Tag Archives: Pedestrians

Walking blues, or how to make Cape Town a more walkable city

21 November 10 9 Comments

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At one level, Cape Town is a city prominently associated with walking – on the mountains, the beaches, the Sea Point Promenade, the walkway from Muizenberg to Kalk Bay. In particular, one thinks of Peter Slingsby’s wonderful hiking maps and Mike Lundy’s influential Best Walks in the Cape…

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World Cup legacy: more bids to get South Africans out of their cars

04 September 10 1 Comment

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Nate Berg writes in the Christian Science Monitor about the impact of the 2010 World Cup, and in particular, the Cape Town Fan Walk, on promoting a culture of walking. See article

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Cape Town Central City: Reclaiming people’s spaces (part one)

03 December 09 5 Comments

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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