TY  - SER
AU  - Abrahams, Caryn  
AU  - Everatt, David 
TI  - City Profile: Johannesburg, South Africa
PY  - 2019///
PB  - Sage
KW  - Johannesburg
KW  -  urban governance,
KW  - spatial change
KW  -  metropolitan municipality
N2  - The city of Johannesburg offers insights into urban governance and the interesting interplay between
managing the pressures in a rapidly urbanizing context, with the political imperatives that are enduring challenges. The metropolitan municipality of Johannesburg (hereafter Johannesburg), as it is known
today, represents one of the most diverse cities in the African continent. That urbanization, however,
came up hard against the power of the past. Areas zoned by race had been carved into the landscape,
with natural and manufactured boundaries to keep formerly white areas ‘safe’ from those zoned for
other races. Highways, light industrial plant, rivers and streams, all combined to ensure the Johannesburg
landscape are spatially disfigured, and precisely because it is built into the landscape, the impact of
apartheid has proved remarkably durable. Urban growth is concentrated in Johannesburg’s townships
and much of it is class driven: the middle class (of all races) is increasingly being found in cluster and
complexes in the north Johannesburg, while poor and working-class African and coloured communities in particular are densifying in the south. The racial and spatial divisions of the city continue to pose
fundamental challenges in terms of governance, fiscal management and spatially driven service delivery
UR  - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0975425319859123
ER  -