新兴的南非城市

THE EMERGING SOUTH AFRICAN CITY

本文探究了主导南非后种族隔离时期城市发展的影响力量,以及由此产生的一些建筑,文章特别关注于约翰内斯堡,这个规模最大,人口最多(3500万人口)的南非城市,在这个城市里这些影响力更为强大。文章最根本的论点是,关于这些塑造南非当代城市的动态影响力的复杂性,是无法仅由单一方式去阐明或理解的,人们必须借助多重复合的解读方式才能认知它。

This essay explores the driving forces shaping the post apartheld city in South Africa, and some of its resulting architectures, It refers particularly to Johannesburg, the largest and most populous city in the country （3.5 million）, where these forces are most intense. Its central argument Is that there is no singular way to explain or to understand the complexity of the urban dynamlos moulding the contemporary city, but that one has to invoke multiple readings of it to make sense of it.