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Densification, Quartering & Culture
Making the most of Cape Town’s limited urban space is the goal of densification. With increased density will come opportunities and challenges to create distinctive urban spaces that provide the locus for the symbolic framing of Cape Town’s many cultures.
Driving Density Higher: Challenges for Central Cape Town
Cape Town’s Central City Development Strategy aims to boost the area’s population by 100,000 within 10 years, an almost three-fold increase from the current 55,000. Here, Professor Ivan Turok discusses this bold aspiration and examines the rationale for increasing densities in the central city. What challenges will this initiative face?
India’s Urban Transformation: From Challenge To Opportunity
Aromar Revi, Director of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements on Indian urbanisation and the opportunities it presents for the country.
New York’s Sustainable Streets: Jannette Sadik-Khan
Jannette Sadik-Khan, as Transport Commissioner for New York City is responsible for the operation and maintenance of 6,000 miles of streets and highways, nearly 800 bridges, 1.3 million street signs, 300,000 streetlights and 12,000 signalized intersections. In this talk, presented in Cape Town on February 2010, she speaks of her passion for creating a people-friendly environment, placing transit and sustainability at the centre of plans to ensure the future of New York.
Shaping the City: Amanda Burden
The New York Times has described Amanda Burden, Chair of the New York City planning Commission, as “…leaving an indelible legacy of how all five boroughs will look and feel for decades to come”. In the last 10 years she has steered development in New York in a path that emphasises design, sustainability and zoning and has overseen various programmes and projects that have transformed the city. Here, she shares her insights into some of those initiatives.
A Conversation with the World Bank Urban Unit’s Junaid Ahmad
Ntombini Marrengane, State of the Cities in Africa Project Coordinator at the ACC, talks to Junaid Ahmad during a recent meeting in Cape Town
Violence Prevention Through Urban Upgrading
Matthew Krause of the groundbreaking Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading, a Khayelitsha based project that has been credited with contributing to crime prevention and community wellness.
Living in the Endless City
Ricky Burdett, director of LSE Cities and co-editor of the volume Living in the endless City, speaks about the 500-page tour de force at the Open Book Festival 2011 in Cape Town.
All About Cityscapes
In this discussion, held as part of the Open Book Festival 2011 in Cape Town, Edgar Pieterse, Tau Tavengwa and Sean O’Toole talk about the CityScapes project.
New York’s Sustainable Streets: Jannette Sadik-Kahn
Jannette Sadik-Khan, as Transport Commissioner for New York City is responsible for the operation and maintenance of 6,000 miles of streets and highways, nearly 800 bridges, 1.3 million street signs, 300,000 streetlights and 12,000 signalized intersections.