Reversing Urban Inequality in Johannesburg

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures
About the authors
Map of the city of Johannesburg
Chart of annual income levels in the city of Johannesburg
Introduction: Jo’burg’s spatial dilemmas resonate globally
Part I: Government programmes’ unexpected consequences:
Attempts to ‘restitch’ Jo’burg’s urban fabric to make it more equal
	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
Part II: Effects of private capital: Ghettoization of the elite, gentrification in the inner city and evolving Chinese malls
	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
Part III:
Architectural and urban design attempts to reframe the past and remake heritage
	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
Part IV:
Apartheid’s unintended consequences and grey spatial legacy
	10.
Life behind the shop:A family history of work
and home in Jeppestown
	11.
Envelopes of the un-planned in Johannesburg’s South
Part V: The small big picture:
Global capitalism and local government
	12.
Conversation with Ms. Lisa Seftel, Executive Director of Transport, City of Johannesburg
Afterword:
The systemic production of inequality in Johannesburg
Index