Building an 'African world-class' city : the politics of world city making in Johannesburg, South Africa

Many city managers across the world, including the current leadership of Johannesburg, have as a driving policy ambition improving their city’s ranking in the hierarchy of so-called ‘world cities’. This is despite the relatively well documented polarising tendencies of global and world cities’ (GaWC...

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Main Author: Lipietz, Barbara
Published: SOAS, University of London 2008
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.499103