Township economy: people, spaces, and practices

Abstract

This attractive and readable is the of several years of detailed on-site ethnographic and statistical research by the three authors and a dedicated team of student and community researchers. The study combines not only quantitative and qualitative data in a mutually illuminating way but features excellent documentary photographs, drawings, maps, charts and numerical surveys. Altogether the authors conducted on-site studies of ten urban black residential communities of varying formality, comprising five in the Cape Town area, two on the eastern periphery of Johannesburg, one in one in (Free State) and, for an illuminating contrast, one in Windhoek, Namibia.