the present: Chinese space in Johannesburg
Philip Harrison, Khangelani Moyo and Yan Yang
30 The notice
Caroline Wanjiku Kihato
31 Inner-city street traders: Legality and spatial practice
Puleng Makhetha and Margot Rubin
32 Waste pickers/informal recyclers
Sarah Charlton
33 The fear of others: Responses to crime and urban transformation in Johannesburg
Teresa Dirsuweit
34 Black urban, black research: Why understanding space and identity in South Africa still matters
Nqobile Malaza
Contributors
Photographic credits
Acronyms
List of plates
List of figures
List of tables
Index
Preface
This book is published in 2014 – the year South Africa celebrates two decades of democracy. It offers an account of complex and often bewildering transformations in Johannesburg – South Africa’s premier city – since the end of apartheid. We focus on the city’s physical form, but relate this to trends across the economic, political, social and cultural domains, thus attempting to bridge scholarly traditions that tend to emphasise either the ‘material’ or ‘cultural’ dimensions of the city.
Our major contribution to the already diverse and lively literature on Johannesburg is to provide a multi-layered analysis of urban change, drawing on new and updated sources of empirical data, and informed by the perspectives of a range of scholars. Our primary aim is to understand change in post-apartheid South Africa, but clearly Johannesburg’s story has the potential to inform understandings of the processes shaping urban space globally.
The book is the first product of a larger initiative of engagement with change in the Gauteng city-region that includes the other major metropolitan hubs, and places that are more marginal to our spatial imaginations. The initiative is a collaborative one, involving the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO), as well as contributions from many scholars across different institutions.
As the book has been a number of years in the making, we have had assistance from a range of agencies and individuals. The GCRO, the South African Research Chairs’ Initiative of the National Research Foundation and the School of Architecture and Planning provided financial and institutional support for the project. The substantive content comes, of course, from the considerable efforts and insights of the contributors, and we offer them our heartfelt thanks. We are also grateful to the anonymous reviewers who provided us with perceptive comments. Wits University Press provided professional guidance and the gentle reassurance we needed from time to time. Our sincere thanks go to the publishing team – Veronica Klipp, Roshan Cader, Mary Ralphs, Andrew Joseph and Peter Bosman. The forbearance of our colleagues in the GCRO and the School of Architecture and Planning, and of our friends and families, is deeply appreciated, thank you.
PLATE 1 Johannesburg within the Gauteng city-region.
Gauteng’s boundaries include the metropolitan municipalities of Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni and Tshwane, as well as the district municipalities of Sedibeng and West Rand.
Data source: MDB (2010). Cartography by Chris Wray

PLATE 2 Key places in the city of Johannesburg.
Many of the place names mentioned in this book are shown on this map.
Data source: GTI (2009); MDB (2010). Cartography by Chris Wray

PLATE 3 Population distribution across the Gauteng city-region.
Data derived from Census 2011 show that 13.4 million people (one in four South Africans) live within 100 km of Johannesburg’s CBD.
Data sources: MDB (2010); Stats SA (2011b). Cartography by Chris Wray

PLATE 4 Land use in 1956.
Source: Fair et al. (1957)
These land use maps show the polycentric structure of the Gauteng city-region, and that Johannesburg is located at the centre of two main axes of development: the north-south axis connecting Pretoria to the Vaal Triangle industrial complex, and the east-west axis defined by settlements and activities along the gold reef. Also evident here is how African, coloured and Indian residential areas were deliberately dislocated from the main urban cores.

PLATE 5 Land use in 1974.
Source: DPE (1974)

PLATE 6 Urban expansion in Gauteng, 1991–2009.
Data sources: Mubiwa (2014); Mubiwa and Annegarn (2013). Cartography by Brian Mubiwa

PLATE 7 Urban expansion in Johannesburg, 1991–2009.
Data sources: Mubiwa (2014); Mubiwa and Annegarn (2013). Cartography by Brian Mubiwa

PLATE 8 New formal residential development in central Gauteng per km 2 , 2001–2010.
Formal freehold housing units, mostly provided by government, have been built mainly on the fringes of the city while private townhouse and estate developments dominate the wealthier central areas.
Data sources: CSIR/ARC (2000); GTI (2013a,b). Cartography by Daniel Kibirige and Chris Wray

PLATE 9 Gated communities in central Gauteng, 2012.
Gated communities – sectional schemes, residential estates, commercial estates/business parks and boomed-off residential areas – make up 19 per cent of Johannesburg’s urban extent.
Data sources: AfriGIS (2012); GTI (2009); MDB (2010). Cartography by Chris Wray

PLATE 10 Urban growth per km 2 from 1991 to 2001 in relation to the 2002 urban edge.
In 2000, Gauteng adopted an urban-edge policy to contain outward sprawl. The delineation of the edge was highly contested and the policy was eventually rescinded in 2011 but it seems to have slowed urban sprawl in some areas.

PLATE 11 Urban growth per km 2 from 2001 to 2009 relative to both the 2002 (in grey) and 2010 (in blue) urban edges.
Data sources for both maps: GDED (2011a); Mubiwa (2014); M