Changing Space, Changing City

Peter Ahmad is the senior manager for metropolitan planning in the City of Cape Town, South Africa.Graeme Gotz is the director of research at the Gauteng City-Region Observatory in JohannesburgAlison Todes is a professor of urban and regional planning in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.Chris Wray was a senior systems analyst and manager at the Gauteng City-Region Observatory in JohannesburgPeter Ahmad is the senior manager for metropolitan planning in the City of Cape Town, South Africa.

• CartographySection A: The Macro TrendsChapter 1 Materialities, subjectivities and spatial transformation in Johannesburg - Philip Harrison, Graeme Gotz, Alison Todes and Chris WrayChapter 2 The ‘thin oil of urbanisation’? Spatial change in Johannesburg and the Gauteng city-region - Graeme Gotz, Chris Wray and Brian MubiwaChapter 4 The impact of policy and strategic spatial planning - Alison TodesChapter 9 Public housing in Johannesburg - Sarah CharltonSection B: Area based TransformationsChapter 14 The wrong side of the mining belt?  Spatial transformations and identities in Johannesburg’s southern suburbs - Philip Harrison and Tanya ZackChapter 16 Kliptown: Resilience and despair in the face of a hundred years of planning - Hilton Judin, Naomi Roux and Tanya ZackSection C: Spatial IdentitiesChapter 23 Footprints of Islam in Johannesburg - Yasmeen Dinath, Yusuf Patel and Rashid SeedatChapter 26 The Central Methodist Church - Christa KuljianChapter 29 Phantoms of the past, spectres of the present: Chinese space in Johannesburg - Philip Harrison, Khangelani Moyo and Yan YangChapter 30 The notice - Caroline Wanjiku KihatoChapter 32 Waste pickers/informal recyclers - Sarah CharltonContributorsPhotographic creditsAcronymsList of platesList of figuresList of tables