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As the dynamo of South Africa’s economy, Johannesburg commands a central position in the nation’s imagination, and scholars throughout the world monitor the city as an exemplar of urbanity in the global South. This richly illustrated study offers detailed empirical analyses of changes in the city’s physical space, as well as a host of chapters on the character of specific neighbourhoods and the social identities being forged within them. Informing all of these is a consideration of underlying economic, social and political processes shaping the wider Gauteng region. A mix of respected academics, practising urban planners and experienced policymakers offer compelling overviews of the rapid and complex spatial developments that have taken place in Johannesburg since the end of apartheid, along with tantalising glimpses into life on the streets and behind the high walls of this diverse city. The book has three sections. Section A provides an overview of macro spatial trends and the policies that have infl uenced them. Section B explores the shaping of the city at district and suburban level, revealing the peculiarity of processes in different areas. This analysis elucidates thelarger trends, while identifying shifts that are not easily detected at the macro level. Section C is an assembly of chapters and short vignettes that focus on the interweaving of place and identity at a micro level.With empirical data supported by new data sets including the 2011 Census, the city’s Development Planning and Urban Management Department’s information system, and Gauteng City-Region Observatory’s substantial archive, the book is an essential reference for planning practitioners, urban geographers, sociologists, and social anthropologists, among others.

Urban & municipal planning --- Apartheid --- Gauteng --- Johannesburg --- Kliptown --- South Africa

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With 22% of the national population (11.2 million inhabitants), the Gauteng city-region is the largest and richest region in South Africa, contributing to one-third of national GDP. The area encompasses a series of connected cities, including Johannesburg and the national capital of Tshwane (formerly Pretoria), that function as a single, integrated region. Gauteng has been South Africa’s growth engine: for every additional 1% growth in population in the province, 1.6% is added to its contribution to national growth, implying higher productivity than in other parts of the country. Nevertheless, the city-region’s growth potential is constrained by deep socio-economic challenges, including high unemployment (26.9%) and low productivity growth. Its rapid demographic and economic development has also reinforced the spatial segregation instituted under apartheid. Against the backdrop of South Africa’s achievements since the fall of apartheid, this Review evaluates measures to position economic development policy and to confront economic inequality in Gauteng. The issues of adequate housing as a catalyst of economic development and a vehicle for socioeconomic integration, transport mobility and public service delivery are examined in detail. The Review also assesses the economic growth potential of the manufacturing and green sectors, as well as governance issues, focussing on the potential of intergovernmental collaboration in advancing a cross-cutting regional approach for Gauteng.  

Regional planning --- Gauteng (South Africa) --- Economic conditions. --- Economic policy. --- Social conditions. --- Regional development --- State planning --- Government policy --- Human settlements --- Land use --- Planning --- City planning --- Landscape protection --- Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging (South Africa)

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"Never have seven people been so hunted. By assassins. By journalists, lawyers and activists in search of the truth and TRC investigators wanting justice for the victims' families.In 1986, seven young men were shot and killed by police in Gugulethu in Cape Town. The nation was told they were a 'terrorist' MK cell, which was plotting an attack on a police unit. An inquest followed, then a dramatic trial in 1987 and another inquest in 1989. Finally, the fact that Eugene de Kock's Vlakplaas unit plotted and drove the operation was revealed at the Truth and Reconciliation ten years after the murders, but Vlakplaas's real agenda remained shrouded in mystery.In Hunting the Seven, Beverley Roos-Muller tells the story of the Gugulethu Seven and the hunt for the truth of their deaths. It took a decade and two dogged journalists, their canny lawyers, anti-apartheid activists and TRC investigators to get to the bottom of the extrajudicial killings. Sifting through the evidence and through original interviews with those involved, Roos-Muller reveals that it was Vlakplaas's only operation in the Western Cape and was an elaborate, deadly scheme designed to keep the money rolling into the death squad's slush fund" --

Investigative reporting --- Atrocities --- Political violence --- Journalisme d'enquête --- Atrocités --- Violence politique --- Cape Town (South Africa) --- South Africa --- Guguletu (Cape Town, South Africa) --- Vlakplaas (Gauteng, South Africa : Farm) --- Afrique du Sud --- Politics and government --- Politics and government --- History. --- Politique et gouvernement

