Life in the City

Johannesburg is grappling with a daunting set of policy challenges such as migrancy, poverty, unemployment, uneven levels of economic growth, inequity, violence, informal settlements and service delivery. The resulting health and social problems that these conditions produce and reproduce make Johannesburg an ideal ‘laboratory’ for a project combining different disciplines and methodological approaches to find solutions to these complex challenges. The focus and purpose of the Life in the City project was to develop a deeper understanding of inequality, exclusion and marginalisation.

WSG coordinated this project.