The annual Community Chest Twilight Run provided another opportunity for Capetonians to take over the streets of the Central City. In the spirit of the 2010 World Cup Fan Walk, over 25 000 people, many dressed in outlandish gear and cheered on by an enthusiastic crowd, ran/walked a 5km route …
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Talkin’ bicycle blues, or why don’t more people use bicycles as their primary means of transport in South African cities?
Today I was introduced to an amazing project called Bicycle Portraits, which investigates bicycle culture in South Africa, and in particular, the lack of cyclist commuters on the roads. Its run by Stan Engelbrecht and Nic Grobler, who travel around South Africa meeting fellow cyclists and taking pictures of them …
Walking blues 2, or the importance of a legible city
Continuing on the theme of walking blues, while in London last week, I came across a campaign called Legible London run by the Applied Information Group (AIG) on behalf of Transport for London. The idea of Legible London is to provide better support for the millions who walk every …
Design South Africa, Design Cape Town
Creative Cape Town is hosting a design networking event on Tuesday 16 November. You’re invited to come listen to Zahira Asmal talk about her Designing South Africa project that captures and documents the legacy of the World Cup in terms of design aesthetics. Cape Town Tourism’s Mariette Du Toit Helmbold speaks about …
Support Cape Town’s bid for World Design Capital 2014
The bidding process is now officially open for the designation of World Design Capital 2014.
The bi-annual award is bestowed by the International Council for Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) to cities dedicated to using design for their social, economic and cultural development. A World Design Capital designation gives a …
Bidding for City cultural awards – learning from Donostia-San Sebastian
I’ve just spent three days in the Basque city of Donostia-San Sebastian, where I was a speaker at the World Urban Development Congress (INTA 34). I was interested to discover that San Sebastian is a candidate city for the European Capital of Culture 2016. Given Cape Town’s current bid …
A year of blogging dangerously
I see that I have written 148 posts on ‘Cities for People’ since I started blogging in October 2009. That’s more than a post every three days, which I’m told is the least one must do to keep one’s readers vaguely interested. Blogging has been a great opportunity to get back into the art of …
Creativity alive and well and living in Cape Town
If you are interested in design trends, you need to get the new Creative Cape Town Annual, produced by Bell Roberts Publishing in conjunction with Creative Cape Town. You can flip through the pages here, or get hold of a hard copy from the Cape Town Partnership offices in Bree Street (call …
Wooden cobbles recently discovered in Adderley Street
A popular tradition of the Cape Town Partnership AGM is to take our guests on development walking tours of the Central City after the formal business has been concluded. This year, there were four choices of tour: East City Design Initiative, Cape Town’s World Design Capital 2014 Bid, Public Transport Improvements, …
Cities for visitors or for locals? A journey through the ‘top 200′ cities of the world
Many of my posts this year have tended to focus on the impact of the 2010 Football World Cup in Cape Town. Well, it was considerable. But now that the big event has come and gone, I thought that it would be nice to broaden my horizons once again and …
The joys of sauntering the city
The great Baudelairean tradition of strolling the streets to discover the city is well captured by Jacob Dlamini in a recent article on walking in Johannesburg (yes, apparently it is possible – see below). He reminds us that one of the consequences of suburban life is the diminution of the rights of pedestrians in favour of cars. …
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Wooden cobbles recently discovered in Adderley Street
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