Tag Archives: Artscape

The ‘unhappy compromise’ shows signs of coming of age

07 August 10 5 Comments

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The Cape Town Foreshore has been described as an ‘unhappy compromise’ resulting in series of ‘wind-blown stretches of asphalt and concrete, filled with car parks and roaring traffic, inaccessible to pedestrians.’* Yet on a still winter’s morning, in the early dawn light, on foot, the Foreshore can almost be beautiful.…

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Post 2010 paradigm shifts create opportunities for new city development

30 July 10 8 Comments

Pedestrian zone in Adderley Street

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.…

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Cape Town Squared (or how some of our most valuable public assets are not being properly used)

20 July 10 5 Comments

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Do you remember the popular zebra artworks dotted around public spaces in Cape Town during the World Cup? Well, they’ve now migrated to the Artscape Piazza on the Foreshore.

The 33 zebras form an exhibition entitled ‘Not all is Black and White’, by the World for All…

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Creating Spaces for Creatives

02 May 10 0 Comments

Given our commitment in Cape Town to supporting and developing creative industries, I was interested to see what Toronto is doing when I visited there two weeks ago. After all, it’s where Richard Florida, influential writer on the role of the creative classes in cities, now directs the Martin Prosperity Institute,…

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