ABSTRACT In post-apartheid inner-Johannesburg, the built environment reflects a city no longer wrenched apart by race, but by socio-economic stratification. Even as the city is refurbished for global appeal through gentrification, the rich-poor tussle among black urban dwellers motivates peculiar spatial practices which, while illustrating embedded urban pressures, produce new urban rationalities. Among these practices is hijacking of white-owned buildings in Hillbrow, a practice that impacts theorization of the ways in which black urban dwellers have customized Johannesburg post-1994. Through close reading of Ralph Ziman’s Gangster’s Paradise: Jerusalema, this article theorizes building hijacking as a curious case of sprouting city-making practices. Terming this aggressive do-it-yourself approach to urbanism as errancy, the article argues that such customization of the city usefully illustrates not only the annexation of post-apartheid Johannesburg, but the peculiarity of changing perceptions of freedom among black urban residents..

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定制种族隔离后的约翰内斯堡：拉尔夫·齐曼（Ralph Ziman）的耶路撒冷（Jerusalem）的种族歧视

摘要在种族隔离之后的约翰内斯堡，建筑环境反映出一个城市不再因种族而分裂，而是由于社会经济分层而陷入困境。即使通过绅士化对这座城市进行了翻新，使其具有全球吸引力，但黑人城市居民之间的贫富纠缠却激发了特殊的空间实践，这些实践虽然说明了内在的城市压力，但却产生了新的城市理性。在这些做法中，有一种是在Hillbrow劫持白人拥有的建筑物，这种做法影响了1994年后黑人城市居民定制约翰内斯堡的方式的理论化。通过仔细阅读拉尔夫·齐曼（Ralph Ziman）的《黑帮的天堂：耶路撒冷》，本文将建筑劫持理论化，作为新兴的城市建设实践的一个奇怪案例。将这种积极进取的都市主义自助方法称为偶然性，