Emergence South African Metropolis Cities Identities Twentieth Ce… 9781107002937

Emergence South African Metropolis Cities Identities Twentieth Ce… 9781107002937

The Emergence of the South African MetropolisCities and Identities in the Twentieth Century\nAuthor(s): Vivian Bickford-Smith\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107002937, 978-1107002937\nSynopsis\nFocusing on South Africa's three main cities - Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Durban - this book explores South African urban history from the late nineteenth century onwards. In particular, it examines the metropolitan perceptions and experiences of both black and white South Africans, as well as those of visitors, especially visitors from Britain and North America. Drawing on a rich array of city histories, travel writing, novels, films, newspapers, radio and television programs, and oral histories, Vivian Bickford-Smith focuses on the consequences of the depictions of the South African metropolis and the 'slums' they contained, and especially on how senses of urban belonging and geography helped creat.

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