Check out this great article on the car guards in Long Street, Cape Town, in Bright Continent by Anton Crone.
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Along these city streets
I’m looking forward to opening a new solo exhibition of Mary Visser’s paintings entitled Along these City Streets, which features, amongst other things, the people, places and buildings of Upper Long Street, Cape Town.
6pm, Monday 16 May, AVA Gallery, 35 Church Street – all welcome
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The Fringe is a space to watch
Read an update of Cape Town’s The Fringe Innovation District by project coordinator Yehuda Raff (Cape Argus, 09 May 2011)
In 2007, a group of forward-thinking people got together and talked about the need to establish an environment that would support innovation and development in the design, media…
Capturing the soul of a city – it has to be on foot
The only way to capture the soul of a city is on foot. Joburg Photowalkers is a great project that attempts to do just this - check it out.
(All pictures from Joburg Photowalkers Facebook page)
Have a look at the people evaluating Cape Town’s bid to be World Design Capital 2014
56 cities in 24 countries, including Cape Town, South Africa, are bidding for the designation of World Design Capital 2014. These are the people who will determine a shortlist of three cities by July:
World Design Capital 2014 Selection Committee
Dr. Mark Breitenberg
Icsid President (USA)
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Exciting new Cape Town literary festival 21-25 September 2011
For information about an exciting new literary festival taking place in The Fringe, Cape Town’s innovation district in the Central City, see:
http://www.creativecapetown.net/opening-up-the-fringe-with-books
“Pedestrians in Cape Town are a hunted race”… We’ve made some progress
In 2005, Gehl Architects from Copenhagen did an analysis of public space and public life in the Cape Town Central City. Jan Gehl, world-renowned architect and pioneer of the city-building philosophy of “first people, then space, and then buildings”, commented at the time, when he saw the extent of car-dominance…
Cape Town World Design Capital 2014 Bid Book unveiled at City Council meeting
City of Cape Town WDC 2014 media statement
Cape Town has officially submitted its bid to be World Design Capital in 2014, an occasion marked today by the handing over of a copy of the 465-page bid book to the Executive Mayor of Cape Town, Alderman Dan Plato, by the…
Top New York City transportation and planning officials visit Cape Town as part of ITDP delegation
It’s only when I play ‘development tour guide’ in my own city that I fully appreciate all the amazing things going on. Last week was no exception. I was fortunate to help host Janette Sadik-Kahn, NYC Transport Commissioner and Amanda Burden, NYC Planning Commissioner, who visited Cape Town as part…
U2360° in Cape Town 18 February 2011
What better place to celebrate turning 52 than with U2, my family and 75 000 others at the Cape Town Stadium on a summer’s evening under a full moon?
People’s Power in an Ancient City
Who hasn’t been transfixed and moved by the scenes over the past 18 days on Cairo’s Tahrir (Liberation) Square – the brave resistance to a tyrannical regime, hopes dashed when the dictator refused to go, the celebrations and joy when he finally left?
How appropriate for us in South Africa that Mubarak’s resignation…
Cape Town living up to its reputation as an event city
Check out these great pictures from the launch of the Cape Town Carnival, which will take place in Long Street from 8pm on 19 March.
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Wooden cobbles recently discovered in Adderley Street
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