Vernacular Regeneration: Low-Income Housing, Private Policing and Urban Transformation in Inner-City Johannesburg

by Aidan Mosselson

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Urban regeneration is currently taking place in inner-city Johannesburg. This book presents an alternative, multi-layered account for reading the process of urban change and renewal.

The provision of social and affordable housing and the spread of private security are explored through the lenses of neoliberal urbanism, gentrification, the privatisation of public space and revanchist policing. This book interrogates these concepts and...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0367586355

ISBN13:9780367586355

Release Date:June 2020

Publisher:Routledge

Length:178 Pages

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