Johannesburg. Shifting Borders and Building Bridges
Johannesburg. Shifting Borders and Building Bridges
- urbanNext, November 17, 2017.
- 443 words.
africanCities, Essay, Gauteng City-Region Observatory, Low Density, Politics and economics, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms
Africa, africanCities, Borders, Desert, Economics, Economy, Essay, Global Awareness, Housing, Housing market, Imminent Commons, Johannesburg, Mobility, Planetary urbanizations, Politics, Reflection on African Cities, Rethinking Urban Environments, South Africa, Territory, Urban growth, Urban Paradigms, Urban settlement, Urban sprawl
Borders are both material and unseen, constructed and imaginary, fixed and fluid. In recent years we have seen the continued relevance of international borders and how these affect the lives of people in different places. While political borders remain as pertinent as ever, this exhibition examines other kinds of “urban borders” in the context of the Gauteng City-Region(GCR).
2575-5374
Politics Inequality Exhibition South Africa
africanCities, Essay, Gauteng City-Region Observatory, Low Density, Politics and economics, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms
Africa, africanCities, Borders, Desert, Economics, Economy, Essay, Global Awareness, Housing, Housing market, Imminent Commons, Johannesburg, Mobility, Planetary urbanizations, Politics, Reflection on African Cities, Rethinking Urban Environments, South Africa, Territory, Urban growth, Urban Paradigms, Urban settlement, Urban sprawl
Borders are both material and unseen, constructed and imaginary, fixed and fluid. In recent years we have seen the continued relevance of international borders and how these affect the lives of people in different places. While political borders remain as pertinent as ever, this exhibition examines other kinds of “urban borders” in the context of the Gauteng City-Region(GCR).
2575-5374
Politics Inequality Exhibition South Africa