Urban Decay
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You don’t need a summit to clean a city; you need consistency
The people of Johannesburg have cried many tears over the past decade and become accustomed to temporary service delivery ‘solutions’
Joburg Crisis Alliance questions ‘quick wins’ focus of presidential working group
Civil society says officials should break the cycle of grand promises and weak follow-through if Johannesburg is to be rebuilt into a world-class city
In the Shadow of the Gallery: Art, power and the fight for Johannesburg’s soul
Johannesburg Art Gallery’s decay reveals deeper cracks in South Africa’s cultural and political institutions
Spatial inequality affects everybody
My father had to fake his address to get me into a school. Now suburban decay has made me find another school for my children
Tales from high-rise dreamland
Last year photographer Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse began researching Johannesburg’s Ponte and its remaining residents to try to understand