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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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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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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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Traces of the future in the present
Cape Town’s future is made every day out of the individual actions of ordinary Capetonians. As we wind up 2012, we took a closer look at events and occurrences during the year that point to what we can become as a city – together. Continued…
Posted in About, Developments, Events, Experience Town, Featured, Green, News, Safety & Security, Spaces, Stories, Success Stories, Transport, Urban management.
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Summer celebrations: What to do in Cape Town this festive season
Wondering what to do about town during the summer of 2012? Schedule these events in your calendar. Continued…
Posted in Developments, Featured, Programmes, Retailers, Safety & Security, Stories, Success Stories, Urban management.
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Living in the Central City: Alan Storey
Alan Storey, minister at the Central Methodist Mission on Greenmarket Square, lives, works and gardens in the Central City. He shares some of his urban passions with City Views’ writer Alma Viviers over “heavenly coffee and wicked cupcakes”.
Posted in Developments, Experience Town, Featured, Green, News, Social Development, Spaces, Stories, Success Stories, Urban management.
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Stop, collaborate and listen: A City Views cover story
Have you been wondering what the eye-catching yellow and black symbols, featured on the November cover of City Views, stand for? Wonder no more. These symbols, and the sign to which they belong, were spotted on the Portside building site in Bree Street, and refer to building contractor Murray & Robert’s “stop and think” safety campaign. Continued…
Posted in About, Developments, Experience Town, Featured, News, Retailers, Safety & Security, Social Development, Spaces, Stories, Success Stories, Transport, Urban management.
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Cape Town’s e-permit system helps informal traders
An online permit system has made it easier for Cape Town’s informal traders to find and apply for trading space in the city. Continued…
Posted in Business, CCID, Developments, Featured, News, Retailers, Safety & Security, Stories, Success Stories, Urban management.
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Taking the train
On a rain-splattered Thursday, City Views’ writer Alma Viviers ventured into the Southern Suburbs to take the morning train from Plumstead to the Central City with regular commuter Anton Pietersen. Continued…
Posted in Business, CCID, Developments, Events, Experience, Experience Town, Featured, News, Retailers, Safety & Security, Spaces, Stories, Success Stories, Transport, Urban management.
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