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Drawing on diversity: a City Views cover story
In honour of International Day of Biodiversity on 22 May, the May edition of City Views celebrates the abundance and variety of Cape Town, one of three cities globally that rank as an urban biodiversity hotspot.
Posted in Creative, Featured, Green, News, 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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What Design (Indaba) can mean to Cape Town
Beyond the visitor numbers and the related economic contribution; beyond the educational and reputational value of the core event, Design Indaba is an interesting case study in how design events can actively engage in making Cape Town a more liveable city. Continued…
Posted in Events, Green, Stories, Transport, Urban management.
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What opening Sea Point Promenade to bikes and boards can mean to Cape Town
What impact has allowing cyclists, skateboarders and rollerbladers onto the Sea Point promenade had? Continued…
Posted in Featured, Green, Press Releases, Safety & Security, Social Development, 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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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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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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MyCiTi hours extended for the festive season
MyCiTi buses will run one hour later on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays during the festive season, starting on 1 December 2012. There will be a special after-midnight service on 31 December to accommodate new year’s eve celebrations. Continued…
Posted in CCID, Experience Town, Featured, Green, Press Releases, Programmes, Retailers, Safety & Security, Social Development, Spaces, Success Stories, Transport, Urban management.
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An integrated transport authority launched in Cape Town
Thursday 18 October saw the launch of the new transport authority, Transport for Cape Town, at City Hall. Transport for Cape Town is a single, centralised authority for all land-based transport in the city, encompassing rail, bus, minibus and metered taxi, as well as active mobility in the form of walking, cycling and skating. The envisioned outcome of this centralised authority is an integrated public transport network with one ticket, one timetable, a unified management structure and enforcement system as well as a single standard and brand. Continued…
Posted in Business, Events, Featured, Green, News, Press Releases, Programmes, Spaces, Success Stories, Transport, Urban management.
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