Andrew Boraine » 2010 FIFA Football World Cup http://www.andrewboraine.com Cities for People Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:23:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 World Cup legacy: more bids to get South Africans out of their cars http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/09/world-cup-legacy-more-bids-to-get-south-africans-out-of-their-cars/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/09/world-cup-legacy-more-bids-to-get-south-africans-out-of-their-cars/#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:19:40 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=2500 Nate Berg writes in the Christian Science Monitor about the impact of the 2010 World Cup, and in particular, the Cape Town Fan Walk, on promoting a culture of walking. See article

]]> http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/09/world-cup-legacy-more-bids-to-get-south-africans-out-of-their-cars/feed/ 1 ‘Not soon. Not just now. Now. Because if you don’t, who will?’ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/08/%e2%80%98not-soon-not-just-now-now-because-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-who-will%e2%80%99/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/08/%e2%80%98not-soon-not-just-now-now-because-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-who-will%e2%80%99/#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:33:54 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=2141 One of the unexpected treats of the 2010 World Cup was having something other than political wrangling to read about on the front pages of our newspapers every day. For a whole month.

No disrespect intended, but sometimes we in South Africa get a little obsessed with what politicians are saying and doing. I…

]]> http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/08/%e2%80%98not-soon-not-just-now-now-because-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-who-will%e2%80%99/feed/ 0 Post 2010 paradigm shifts create opportunities for new city development http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/07/post-2010-paradigm-shifts-create-opportunities-for-new-city-development/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/07/post-2010-paradigm-shifts-create-opportunities-for-new-city-development/#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:12:12 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=2113 In 2008, the City of Cape Town and the Cape Town Partnership published the Central City Development Strategy – a framework to guide change and manage growth over the next ten years. We are currently reviewing and updating the strategy in light of the 2010 World Cup experience.…

]]> http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/07/post-2010-paradigm-shifts-create-opportunities-for-new-city-development/feed/ 8 2010 World Cup: More of an afterglow than a hangover! http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/07/2010-world-cup-more-of-an-afterglow-than-a-hangover/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/07/2010-world-cup-more-of-an-afterglow-than-a-hangover/#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:20:44 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=1883 What better place to say farewell to the 2010 World Cup than in Upper Long Street? I watched the gut-wrenching final between Holland and Spain with friends and family at Long Street Cafe.

Long Street has been the epicentre of the Cape Town late night World Cup party for the…

]]> http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/07/2010-world-cup-more-of-an-afterglow-than-a-hangover/feed/ 3 Ten reasons why the Cape Town 2010 Fan Walk worked so well http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/07/tens-reasons-why-the-cape-town-2010-fan-walk-worked-so-well/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/07/tens-reasons-why-the-cape-town-2010-fan-walk-worked-so-well/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:46:34 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=1861 The Cape Town Fan Walk has become one of the talking points of Cape Town’s World Cup experience. The editorial in today’s Cape Argus described it as a ‘masterstroke’. John Robbie of 702 Talk Radio asked me yesterday to what we as a city owed the success of the Fan…

]]> http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/07/tens-reasons-why-the-cape-town-2010-fan-walk-worked-so-well/feed/ 7 Cape Town shows the world how to street party http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/07/cape-town-shows-the-world-how-to-street-party/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/07/cape-town-shows-the-world-how-to-street-party/#comments Sun, 04 Jul 2010 23:50:53 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=1810
We were hoping to get 100 000 people on the Cape Town Fan Walk for the Germany vs Argentina 2010 World Cup Quarter Final match. At its peak, the Fan Walk hit an estimated 153 000! This means that when 65 000 people were in the stadium, over 90 000 continued

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]]> http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/06/2020-olympic-bid-next-big-thing-or-red-herring/feed/ 2 Navigating the Cape Town Central City http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/06/navigating-the-cape-town-central-city/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/06/navigating-the-cape-town-central-city/#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:42:00 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=1789 As part of our efforts to make the Cape Town Central City more navigable for tourists (and local suburbanites!) during the 2010 World Cup, the Cape Town Partnership and CCID asked Chip Snaddon, well known local cartoonist and illustrator at the Cape Argus, to draw us a humerous guide which showed,…

]]> http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/06/navigating-the-cape-town-central-city/feed/ 0 “We won the French!” http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/06/we-won-the-french/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/06/we-won-the-french/#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:43:39 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=1749 You would swear from the reaction of the crowd in the streets after the Bafana-French match that we were through to the next round. Everyone was beaming, blowing vuvuzelas, and dancing up and down with great pride. My best moment was when a stranger came up to me in Long Street and shouted…

]]> http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/06/we-won-the-french/feed/ 1 Heaven forbid we return to business as usual in the city http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/06/heaven-forbid-we-return-to-business-as-usual-in-the-city/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/06/heaven-forbid-we-return-to-business-as-usual-in-the-city/#comments Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:35:09 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=1668 Cape Town will never be the same again. Not after the experience of the World Cup. I’m not talking about the infrastructure legacy, or the new facilities created, or the worldwide exposure for Cape Town as a destination. I’m talking about the way in which our attitudes to using the city…

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