Crafting Our Own African Story
We need to tell the story of the African city in our own way and on our own terms, only this way can we begin to unravel the stereotype that is widely held about them.
Inner City Revitalisation: The Woodstock – Salt River Revitalisation Framework
The historic local areas of Woodstock and Salt River are located approximately 3k from the Cape Town Central Business District, between the Devil’s Peak mountain and the sea.
Why Is Change Elusive In Cape Town – Part 2
Part 2 features various Cape Town based academics and urban practitioners in a candid conversation about the city’s prospects
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.
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Southern Theory Revisited: Raewyn Connell
Professor Raewyn Connell gave this seminar on her 21 July 2011 visit to Cape Town as part of the ACC’s Seminar Series.
African Perspectives [South Africa]: City, Society, Space, Literature & Architecture
This volume of the Delft School of Design Series focuses on particular urban questions related to the South African urban context. The book seeks to construct a contemporary critical dialogue of current spatial practises and contemporary design instruments in relation to social, political and governance structures through an architectural and urban lens.