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Counter-currents : experiments in sustainability in the Cape Town region /

Title
Counter-currents : experiments in sustainability in the Cape Town region / [edited by Edgar Pieterse].
Publication
Auckland Park : Jacana Media, c2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Pieterse, E. A. (Edgar A.)
  • University of Cape Town. African Centre for Cities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009171796
Description
273 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
Subject
  • City planning > Cape Town
  • Sustainable urban development > Cape Town
  • Sustainable urban development > Government policy > Cape Town
Note
  • Published in association with the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction / Edgar Pieterse -- The dynamic of leadership in Cape Town / David Schmidt -- Jane Alexander: hunger artist / Ashraf Jamal -- The right to the city / Abdoumaliq Simone -- Karen Press -- The Cape Town 2030 Initiative: a contested vision of the future / Stephen Boshoff -- Towards urban infrastructure sustainability in Cape Town / Wendy Crane ... [et al.] -- Public transport: tackling Cape Town's Achilles heel / Herrie Schalekamp -- Making public space in 21st century Cape Town: an idealistic planning construct or a catalytic city building project? / Barbara Southworth -- Cape Town central city development strategy / Andrew Borraine -- District Six development framework: prospects for urban and social sustainability / Lucien le Grange & Nisa Mammon -- Oude Moulen: imagining sustainable human settlements / Mokena Makeka -- Kosovo informal settlement upgrade: sustainability towards dignified communities / Gita Goven -- An experiment in innovative public housing / Luyanda Mpahlwa -- Photo essay: Cape integrated / curated by Tau Tavengwa -- Nurturing creativity: the Spier experiment / Tanner Methvin -- A development plan for Paardvlei, Somerset West / Dave Dewar & Piet Louw -- Space and transformation: reflections on the Cape schools programme / Iain Louw -- Regional development: a new pathway to a more equitable and resilient Cape Town? / Sue Parnell & Greg Clarke -- Dealing with sustainability / Mark Swilling -- Why is transformative change so elusive?: roundtable -- Conclusion: Re-imagining Cape Town through the rebus of identity, economy and ecology / Edgar Pieterse.
ISBN
  • 9781770097957
  • 1770097953
LCCN
2010486119
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library