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Mandela's house in Vilakazi St Soweto, the only street in the world with two Nobel Peace Prize winners

GCRO’s 2009 ‘Quality of Life' survey showed that 59% of GCR respondents believe that the country is on the right track

Environmental challenges in the GCR. Governments are now developing various green strategies to address these

New public transport infrastructure, including the Gautrain rapid rail link and Bus Rapid Transit, is being rolled out across the GCR

Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens, one of the many public open spaces in the city-region

Constitution Hill, housing South Africa's highest court, is also a famed tourist attraction

Formalising informal settlements and providing new forms of public housing are key policy objectives of government in the GCR

Johannesburg is said to be the largest planted urban forest in the world with millions of mature trees

'The Eland' - public art in Johannesburg. The eland represents supernatural energy, power and potency in San mythology

The Afropolitan city-region - a muti market in the Faraday taxi rank

The Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO) was established in 2008 as a partnership between the University of Johannesburg (UJ), the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits) and the Gauteng Provincial Government (GPG), with local government in Gauteng also represented on the GCRO Board.

Behind the motivation for setting up the GCRO is a vision for South Africa's economic heartland as a region that is competitive, spatially integrated, environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive.

GCRO is charged with helping to build the knowledge base that government, business, labour, civil society and citizens all need to make this vision a reality. GCRO collects data and benchmarks the city-region, provides policy analysis and support, undertakes applied research, and publishes critically reflective academic work.

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