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On petrol hikes, public transport and change
So, up the petrol price goes, by a gazillion cents per drop, and waves of dejection wash through every Joburg corner. On Facebook, our friends are cooking up all kinds of formidable financial survival...
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Rea Vaya’s Phase 1A has been awarded a Silver designation by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy. We look at what this means. The Rea Vaya Phase 1A has been awarded a Silver...
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Kerk street | An Introduction
In this post, we introduce the second in our series of featured Joburg streets – Kerk street. The second street to be highlighted in our Joburg streets series, Kerk street used to be just another...
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Kerk Street | The Kerk Street Mosque
This post looks at the Kerk street mosque – a distinct Joburg landmark and beacon of diversity Part of what makes city streets exciting is the extent of human difference they showcase. By exposing us...
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Awash with Difference
Our thoughts on preserving heritage, tolerating difference and drying laundry… An interesting online exchange between members of Joburg’s heritage community and members of its resident community caught...
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Sex, Sleaze, Smut, Humanity and the City
Thinking about the interaction between city space and sexual liberty, identity and citizenship. Street prostitution, porn theaters, sex clubs, public cruising, swingers’ parties, sex shops, strip bars...
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Joburg: The New York of Africa: Or Not
How right or wrong was Joburg’s mayor in recently stating that Joburg could be the New York of Africa? Recent press coverage of Joburg mayor Parks Tau’s state of the city address, which announced,...
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Drawing In the Periphery?
In this post, we briefly reflect on the notion of the urban periphery in relation to the right to the city and consider how public transport can redefine what it means to be located there. On our...
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How Green can our City Be?
Fantasizing about greening Joburg in relation to recent initiatives in New York City. In order to remain sustainable, cities must go green. This applies not only to, for example, energy use,...
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Regeneration, Gentrification and Middle-Class Capture
In this post, we respond to recent academic criticism of gentrification, regeneration and Urban Joburg’s stance in this regard, and reiterate the need to appreciate the complexity of the multiple...
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Slutting around the Suburbs
Some thoughts about Slutwalk Johannesburg, which took place this recent weekend This recent weekend saw about 100 Joburgers take to the leafy streets of Parkview and Rosebank for the 3rd annual Joburg...
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On illegality, Lawlessness and Illegitimacy
Reflecting on the implications of the City’s conduct in recent days We are a bruised city. More than a week into operation “Clean Sweep”, our pavements have been “cleared” of informal traders and...
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A Walk Down Queen Street
In the latest post in our “Joburg streets” series, we take a walk down the rather schizophrenic high street on one of Joburg’s oldest suburbs Several of Joburg’s more established suburbs boast a ‘high...
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Year-end Reflections
Reflecting on Joburg’s tumultuous close to 2013 Once again it is upon us, the end of another year. Our city knows this, and behaves as it usually does: It empties out, becomes sleepy and present us...
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Equalizing the Cost of Distance
We welcome the soon-to-be-implemented reduction in Rea Vaya fares for commuters travelling more than 25 km. We were pleased to note that, as from this coming weekend, Rea Vaya fares will be reduced...
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Conflicting Thoughts: Joburg & Contestation
Thinking about the interdependence of competing visions for Joburg We were recently privileged to be in London for a few days, to attend a UN Habitat-sponsored think tank on urban law. On the day...
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Greening Democracy
The next post in our Democratic Joburg @ 20 series, looking at democracy in Joburg’s green leisure spaces. Cities and towns, says Iris Marion Young, are places of difference, where strangers who have...
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Democracy, Diversity and Community
In this post, the third in our “Democratic Joburg @ 20″ series, we take a closer look at the fostering of democracy and difference in and through Joburg’s many cultural communities. Diversity fosters...
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