I took a group of 25 international journalists on a walking tour of the Cape Town Central City this morning. The weather was awful, a typical wet Cape winter’s day, but true to our motto – we walk, come rain or shine – we set off in good spirits. The group is…
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The ‘unhappy compromise’ shows signs of coming of age
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.…
Fan Walk tradition continues as Mandela Day is celebrated in Cape Town Central City
Citizens spontaneously reactivated the 2010 Fan Walk yesterday to say no to xenophobia and happy birthday to Nelson Mandela. Bravo to Charly’s Bakery for taking the lead, and to everyone who took part.
The Ubuntu Festival in Upper St George’s Mall was also a great success. The Festival, which focuses…
Cape Town Fan Walk lives on through citizen action on Mandela Day, 18 July
Jacquie Biess is a Capetonian who enjoyed the experience of walking the Fan Walk during the 2010 World Cup. Now she is doing it again for a cause.
On Mandela Day, Sunday, 18 July, Jacquie and her three daughters, all of Charly’s Bakery in the East City, will be on the…
Fan Walk will provide unique flavour to Cape Town’s World Cup
The Fan Walk, which connects the Cape Town Central City to the Cape Town Stadium, is based on an adaptation of the route followed by the Cape Minstrels or Kaapse Klopse every year for the traditional Tweede Nuwe Jaar (2nd January) carnival procession. In other words, it is a route…
Cape Town Central City: Reclaiming people’s spaces (part one)
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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For sure, freeways?
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Integrated Rapid Transport in Cape Town – no other alternative
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Cape Town Station Square – unburied treasure
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Bright lights, dark alleys*
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I love it when a plan comes together
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Why lively public spaces that center around people and community, not cars, are important for democratising cities
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Transforming the city through redesigning public spaces for people
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City of Cape Town considers new urban densification policy
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Where is the centre of Cape Town?
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Jay Walking in Cape Town
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