Giving responsibly in the Cape Town Central City
Business Improvement Districts, or BIDs, were first established in Canada and the US in the 1960s and 70s. Since then, they have become popular mechanisms in many cities throughout the world to ensure...
View ArticleWhy Cape Town works
The Cape Town Central City features very positively in a recent article by Alan Cameron at iafrica.com entitled ‘Why Cape Town works’. The article is based partly on comparisons between the Cape Town...
View Article350 000 people in Cape Town Central City for start of Football World Cup
The City of Cape Town estimates that an astounding 350 000 people visited the Cape Town Central City area on Friday 11 June to watch the World Cup Opening Ceremony and Bafana Bafana-Mexico game on TV...
View ArticleTen reasons why the Cape Town 2010 Fan Walk worked so well
The Cape Town Fan Walk has become one of the talking points of Cape Town’s World Cup experience. The editorial in today’s Cape Argus described it as a ‘masterstroke’. John Robbie of 702 Talk Radio...
View ArticleThe ‘unhappy compromise’ shows signs of coming of age
The Cape Town Foreshore has been described as an ‘unhappy compromise’ resulting in series of ‘wind-blown stretches of asphalt and concrete, filled with car parks and roaring traffic, inaccessible to...
View ArticleAt street level, where public and private spaces intersect, things get really...
This is a copy of my talk at the opening of Along these City Streets, an exhibition by Mary Visser currently on at the AVA Gallery at 35 Church Street, Cape Town. Mary Visser has produced a most...
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