The Apartheid City and Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Apartheid City and Beyond write by David M. Smith. This book was released on 2003-09-02. The Apartheid City and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explains how apartheid changed South Africa's cities, how people responded to regain some control over urban life, and how the forces of urbanization held back under apartheid will affect the post-apartheid era.
Cape Town After Apartheid
Cape Town After Apartheid - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cape Town After Apartheid write by Tony Roshan Samara. This book was released on 2011. Cape Town After Apartheid available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reveals how liberal democracy and free-market economics reproduce the inequalities of apartheid in Cape Town, South Africa.
Taming the Disorderly City
Taming the Disorderly City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Taming the Disorderly City write by Martin J. Murray. This book was released on 2008. Taming the Disorderly City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In postapartheid Johannesburg, tensions of race and class manifest themselves starkly in struggles over 'rights to the city'. Martin J. Murray brings together urban theory and local knowledge to draw a picture of this city, where real estate agents and the very poor fight for control of space.
World Cities Beyond the West
World Cities Beyond the West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook World Cities Beyond the West write by Josef Gugler. This book was released on 2004-10-14. World Cities Beyond the West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study was the first systematically to cover those cities beyond the core that most clearly can be considered world cities: Bangkok, Cairo, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Mexico City, Moscow, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, and Singapore. Fourteen leading authorities from diverse backgrounds bring their expertise to bear on these cities across four continents and consider the major regional and global roles they play in economic, political, and cultural life. Conveying how these cities have followed various pathways to their present position, they offer multiple perspectives on the interplay of internal and external forces and demonstrate that any comprehensive discussion of world cities has to engage a multiplicity of perspectives. With an introduction by Josef Gugler and an afterword from Saskia Sassen, this substantial volume makes a major contribution to the world cities literature and provides an important impetus for further analysis.
Beyond the Networked City
Beyond the Networked City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Networked City write by Olivier Coutard. This book was released on 2015-12-14. Beyond the Networked City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cities around the world are undergoing profound changes. In this global era, we live in a world of rising knowledge economies, digital technologies, and awareness of environmental issues. The so-called "modern infrastructural ideal" of spatially and socially ubiquitous centrally-governed infrastructures providing exclusive, homogeneous services over extensive areas, has been the standard of reference for the provision of basic essential services, such as water and energy supply. This book argues that, after decades of undisputed domination, this ideal is being increasingly questioned and that the network ideology that supports it may be waning. In order to begin exploring the highly diverse, fluid and unstable landscapes emerging beyond the networked city, this book identifies dynamics through which a ‘break’ with previous configurations has been operated, and new brittle zones of socio-technical controversy through which urban infrastructure (and its wider meaning) are being negotiated and fought over. It uncovers, across a diverse set of urban contexts, new ways in which processes of urbanization and infrastructure production are being combined with crucial sociopolitical implications: through shifting political economies of infrastructure which rework resource distribution and value creation; through new infrastructural spaces and territorialities which rebundle socio-technical systems for particular interests and claims; and through changing offsets between individual and collective appropriation, experience and mobilization of infrastructure. With contributions from leading authorities in the field and drawing on theoretical advances and original empirical material, this book is a major contribution to an ongoing infrastructural turn in urban studies, and will be of interest to all those concerned by the diverse forms and contested outcomes of contemporary urban change across North and South.
