City of Cape Town’s Business Plan to Fix Urban Rail
Why fixing Cape Town’s rail network is an economic, moral and practical necessity
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Cape Town joins worldwide competition, launching 5 sites for carbon neutral development
Cape Town joins the worldwide C40 competition to calling on the private sector and communities to devise carbon neutral development solutions and designs for underutilised publicly owned sites in C40 member cities
EVENT : Bicycle Urbanism by Design | Lecture by Copenhagenize Design Company CEO, Mikael Colville-Andersen
[ December 4, 2017; 5:30 pm; ] Our next event welcomes a global leading voice on bicycle planning in cities.
How can urban housing become more integrated in Cape Town : 8 Potential Scenarios
A series of graphics demonstrating a number of potential scenarios for the integration of different housing tenures in Woodstock and Salt River.
Open Call : Ideas for the water crisis at Church Square’s new pop-up park
Submit an idea through the Open Call for water awareness interventions at the giant artificial grass rug that will be in Church Square from 27 November 2017 to 16 May 2018.
5 design proposals for the Woodstock and Salt River affordable housing sites
Urban designer Azraa Rawoot speculates about the potential for the 5 affordable housing sites in Woodstock and Salt River to be released to developers by the City of Cape Town.
Designing high-rise buildings to include mixed-income housing : A Cape Town case study
Read about a student’s ideas for a mixed-income high-rise residential development at the Cape Town Station in order to deal with rapid urbanisation and inequality.
The best architecture in Africa : 4 inspiring projects recognised at the Africa Architecture Awards
Read about the winners of the Africa Architecture Awards, celebrating great architecture across the African continent.
Learning from US policies to deliver mixed-income affordable housing in South Africa
Various types of mixed-income housing models have been implemented throughout the world, and in particular in the US. A property studies student discusses strengths and weaknesses of some of these policy approaches and how South Africa could learn from them.
Can Airbnb benefit an affordable housing development model? The PRIDES Ubunt Living Approach
Students at the Institute of Design Thinking in Cape Town explore the possibilities for a housing development model which generates revenues to sustain and support the livelihood of its tenants.