Writing the city into being : essays on Johannesburg, 1998-2008 / Lindsay Bremner ; [edited by Bronwyn Law-Viljoen].

Main entry:

Bremner, Lindsay.

Title & Author:

Writing the city into being : essays on Johannesburg, 1998-2008 / Lindsay Bremner ; [edited by Bronwyn Law-Viljoen].

Publication:

Description:

xii, 347 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Proposal : Writing the city into being -- 1. Architects write Johannesburg 1933-2007 -- 2. Listening to the city -- 3. Writing the city -- 4. Themes and theories -- 5. Imagining the city -- photographic essays -- Writing the city -- Smooth space -- Immaterial architecture -- Terror -- Essays : Johannesburg 1998-2008 -- 6. Six ways of being a stranger -- 7. Border/Skin -- 8. Remaking Johannesburg -- 9. Bounded spaces : Democratic anxieties in post-apartheid Johannesburg -- 10. Crime and the emerging landscape of post-apartheid Johannesburg -- 11. Memory, nation-building and the post-apartheid city : The Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg -- 12. Making life public in contemporary Johannesburg -- 13. Joburg fictions, city of books -- 14. Insurgent urbanisms, insurgent architectures -- 15. Invisible architecture.

ISBN:

9780986985003 (pbk.)
0986985007 (pbk.)

Subject:

City planning Political aspects South Africa Johannesburg.
Architecture and society South Africa Johannesburg History 20th century.
Architecture and society South Africa Johannesburg History 21st century.
Architecture et société Afrique du Sud Johannesburg Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture et société Afrique du Sud Johannesburg Histoire 21e siècle.
Architecture and society.
City planning Political aspects.
South Africa Johannesburg.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Law-Viljoen, Bronwyn.

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Location: Library main 273341
Call No.: BIB 206862
Status: Available

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