Why Won’t Downtown Johannesburg ‘Regenerate’? Reassessing Hillbrow as a Case Example

Winkler, Tanja

doi:10.1007/s12132-012-9178-5

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“…These tenancies were illegal according to the Apartheid Group Areas Act, resulting in higher rents for new arrivals and conflicts in the tenant landlord relations leading to rent strikes and a divestment of landlords from the area. Hillbrow and Yeoville were re-classified as a 'grey areas' in the group areas act of 1985 -after a landmark ruling had questioned forced removals from the area -banks and financial institutions redlined Hillbrow, and other parts of Johannesburg, effectively halting the ability to secure mortgages here (Morris 1994(Morris , 1999Murray 2011;Winkler 2013;Smithers 2013). In the years following the end of Apartheid, these inner-cities districts faced a continuous downward spiral with the emergence of vertical slums in the form of hijacked and squatted high rises.…”

Section: Slum Tours In Inner-city Johannesburgmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Mostly white and middle class residents had left these inner-city districts almost completely by the mid to late 1990s to settle in new suburban areas in the North of Johannesburg. In the perception of most South Africans to date Hillbrow and Yeoville, still stand as-no go-areas and as slums (Winkler 2013, Smithers 2013). …”

Section: Slum Tours In Inner-city Johannesburgmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Policy followed models of other post-industrial cities, in particular in the UK, with its particular focus on culture and creativity (Rogerson 2006;Winkler 2013). The Johannesburg master plan of the city authorities is to develop Johannesburg into a world class African city.…”

Section: Symbolic Issues With Perceptions Of Inner City Johannesburgmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Despite overall negative public perceptions, Winkler (2013) claims that Hillbrow remains a highly attractive urban area to many. The same can be said of Yeoville, where the building of backyard shacks points to housing shortages (Smithers 2013).…”

Section: Symbolic Issues With Perceptions Of Inner City Johannesburgmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The same can be said of Yeoville, where the building of backyard shacks points to housing shortages (Smithers 2013). In sociological terms it makes sense to see Hillbrow as an 'arrival city' (Saunders 2012) in the sense that many new migrants to Johannesburg, today mostly from other African countries locate here first (Winkler 2008;Winkler 2013). The informal housing and to date the relatively low rents in a convenient inner-city location enhance this function.…”

Section: Symbolic Issues With Perceptions Of Inner City Johannesburgmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Slum Tourism and Urban Regeneration: Touring Inner Johannesburg

Frenzel

2014

Urban Forum

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Much attention has been paid to township tourism in South Africa, a practice of tourism that emerged in Apartheid South Africa with different organised tours catering for governmental officials, faith-based groups and anti-apartheid activists. In democratic South Africa township tourism has developed into a mainstream tourism activity and operators now offer township tours, township stays and other tourist activities in townships across rural and urban South Africa. Township tourism has also been one central empirical pillar of the relatively new research area of slum tourism addressing tourism in slums and areas of relative urban poverty across the globe. Based on recent preliminary empirical research in Johannesburg this paper shows that slum tourism can now also be observed in areas other than townships in South Africa, including perceived 'no-go areas' in inner-city Johannesburg.The expansion of slum tourism beyond townships in Johannesburg points to an increasingly complex picture of urban poverty in South Africa. It also allows reflections on the role of slum tourism in poverty alleviation and urban regeneration, responding to and addressing 'territorial stigma' and other related symbolic aspects of poverty. Analysing the motivations and perspectives of tour operators of some of these new tours, the paper finds that the new slum tourism in South Africa is pursued in order to serve as an urban development and regeneration tool from below. It responds to an

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Section: Slum Tours In Inner-city Johannesburgmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Slum Tours In Inner-city Johannesburgmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Symbolic Issues With Perceptions Of Inner City Johannesburgmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Symbolic Issues With Perceptions Of Inner City Johannesburgmentioning

confidence: 99%