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Stop waiting, start making: Lessons in liveability from Jeanne van Heeswijk
Based in Rotterdam, Jeanne van Heeswijk is a visual artist who creates situations in public places to provoke interactions between members of the public. These provocations include talking to trees, arranging fashion marches and baking bread, but all are aimed at setting up opportunities for new encounters and dialogue – in a way is finely tuned to the subtlety of needs, desires and ambitions of a local people and place. Jeanne presented some of her work at Design Indaba 2013. Here she shares more of her thoughts on public engagement, gentrification and the value of co-production:
Posted in Creative, Events, Featured, Spaces, Stories.
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Open Streets gains momentum in Cape Town
Open Streets Cape Town recently held its second walk-and-talk along Albert Road in Woodstock. Over 30 members of the community, city officials, cyclists and street activists came together to walk along a portion of this important thoroughfare and discuss ways in which it could become a more people-friendly space. Continued…
Posted in Experience Town, Featured, Green, News, Safety & Security, Social Development, Spaces, Transport, Urban management.
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Housing: temporary intervention vs permanent solution
Informal settlements are a common reality in Cape Town and South Africa’s urban landscape. Dire living conditions are the backdrop to the lack of services like proper sanitation and refuse removal, clean water, public health initiatives, adequate safety and access to economic opportunity. Shack fires regularly rip through these informal settlements, taking lives, ravaging homes and destroying earthly possessions. During the rainy season families are flooded out of their homes into temporary housing, in conditions exacerbated by Cape Town’s icy winters. These familiar experiences have become a regular feature in a country that has collectively failed to address the issue of dignified housing for all.
Posted in Developments, Featured, Green, Social Development, Spaces, Stories.
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The community stories behind Cape Town Carnival
The Cape Town Carnival doesn’t only bring people together on the day of the parade. Behind the costumes and colourful floats, it also sets an example of how a single annual event can help build communities all year round. Continued…
Posted in Creative, Events, Experience, Experience Town, Featured, News, Spaces, Stories, Success Stories, Urban management.
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What museums can mean to us and Cape Town
Iziko Museums of South Africa’s CEO Rooksana Omar – who has been in her position just over two years – tells why museums matter and which spaces inspire her in Cape Town. City Views‘ Ambre Nicolson spoke to her. Continued…
Posted in Featured, News, Programmes, Social Development, Spaces, Urban management.
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A family talks about living in Cape Town’s central city
A young family traded in their life in their “forever” home in Johannesburg for an opportunity to lead a simpler life in Cape Town’s central city. Almost a year later, they’ve settled into a more public life of beaches, parks and public spaces. Continued…
Posted in CCID, Developments, Experience Town, Featured, News, Programmes, Safety & Security, Spaces, Stories, Success Stories, Transport, Urban management.
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A lesson in lasting relationships in Cape Town
His t-shirt says it all: “I am M24”. For the past 12 years Nicolas, the client liaison working in the lobby of the building, has been synonymous with a visit to Naspers and Media24. Continued…
Posted in Experience Town, Featured, News, Safety & Security, Social Development, Spaces, Stories, Urban management.
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The story of laundry over three centuries of Cape Town life
Laundry – whether you do it yourself or someone helps you – is as much a part of our daily existence today as it was three hundred years ago. What was and is some of the culture surrounding the cleaning and pressing of clothes in Cape Town?
Posted in About, Events, Experience Town, Featured, News, Retailers, Safety & Security, Spaces, Stories, Success Stories, Urban management.
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Invitation: Comment on the Urban Design Framework for the Fringe
The City of Cape Town is calling on interested parties to comment on the final draft of the Urban Design Framework for the Fringe, as part of the final round of public participation. Continued…
Posted in Creative, Developments, Events, Experience Town, Featured, Green, Presentations, Press Releases, Programmes, Spaces, Stories, Success Stories, Transport, Urban management.
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Mother City manners: Urban resolutions for the new year
Manners do matter. In a world in which more and more people are moving to the city, it is increasingly important to be a considerate city dweller. So this year, when you’re thinking about your new year’s resolutions, why not factor in some urban etiquette too. Here are just 10 things you can do – as a commuter, community member and consumer – to make Cape Town a more liveable city. Go on, make someone’s day. Continued…
Posted in About, Developments, Events, Experience, Experience Town, Featured, Safety & Security, Social Development, Spaces, Stories, Success Stories, Transport, Urban management.
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