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This book is the first comprehensive investigation of the architecture of the apartheid state in the period of rapid economic growth and political repression from 1957 to 1966 when buildings took on an ideological role that was never remote from the increasingly dominant administrative, legislative and policing mechanisms of the regime. It considers how this process reflected the usurpation of a regional modernism and looks to contribute to wider discourses on international postwar modernism in architecture.Buildings in Pretoria that came to embody ambitions of the apartheid state for industrialisation and progress serve as case studies. These were widely acclaimed projects that embodied for apartheid officials the pursuit of modernisation but carried latent apprehensions of Afrikaners about their growing economic prospects and cultural estrangement in Africa. It is a less known and marginal story due to the dearth of material and documents buried in archives and untranslated documents. Many of the documents, drawings and photographs in the book are unpublished and include classified material and photographs from the National Nuclear Research Centre, negatives of 1960s from Pretoria News and documents and pamphlets from Afrikaner Broederbond archives.State architecture became the most iconic public manifestation of an evolving expression of white cultural identity as a new generation of architects in Pretoria took up the challenge of finding form to their prospects and beliefs. It was an opportunistic faith in Afrikaners who urgently needed to entrench their vulnerable and contested position on the African continent. The shift from provincial town to apartheid capital was swift and relentless. Little was left to stand in the way of the ambitions and aim of the state as people were uprooted and forcibly relocated, structures torn down and block upon block of administration towers and slabs erected across Pretoria.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of architectural history as well as those with an interest in postcolonial studies, political science and social anthropology.

Apartheid and architecture --- Architecture and state --- Modern movement (Architecture) --- Pretoria (South Africa) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- National movements --- Architecture --- architecture [discipline] --- Modern Movement --- apartheid --- Pretoria --- Mouvement moderne (Architecture) --- Politique gouvernementale --- Pretoria (Afrique du Sud) --- Constructions --- Pretorii︠a︡ (South Africa) --- Tshwane (South Africa) --- Jacaranda City (South Africa) --- Pretoria (Gauteng, South Africa) --- Modernism (Architecture) --- Modernist architecture --- Architecture, Modern --- International style (Architecture) --- Apartheid architecture --- Architecture and apartheid --- State and architecture --- 72.036(6) --- 72.036 --- 72.036 Moderne bouwkunst. Architectuur van de 20e eeuw --- Moderne bouwkunst. Architectuur van de 20e eeuw

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This Special Issue is dedicated to sustainable mobility and transport, with a special focus on technological advancements. Global transport systems are significant sources of air, land, and water emissions. A key motivator for this Special Issue was the diversity and complexity of mitigating transport emissions and industry adaptions towards increasingly stricter regulation. Originally, the Special Issue called for papers devoted to all forms of mobility and transports. The papers published in this Special Issue cover a wide range of topics, aiming to increase understanding of the impacts and effects of mobility and transport in working towards sustainability, where most studies place technological innovations at the heart of the matter. The goal of the Special Issue is to present research that focuses, on the one hand, on the challenges and obstacles on a system-level decision making of clean mobility, and on the other, on indirect effects caused by these changes.

Film, TV & radio --- shared mobility --- piezoelectric --- energy harvesting --- two-wheelers --- smart city --- business models --- regulation --- logistics --- supply chains --- Finland --- Russia --- high-speed railway --- income gap --- club convergence --- nonlinear time-varying factor model --- research review --- trucks --- emission --- regulations --- modal choice --- sustainable mobility --- Mallorca mobility --- logistic regression --- transport planning --- transport --- sustainability --- mobility --- simulation --- life cycle analysis --- passenger car --- environmental impact --- hybrid electric vehicle --- battery electric vehicle --- electric vehicle policy --- electric vehicle incentives --- charging infrastructure --- green transport strategy --- Gauteng province --- mobile-energy-as-a-service (MEaaS) --- mobile energy --- urban electromobility --- electric vehicle --- renewable energy resource --- bidirectional electric vehicle charging --- natural language processing (NLP) --- topic modelling --- BERT --- transportation --- newspaper --- magazine --- academic research --- journalism --- deep learning --- smart cities