Rare view of the city from Brixton Tower, long out of bounds to the general public. The red bars are the railings around an open platform
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• Fish-eye aerial view of the inner city
• Rare view of the city from Brixton Tower, long out of bounds to the general public. The red bars are the railings around an open platform
• View of the city from the grounds of Cottesloe Church, near Auckland Park
• View towards the city from downtown Doornfontein. The windowless brick building in the distance houses the city's telecommunications hub
• Hillbrow, Africa's closest high-rise approximation to Manhattan, rises from the parklands that surround it
• Traffic races down the eight-lane M1 highway as it cuts through an industrial area of Sandton
• Crowded Ellis Park, one of the world's great rugby stadiums, host to the Rugby World Cup in 1995
• Sporting hub of Johannesburg in Doornfontein: The athletics stadium in the foreground, Ellis Park behind
• The city's most prominent landmark: Hillbrow's flatlands, the tower at their centre, rise above the northern suburbs
• Aerial view towards Hillbrow Tower in the distance, with Parktown in the foreground
• Sunset behind Hillbrow, as seen from the south-east. Alongside the Hillbrow Tower is the cylindrical Ponte, one of the city's most prominent buildings
• View of the city from the far south, as seen from the Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve
• Hillbrow as seen from Kensington's Langermann's Kop. In the centre, one of the city's most conspicious landmarks, the illuminated Vodacom billboard at the top of the Ponte building
• Night-time along the M1 highway, with only the roadside shrubbery and park land visible
• Highways snake into the city centre
• First glimpse of the Johannesburg skyline along the highway from the industrial areas of neighbouring East Rand
• Sunset over western Johannesburg, with the Brixton tower at right
• Photo by Walter Knirr