Transportation , power, water, housing, information and communication technology are just some of the burning issues being addressed by the City of Johannesburg as it spearheads the Gauteng Provincial Government's macro and micro-economic growth strategies. The key emphasis is on service and delivery...
The Remaking of Inner City Johannesburg and the Right to the City: A Case Study of the Maboneng Precinct eastern side of the central business district (CBD), is rapidly transforming the inner city into a home for the city's elite and well-to-do youth. ... CE Vejby - Dissertations & ...
Built in 1989, the First National Bank Stadium, called Soccer City, is one of the most popular in the world. This football arena is located in Johannesburg. In 2009, it underwent significant reconstruction. In 2010 South Africa hosted the 2010 football...
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The eThekwini Municipality is South Africa's second-largest economy after Johannesburg, and is home to 3.5 million people. In this thriving city, data cost is a major factor affecting the proliferation of Internet access among the majority of residents. The eThekwini government has noticed this...
Cape Town quickly outgrew its original purpose, becoming the economic and cultural hub of the Cape Colony. Indeed, prior to the Witwatersrand Gold Rush and the development of Johannesburg, the current location of the country’s stock exchange, Cape Town was the largest and most prosperous city ...
Johannesburg, city, Gauteng province, South Africa, that is the country’s chief industrial and financial metropolis. One of the youngest of the world’s major cities, Johannesburg was founded in 1886, following the discovery of gold.
Since the founding of the People’s Republic... 0 Comment(s) Join our Conversation In It Together Lesley Lokko, Johannesburg “[A city where] everything comes together . . . subjectivity and objectivity, the abstract and the concrete, the real and the imagined, the knowable and the ...
We examine this question from the perspective of the Gauteng City-Region—the South African mega-metropolis anchored by Johannesburg. The Gauteng City-Region has made significant progress over the past two decades. GDP per capita is nearly one-quarter higher today than in 2000. Educational ...
Recent developments in the city centre reveal the growing influence of creative class arguments, drawing on the work of Richard Florida.8 Cities as disparate as Johannesburg, South Africa,9 Barcelona, Spain,10 and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK,11 have pursued creative class and creative city strategies...