List of Maps List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction. Spatial Politics in the Precarious City Part I. Making Space: City Building and the Production of the Built Environment 1. The Restless Urban Landscape: The Evolving Spatial Geography of Johannesburg 2. The Collapse of High-Modernist City Building Part II. Unraveling Space: Centrifugal Urbanism and the Convulsive City 3. Hollowing out the Center: Johannesburg Turned Inside Out 4. Worlds Apart: The Johannesburg Inner City and the Making of the Outcast Ghetto 5. The Splintering Metropolis: Laissez-faire Urbanism and Unfettered Suburban Sprawl Part III. Fortifying Space: Siege Architecture and Anxious Urbanism 6. Defensive Urbanism after Apartheid: Spatial Partitioning and the New Fortification Aesthetic 7. Entrepreneurial Urbanism and the Private City 8. Reconciling Arcadia and Utopia: Gated Residential Estates at the City's Edge Epilogue: Putting Johannesburg in Its Place: The Ordinary City Notes Appendix Bibliography Index