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Author:   Melissa Tandiwe Myambo
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367665074

ISBN 10:   0367665077
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   30 September 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction: Joburg’s spatial dilemmas resonate globally 1. The Micro-Politics of State-led Spatial Transformation: The suburban middle class in a Municipal Tribunal 2. There's Many a Slip 'twixt the Cup and the Lip: Questioning spatial transformation through Johannesburg’s Corridors of Freedom 3. Deconstructing and Decolonising Spatiality: Voluntary and affordable housing for a transforming Johannesburg 4. Affinities of Fear: Producing ‘safe’ spaces in a suburb North of Joburg 5. ‘The Darker Side of Modernity’ in an Illuminated Precinct in downtown Johannesburg 6. Red Velvet Cheesecake in Maboneng, Pap and Steak in Jeppestown: Displacement and Global Hipsterification in Downtown Jozi 7. The Many Lives of a Chinese mall in Johannesburg 8. Apartheid Spatial Plan: Heritagisation and Museumification of the Past at Vilakazi Street in Soweto 9. Spatial Transformation: Re-Presencing the lost narratives in Johannesburg’s heritage buildings 10. Life behind the shop: A family history of work and home in Jeppestown 11. Envelopes of the un-planned in Johannesburg’s South

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Melissa Tandiwe Myambo is a Research Associate at the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa and an Honorary Research Fellow at Wits City Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She holds a PhD from New York University and was a 2017 Writing Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies.

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