Have a look at this interesting project from UCLA’s HyperCities Egypt project, which has been tracking, streaming and then archiving tweets from protesters in Cairo over the past two weeks.
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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 …
Move over New York High Line, here comes the new floating London river park
Have a look at this innovative proposal for people to regain access to the River Thames in London.
The idea by Gensler Architects to build a 1,6km long floating river walk/ park along the north bank of the River Thames recently won the Mayor’s Award for ‘Planning Excellence’ at the 2010 London Planning …
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 …
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 …
Bus Rapid Transit in Istanbul
Here’s a recent video on the new bus rapid transit system in Istanbul produced by EMBARQ, a global network which focuses on environmentally and financially sustainable transport solutions to improve quality of life, mainly in developing cities. It is part of EMBARQ’s Cities in Focus series on innovative public transport solutions.
According to EMBARQ, …
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 …
Designing solutions for people and the planet, not just more beautiful stuff
Why is Cape Town bidding for the title of World Design Capital 2014? Because there are a whole bunch of Capetonians designing socially useful things. For example, check out Uncontained Living, proposals for environmentally friendly housing by Justin Beswick.
Go to World Design Capital 2014 for more information on …
Why lively public spaces that centre around people and community, not cars, are important for democratising cities
My colleague, Ibrahim Seedat, Director of Public Transport Strategy at the South African Department of Transport, drew my attention to this great interview with former Bogotá mayor Enrique Peñalosa in Yes! Magazine.
In Ibrahim’s words, “Even though you have heard it all before, it is always a refreshing option to read Penalosa …
No African cities feature in the top 100 cities of the 2010 global innovation economy index
No African cities feature in the top 100 cities of the 2010 global innovative economy index, published by the Melbourne-based 2thinknow Innovation Cities™ Program. Cape Town is ranked third in the emerging cities innovation index, after Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
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Wooden cobbles recently discovered in Adderley Street
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Integrated Rapid Transport in Cape Town – no other alternative
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