Cover; World City Syndrome: Neoliberalism and Inequality in Cape Town; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Figures; Acronyms; Preface and Acknowledgments; Maps of Cape Town and Its Regional Setting; Introduction: World City Syndrome; Part I; 1 Cape Town as World City; 2 Cape Town as Capitalist City; 3 Cape Town as Neoliberal City; Part II; 4 Respatializing Cape Town (I): Local Government Restructuring; 5 Respatializing Cape Town (II): Investments in the Built Environment; 6 Privatizing Cape Town; 7 Cost Recovering Cape Town; 8 Disciplining Cape Town; 9 (De)Africanizing Cape Town; Part III
10 Keep Left for Cape Town: Alternative Development StrategiesNotes; References; Index
Summary
The literature on 'world cities' has had an enormous influence on urban theory and planning alike. From Manila to London, academics and policy makers have attempted to understand, and to some extent strive for, world city status. This book is a study of Cape Town's standing in this network of urban centres, and an investigation of the conceptual appropriateness of this world city hypothesis. Drawing on more than a dozen years of fieldwork in Cape Town, McDonald provides an historical overview of institutional and structural reforms, examining fiscal imbalances, political marginalization, (d
