Andrew Boraine » Public Space for Public Life 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 Stop the Secrecy Bill: Pictures from Right2Know march, Cape Town, 17 September http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/09/stop-the-secrecy-bill-pictures-from-right2know-march-cape-town-17-september/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/09/stop-the-secrecy-bill-pictures-from-right2know-march-cape-town-17-september/#comments Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:54:17 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=4100  

  

  

 

  

]]> http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/09/stop-the-secrecy-bill-pictures-from-right2know-march-cape-town-17-september/feed/ 0 Who will lead the economic inclusion agenda when working class leaders abandon that role through ill-disciplined actions? http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/08/who-will-lead-the-economic-inclusion-agenda-when-working-class-leaders-abandon-that-role-through-ill-disciplined-actions/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/08/who-will-lead-the-economic-inclusion-agenda-when-working-class-leaders-abandon-that-role-through-ill-disciplined-actions/#comments Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:06:55 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=4058 Economic development involves at least three distinctive clusters of activity – growth, development and inclusion. These need to be integrated into a single development framework: its not not ‘either/ or’, all are needed.

Our regional economic strategy needs to take the growth agenda more seriously. This is why the EDA…

]]> http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/08/who-will-lead-the-economic-inclusion-agenda-when-working-class-leaders-abandon-that-role-through-ill-disciplined-actions/feed/ 0 World Design Capital 2014 deadline for shortlisted cities draws near http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/06/world-design-capital-2014-deadline-for-shortlisted-cities-draws-near/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/06/world-design-capital-2014-deadline-for-shortlisted-cities-draws-near/#comments Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:32:58 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=3957 The Premier of the Western Cape, Helen Zille, and the Executive Mayor of Cape Town, Patricia de Lille, joined together yesterday to lend their support to Cape Town’s bid for World Design Capital 2014. On 21 June, Icsid will announce the names of the three cities (out of 56 bidding cities)…

]]> http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/06/world-design-capital-2014-deadline-for-shortlisted-cities-draws-near/feed/ 0 Quo vadis V&A Waterfront, Foreshore, Culemborg? http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/05/quo-vadis-va-waterfront-foreshore-culemborg/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/05/quo-vadis-va-waterfront-foreshore-culemborg/#comments Tue, 31 May 2011 19:09:25 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=3890 I anticipate a good discussion on the future of the Cape Town Central City at the next meeting of our Partner’s Forum on 14 June. There will be inputs by Wayne van der Vent of the PIC’s Real Estate Asset Managers on their future role in Cape Town including the V&A Waterfront and the PIC’s…

]]> http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/05/quo-vadis-va-waterfront-foreshore-culemborg/feed/ 0 At street level, where public and private spaces intersect, things get really interesting… http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/05/at-street-level-where-public-and-private-spaces-intersect-things-get-really-interesting/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/05/at-street-level-where-public-and-private-spaces-intersect-things-get-really-interesting/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 03:38:54 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=3857 This is a copy of my talk at the opening of Along these City Streets, an exhibition by Mary Visser currently on at the AVA Gallery at 35 Church Street, Cape Town.

Mary Visser has produced a most beautiful set of paintings for her new exhibition – Along these City…

]]> http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/05/at-street-level-where-public-and-private-spaces-intersect-things-get-really-interesting/feed/ 3 Big Ride In welcomes Tour d’Afrique and helps promote ‘active transport’ in Cape Town http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/05/big-ride-in-welcomes-tour-dafrique-and-helps-promote-active-transport-in-cape-town/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/05/big-ride-in-welcomes-tour-dafrique-and-helps-promote-active-transport-in-cape-town/#comments Sun, 15 May 2011 13:07:44 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=3804  A bunch of Capetonians on bicycles, skateboards and other forms of non-motorised transport took part in a Big Ride In to welcome the Tour d’Afrique riders who arrived in Cape Town after cycling 12 000km through Africa. 

One of the host organisations was the Bicycling Empowerment Network (BEN),…

]]> http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/05/big-ride-in-welcomes-tour-dafrique-and-helps-promote-active-transport-in-cape-town/feed/ 0 Meet the car guards of Long Street, Cape Town http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/05/meet-the-car-guards-of-long-street-cape-town/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/05/meet-the-car-guards-of-long-street-cape-town/#comments Mon, 09 May 2011 20:02:27 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=3759 Check out this great article on the car guards in Long Street, Cape Town, in Bright Continent by Anton Crone.

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6pm, Monday 16 May, AVA Gallery, 35 Church Street – all welcome

 

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]]> http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/05/along-these-city-streets/feed/ 0 The Fringe is a space to watch http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/05/the-fringe-is-a-space-to-watch/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/05/the-fringe-is-a-space-to-watch/#comments Mon, 09 May 2011 19:26:56 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=3765 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…

]]> http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/05/the-fringe-is-a-space-to-watch/feed/ 1 Dramatic contrast between old and new as Seville completes world’s largest wooden structure to enhance public space http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/05/dramatic-contrast-between-old-and-new-as-seville-completes-worlds-largest-wooden-structure-to-enhance-public-space/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/05/dramatic-contrast-between-old-and-new-as-seville-completes-worlds-largest-wooden-structure-to-enhance-public-space/#comments Sun, 08 May 2011 20:33:21 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=3746 Check out the amazing recently completed Metrosol Parasol in Seville, Spain, apparently the largest wooden structure in the world. The Parasol, a series of  canopies over a public space, is an ultrmodern structure in the middle of medieval Seville. It houses an archaeological museum, a farmers market, an elevated plaza, and a restaurant,…

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