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State of the Central City: Clean, safe, inclusive and open for business
The first annual State of the Central City Report affirms Cape Town as a premier destination for work and play. Continued…
Posted in Business, CCID, Events, Experience Town, Featured, News, Press Releases, Safety & Security, Social Development, Spaces, Success Stories, Transport, Urban management.
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Towards a 24-hour city for Cape Town
Recently, the Cape Town Partnership co-hosted a discussion – entitled Reviving Our Inner Cities – about the pressing need for a more diverse housing solution in Cape Town, particularly near and in the Central City. Continued…
Posted in Developments, Events, Experience Town, Featured, Green, News, Other Events, Programmes, Retailers, Spaces, Stories, Transport, Urban management.
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Talking about urban transformation with Njabulo Ndebele
In the August 2012 edition of City Views, we published an interview with Professor Njabulo Ndebele – an acclaimed writer, teacher, thinker and the former vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town – about his current role as the chairperson of the Cape Town Partnership board and his views on our urban (and social) transformation. Given the word limit dictated by the printed page, however, we weren’t able to run the full interview. Here is the extended version for your reading (and thinking) pleasure. Continued…
Posted in CCID, Creative, Developments, Events, Experience Town, Featured, Green, News, Social Development, Stories, Transport, Urban management.
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My Cape Town: Laureen Rossouw
Laureen Rossouw is editor of ELLE Decoration and also happens to live in the Central City. She took time to share her town-related thoughts, tips and trends for 2012. Continued…
Posted in Experience Town, Featured, News, Safety & Security, Spaces, Stories.
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CCID donates 500 pairs of shoes to the city’s homeless – and how to help
The Cape Town Central Improvement District recently presented 500 pairs of men’s shoes to various charities working with homeless people in the Central City. Tasso Evangelinos, COO of the CCID, said that he hoped that the shoes could provide extra comfort and dignity for some of the city’s most vulnerable. Continued…
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Selling a Central City idea
As the Central City of Cape Town continues to strive for ways in which to stimulate and grow the economic, social and cultural fibre of the CBD, an important lesson has come out of a partnership with Barcelona. Photo:Jordi Sacristan, Marketing and Communications Director for 22@Barcelona, and Bulelwa Ngewana, deputy CE of the Cape Town Partnership during the Conference. Continued…
Posted in Urban management.
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Barcelona brings urban and economic redevelopment lessons to Cape Town
Decaying and forgotten city areas have the potential to be transformed if stakeholders can intensify their knowledge-driven activities and profit from them. This is according to Jordi Sacristan, marketing and communications director for the Spanish urban regeneration project 22@Barcelona. He was sharing lessons on urban regeneration at a Cape Town Partnership’s 10th anniversary conference on 18 and 19 August, marking the tenth anniversary of the Partnership. Continued…
Posted in Urban management.
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Public-private partnerships and urban regeneration in the central city
The presentation presented at the Cape Town Partnership 10 year urban renewal conference held on the 18th and 19th of August. Continued…
Posted in Presentations.
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