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With respect to the contemporary built environment, notions of space and place may be constructed, framed and defined by the seemingly transitory varieties of movement as much as by more normative, physical locales of residence, work and recreation that generally receive the greatest anthropological attention. This paper investigates the primacy of private vehicles in the context of suburban South African life by placing it against the backdrop of apartheid era planning policies as well as current, post-apartheid domestic investment strategies. It considers the cultural significance of various modes of transportation with respect to the ways in which urban development in South Africa-and particularly Johannesburg-is currently being contested through the critical dimensions of physical design, access and mobility that help to underpin contemporary modes of material production and consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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