Andrew Boraine » Jan Gehl 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 “Pedestrians in Cape Town are a hunted race”… We’ve made some progress http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/04/pedestrians-in-cape-town-are-a-hunted-race-weve-made-some-progress/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/04/pedestrians-in-cape-town-are-a-hunted-race-weve-made-some-progress/#comments Sun, 17 Apr 2011 20:03:17 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=3564 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…

]]> http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/04/pedestrians-in-cape-town-are-a-hunted-race-weve-made-some-progress/feed/ 1 New exhibition in Cape Town: Beyond car-dependent models of city development http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/04/new-exhibition-in-cape-town-beyond-car-dependent-models-of-city-development/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/04/new-exhibition-in-cape-town-beyond-car-dependent-models-of-city-development/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:27:03 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=3532 Our Cities Ourselves: The Future of Transportation in Urban Life showcases the potential transformational role of transportation in ten major cities across the world and illustrates how the dream of a sustainable, equitable and liveable future can be realized when transport is a core foundation.

Ten of the world’s leading…

]]> http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/04/new-exhibition-in-cape-town-beyond-car-dependent-models-of-city-development/feed/ 0 Laneways, Sydney: Using Public Art to Revitalise City Spaces http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/01/laneways-sydney-using-public-art-to-revitalise-city-spaces/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/01/laneways-sydney-using-public-art-to-revitalise-city-spaces/#comments Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:52:50 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=741 While in Sydney, I was taken on a fantastic walking tour of some of the laneways that are part of a CBD lane revitalisation strategy. One of the ways in which this is being done is through an innovative urban art installation project called By George! Hidden Networks (George…

]]> http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/01/laneways-sydney-using-public-art-to-revitalise-city-spaces/feed/ 2 Cape Town Central City: Reclaiming people’s spaces (part one) http://www.andrewboraine.com/2009/12/cape-town-central-city-reclaiming-peoples-spaces-part-one/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2009/12/cape-town-central-city-reclaiming-peoples-spaces-part-one/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:47:17 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=534 When Jan Gehl, world-renowned architect who focuses on ’life between buildings’ visited in 2004, he described pedestrians in Cape Town as a ‘hunted race’. He was right. Thanks to grievous urban planning errors in the 1970s, a six-lane race track called Strand Street intersects with an eight-lane monstrosity called the Heerengracht, creating…

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