Howe, L.B.;
(2026)
Extra/ordinary Johannesburg: Centrality, periphery, and the spaces between.
[Book].
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
Johannesburg, South Africa, is often associated with inequality and referred to as the quintessential 'apartheid city'. Yet this book argues that Johannesburg, part of the highly urbanized Gauteng City-Region, is actually an 'ordinary' space where spatial changes both marginalize and create opportunities for people going about their lives. Relying on more than a decade of empirical research, the book also interrogates the concept of 'spatial dialectics' proposed by Henri Lefebvre. Through deep insight into the practices and experiences of everyday life, Lindsay Blair Howe shows how cities and regions like greater Johannesburg are more than just a sum of their parts. Individuals, and the collectives they forge, influence processes of urbanization and capital accumulation. Extra/ordinary Johannesburg reveals how Lefebvre’s assertions about the production of space remain relevant today, but also where they reach their limits, and how theories on the production of space can be further developed by a stronger understanding of this African urban region. What we can learn from how people are able to navigate the urban fabric of centralities, peripheries, and the spaces between matter greatly in productively reimagining ways to encounter urban Africa.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Extra/ordinary Johannesburg: Centrality, periphery, and the spaces between |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800089785 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800089785 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800089785 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © Author, 2025 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book's Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. Every effort has been made to identify and contact copyright holders and any omission or error will be corrected if notification is made to the publisher. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book's Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Howe, L. B. 2025. Extra/ordinary Johannesburg: Centrality, periphery, and the spaces between. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800089785 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | Johannesburg, Gauteng City-Region, South Africa, Henri Lefebvre, Spatial |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10220264 |
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