Matthew Barac
Biographic Data
| ID | 1261311 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Barac |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Barac |
| SIGNATURE | BARAC M |
| AFFILIATIONS | London South Bank University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4562-3952 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Place resists
Emerging studies of African urbanity are reappraising city‐making practices and theories in ‘the global South’. Grounding alternative claims to ‘cityness’, the dynamics of informality hold a key to local cultures of transformation. In our age of global change this insight is crucial to grasping future urban demands. What debate about such cities calls for is an interpretive model able to orient circumstantial judgments in often discordant situati…
Transit Spaces
This work looks at aspects of urban development in post-apartheid South Africa. It concerns the tension between the symbolic town, represented by the “Rainbow Nation,” and the practical town: a topography conceived as a plan of action. Located in Khayelitsha township at Cape Town's metropolitan periphery, Victoria Mxenge's shack settlement provides an informal silhouette against which the journey from apartheid to the “Rainbow Nation” is staged. …
Connected Space
Transit Spaces
This work looks at aspects of urban development in post-apartheid South Africa. It concerns the tension between the symbolic town, represented by the “Rainbow Nation,” and the practical town: a topography conceived as a plan of action. Located in Khayelitsha township at Cape Town's metropolitan periphery, Victoria Mxenge's shack settlement provides an informal silhouette against which the journey from apartheid to the “Rainbow Nation” is staged. …
Place resists
Emerging studies of African urbanity are reappraising city‐making practices and theories in ‘the global South’. Grounding alternative claims to ‘cityness’, the dynamics of informality hold a key to local cultures of transformation. In our age of global change this insight is crucial to grasping future urban demands. What debate about such cities calls for is an interpretive model able to orient circumstantial judgments in often discordant situati…
Connected Space
Transit Spaces
This work looks at aspects of urban development in post-apartheid South Africa. It concerns the tension between the symbolic town, represented by the “Rainbow Nation,” and the practical town: a topography conceived as a plan of action. Located in Khayelitsha township at Cape Town's metropolitan periphery, Victoria Mxenge's shack settlement provides an informal silhouette against which the journey from apartheid to the “Rainbow Nation” is staged. …
Connected Space
Place resists
Emerging studies of African urbanity are reappraising city‐making practices and theories in ‘the global South’. Grounding alternative claims to ‘cityness’, the dynamics of informality hold a key to local cultures of transformation. In our age of global change this insight is crucial to grasping future urban demands. What debate about such cities calls for is an interpretive model able to orient circumstantial judgments in often discordant situati…
Sociology (3 works) · South African History and Culture (2 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (2 works) · Archaeology (1 work) · Cityscape (1 work) · Civil engineering (1 work) · Common ground (1 work) · Disadvantaged (1 work) · Environmental ethics (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work)