Von Joburg nach Gauteng: Transformation der City of Gold zur Global City Region?

Haferburg Christoph and Oßenbrügge Jürgen ()
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Haferburg Christoph: Institut für Geographie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nürnberg, Wetterkreuz 15, 91058 Erlangen, Germany; derzeit: Institut für Geographische Wissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin, Malteserstrasse 74–100, 12249 Berlin, Germany
Oßenbrügge Jürgen: Institut für Geographie/CEN, Universität Hamburg, Bundesstraße 55, 20146 Hamburg, Germany

ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography, 2017, vol. 61, issue 2, 96-114

Abstract: Conventional regionalisations and delimitations of cities and urban societies are increasingly questioned, empirically as well as theoretically. Based on a review of the related debate this paper identifies two analytical dimensions required in order to understand the current dynamics of urban agglomerations in a global perspective: their embedding in the worldwide circulation of capital and resources, and the complimentary nexus of local economic, political and social trajectories. Furthermore the interplay between ‘city’ and ‘region’ is interpreted as an effect of strategies of (re-) territorialisaion, which do not only address political and economic concerns, but aspects of infrastructure and location of resources as well. Conceptually, the World and Global City debate and the Global Value Chain argument already offer a range of research questions on global cities in Africa. However, without acknowledging the local path-dependencies any understanding of the profile which characterizes specific urban formations) will remain incomplete. Therefore, and based on Gauteng as a reference, we propose a synthesis of the two analytical dimensions, arguing that this two-pronged reflection enables to unravel the mutual dependency between regional/urban structures and the material and financial flows on the global scale.

Keywords: Gauteng; global city region; Johannesburg; regional development; reterritorialisation; urban and regional governance; Gauteng; Global-City-Region; Johannesburg; Stadtentwicklung; Urban Governance; Gauteng; global city region; Johannesburg; regional development; reterritorialisation; urban and regional governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1515/zfw-2016-0050

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