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    Sex, Sleaze, Smut, Humanity and the City

    Thinking about the interaction between city space and sexual liberty, identity and citizenship.

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    Kerk Street | A Model Urban Environment?

    Our third post on Kerk Street in our Joburg Streets series looks at how the street shines as a pedestrianised avenue, but also how it can be improved....

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    GCRO – Teacher Salaries in Joburg

    The latest vignette from the Gauteng City Region Observatory looks at average annual teacher salaries in Joburg in comparison to other cities.

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    Awash with Difference

    Our thoughts on preserving heritage, tolerating difference and drying laundry…

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    Informal Trading & Joburg (4)

    In our fourth and final post on Joburg’s informal trading by-laws, we look at how the by-laws are essentially anti-competitive in nature.

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Sex, Sleaze, Smut, Humanity and the City

May 17, 2013 Marius Pieterse Identity, Public Space, Understand Joburg No comments

Thinking about the interaction between city space and sexual liberty, identity and citizenship.

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Joburg Streets

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Kerk Street | A Model Urban Environment?

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Our third post on Kerk Street in our Joburg Streets series looks at how the street shines as a pedestrianised avenue, but also how it can be improved....

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    Kerk Street | The Kerk Street Mosque

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    Kerk street | An Introduction

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    Derrick Avenue | What Makes it Tick?

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    Derrick Avenue | An Introduction

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    Reading the Street

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    Introducing (Urban) Joburg Streets (2)

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    Introducing (Urban) Joburg Streets (1)

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Joburg Photography

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Portraits of a [Gauteng] City-Region

April 16, 2013 no comments

A photo exhibition of a city region that is predicted to be the twelfth largest in the world by 2015.

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    Chew on this, Joburg

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    Aubrey Ndiweni: Vintage Colour Frenzy

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    Cinderella’s dilemma: Mint street, Fordsburg...

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    Joburg’s Sunsets

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    Constitutional Court of South Africa

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    The Lion in (Joburg) Winter

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    Top of Africa – Looking North

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    Top of Africa – Looking West

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    Walk the (Railway) Line in Joburg

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Mobility in Joburg

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Bike Sharing in Joburg

April 10, 2013 no comments

Is a bike sharing scheme necessary in Johannesburg? We give 10 reasons why it is.

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    Rea Vaya: How Does It Measure Up?

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    On petrol hikes, public transport and change

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    For whom the bells e-toll…

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    Tuk-Tuks: Development in Joburg Public Transp...

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    Walking in Joburg

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    Let’s walk

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    OCCUPY Public Transport!!!

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    Gautrain Facebook Site Video

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    Midrand Streets – a Lament

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    Not taking the bus from Braamies – A Lament:...

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    The Gautrain Gum Police

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    The Emirates Air-Line

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Public Space

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Sex, Sleaze, Smut, Humanity and the City

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Thinking about the interaction between city space and sexual liberty, identity and citizenship.

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    George Hay Park, Parkview

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    How Green was my Jozi

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    ‘Tis the Season to be Swimming

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    Oppenheimer Park

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    Flash Mob on the Copenhagen Metro

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The Right to the City

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Informal Trading & Joburg (4)

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In our fourth and final post on Joburg’s informal trading by-laws, we look at how the by-laws are essentially anti-competitive in nature.

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    Informal Trading & Joburg (3)

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    Informal Trading & Joburg (2)

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    Informal Trading & Joburg (1)

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    Lumen – a Bright Blight on the City?

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    Jane Jacobs on Diversity

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    Dlala Nje: Community-Driven Upliftment

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    The Informal City Dialogues

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    Fishman on the Rise and Fall of Suburbia

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    Safety & the City in Joburg

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    On exclusion, isolation and imprisonment

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