Bleakness and Light: Inner City Transition in Hilbrow, Johannesburg

Softcover. English. Witwatersrand University Press. 1999. ISBN: 1868143333. 411pp with black & white photographs. Good condition in slightly worn covers. Drawing on an extensive household survey and more than 150 in-depth interviews, Morris illustrates that for most of the residents, many of whom were lower middle class, Hillbrow did not represent, as many perceived it, an insalubrious locality rife with crime. They saw it as a neighbourhood that allowed for a significantly better quality of life. Book No: 2001950