Maboneng Precinct

This guide to the Maboneng Precinct in Johannesburg traces the inner-city district's transformation from a razor-wire, no-go zone in 2008, when developer Jonathan Liebmann bought a derelict Fox Street warehouse and took the fencing down. You'll hear how a former indoor whippet-racing track became studios and galleries, and how his company Propertuity grew to control dozens of buildings across the neighborhood he named Maboneng, place of light. A tip for walking it: look up at the murals along the open streets he insisted on building without gates.