Focus 69 - Future of our Cities
Focus 69 - Future of our Cities
In their extraordinary tribute to the bourgeoisie in the Communist Manifesto – and whatever else that tract may be, it is also a tribute to the bourgeoisie – Marx and Engels pointed out that the bourgeoisie had rescued a “considerable amount of the population from the idiocy of their rural life”.1 For Marx and Engels the city became the locus of all that was modern and progressive, but also alienating. These twin themes of progress and alienation still characterize our thinking on cities. While those who have the means may opt – like Marie Antoinette in the 18th century – to have quasi rural retreats in such idyllic places as Greyton, McGregor, Polokwane or Parys, the majority of South Africans are confined to urban settings; and it is these urban settings that are the subject of this edition of Focus.
Focus 69 - Future of our Cities
Editorial - Francis Antonie
A Narrative: Joburg 2038 - Charles Simkins
Truth to Power by Dennis Hurley - Reviewed by Bobby Godsell
A Church for the Future: South Africa as the Crucible for Anglicanism in a New Century by Harold T Lewis - Reviewed by Gillian Godsell
Apartheid: An Illustrated History by Michael Morris - Reviewed by Wim Louw
The Great Degeneration – how institutions decay and economies die by Professor Niall Ferguson - Reviewed by Stuart Jones
The Great Degeneration – how institutions decay and economies die By Professor Niall Ferguson - Reviewed by Robert Vivian
Quality of Life in the Gauteng City-Region: a steady ship on a global sea of change - David Everatt
A new dynamic – urban regeneration in the Joburg CBD - Lael Bethlehem
Evolving Strategies in the Johannesburg CBD - Jonathan Olitzki and John Luiz
Assessing the South African City as a Cultural Landscape - Gwen Theron
Design in the Economic System - Tessa Graaff
“Unity in Diversity”. The Built Environment - Fanuel Motsepe
Encounters at the Edge - David Lurie
Some Reflections on Identity and Cities - Ashleigh Fraser