Cities for People | Andrew Boraine
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I love cities - their sounds, smells, colours, vistas, the histories and memories built into their walls and streets, the constantly changing streetscapes and skylines. In particular, I love cities th
Infrastructure for 2010 and beyond: Hospital Bend upgrade
Cities for People | Andrew Boraine
For those of you who are wondering just how the new Hospital Bend pre-selection scheme is going to work, here it is (inbound example): Download a larger PDF (1,8MB) version Hosp_Bend_INBOUND
Alejandro Aravena: design for social change
Cities for People | Andrew Boraine
Many delegates to the recent Design Indaba conference in Cape Town have told me how impressed they were with the presentation by Alejandro Aravena, a Chilean architect, on the design and financing of affordable housing. I unfortunately missed the presentation, but here are two views worth...
Spier Contemporary coming soon to a large City Hall near you
Cities for People | Andrew Boraine
I’ve been given the honour by the Africa Centre of opening the Spier Contemporary 2010, the largest biennale art exhibition in South Africa, this coming Saturday (13 March) at the Cape Town City Hall. Hmmm, what to say to a daunting array of artists, art critics, journalists,...
New forum for urban debate
Cities for People | Andrew Boraine
“Urban place-making can’t be left to the professionals”. With that bold statement, two Capetonians, Mokena Makeka and Rory Williams, have launched a new weekly column on urban issues in the Cape Times newspaper. Read their first column and check out...
Inclusive memorialisation?
Cities for People | Andrew Boraine
There’s been quite a bit of discussion recently on the issue of street renaming. My colleague, Ryland Fisher, writing in the Cape Argus on 22 February, asked what has happened to the working group leading a renaming process set up by the City of Cape Town a few years ago: “This group,...
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