{"product_id":"city-of-extremes-9780822347682","title":"City of Extremes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA powerful critique of urban development in greater Johannesburg since the end of apartheid in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this meticulously researched account of Johannesburg’s socio-spatial history, Martin J. Murray gets beneath the surface of the city’s chaotic present to discover the inertia of long-term deployments. He finds that ingrained habits of urban planning and real estate entrepreneurship have always been mobilized in the city as twin mechanisms of change and renewal across moments of territorial mutation. This exposes post-apartheid transformation as a rearticulation of old orders and habits and makes an important contribution to revising the idea of a decisive historical rupture at the end of apartheid.”—\u003cb\u003eLindsay Bremner\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor of Architecture, Tyler School of Art, Temple University\u003cbr\u003e“Martin J. Murray navigates the slippery interfaces where mega-development, social progress, dystopian dread, racial enclaving, and mobilities of all kinds intersect, revealing both the alarming disposition of Africa’s most heterogeneous city and a rough-hewn humanity despite the odds. At each step, Murray is precise and impassioned in this no-holds-barred analysis of the lengths to which politicians, business people, planners, entrepreneurs, and developers will go to hold a city down.”—\u003cb\u003eAbdouMaliq Simone\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eFor the City Yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a book that should be read with attentiveness. It traces the lines of a city in which profound daily violence and suffering coexist with theatrical excess. It shows in convincing breadth that although the living conditions of suburban enclaves and those who dwell in abandoned buildings of the inner city may be ‘worlds apart,’ they are also closely connected to one another, and part of the same historical and economic processes.” -- Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon * Mail \u0026amp; Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e“The political, economic, and social tensions that have accompanied the city’s everchanging urban landscape are on display in this well-researched and penetrating work. . . . \u003ci\u003eCity of Extremes\u003c\/i\u003e is a significant and helpful resource for the study of cities in an era of globalization and urbanization.” -- Travis Vaughn * International Bulletin of Missionary Research *\u003cbr\u003e “[A]n excellent addition to the literature on Johannesburg, and a must-read book for all serious scholars with an interest in the City of Gold.” -- Keith Beavon * Comparativ *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Maps vii\u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations ix\u003cbr\u003e Preface xi\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xxvii\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations xxxi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Spatial Politics in the Precarious City 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I 23\u003cbr\u003e Making Space: City Building and the Production of the Built Enivronment \u003cbr\u003e 1. The Restless Urban Landscape: The Evolving Spatial Geography of Johannesburg 29\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Flawed Promise of the High-Modernist City: City Building at the Apex of Apartheid Rule 59\u003cbr\u003e Part II 83\u003cbr\u003e Unraveling Space: Centrifugal Urbanism and the Convulsive City \u003cbr\u003e 3. Hollowing out the Center: Johannesburg Turned Inside Out 87\u003cbr\u003e 4. Worlds Apart: The Johannesburg Inner City and the Making of the Outcast Ghetto 137\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Splintering Metropolis: Laissez-faire Urbanism and Unfettered Suburban Sprawl 173\u003cbr\u003e Part III 205\u003cbr\u003e Fortifying Space: Siege Architecture and Anxious Urbanism \u003cbr\u003e 6. Defensive Urbanism after Apartheid: Spatial Partitioning and the New Fortification Aesthetic 213\u003cbr\u003e 7. Entrepreneurial Urbanism and the Private City 245\u003cbr\u003e 8. Reconciling Arcadia and Utopia: Gated Residential Estates at the Metropolitan Edge 283\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Putting Johannesburg in Its Place: The Ordinary City 321\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 333\u003cbr\u003e Notes 337\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 423\u003cbr\u003e Index 463","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406061052247,"sku":"9780822347682","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822347682.jpg?v=1730494396","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/city-of-extremes-9780822347682","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}