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The housing conundrum facing Cape Town
On 24 August 2013, Future Cape Town hosted the Open City Mini-Conference at City Hall, with numerous speakers and thought-leaders presenting on the themes of an ‘Open City’. One topic that elicited...
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Cape Town’s 7 best buildings announced
At a reception held in Cape Town on Tuesday the 8 October 2013, the seven winners of the Cape Institute for Architecture (CIA) Awards were announced. According to the CIA Awards Programme, the awards...
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Designing African Cities: Urban Planning Education In Nigeria
By Prof Vanessa Watson and Prof Babatunde Agbola In June 2011, the Governor of Osun State inaugurated a 10 man Committee for the state Urban Renewal Programme. The Committee of which I was the...
View ArticleWatch: What will South Africa look like by 2030?
Given the past twenty years of democracy, many in South Africa are asking: what will come next? How will the country continue to grow and develop in an inclusive way, especially in the face of...
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No. 1 Best City to Live in: Melbourne
Source: wikipedia.org Every city in the world has its own distinct personality and has successfully or unsuccessfully developed systems that have formed from the natural patterns of its inhabitants to...
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No. 1 Worst City to Live In: Damascus
Source: wikimedia.org Each city constantly faces the challenge of creating the capacity and infrastructure that will enable the efficient operation of all its functions from energy use to...
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Top 20 articles of 2014
The top 20 according to our readers Future Cape Town counts down the most-read articles of 2014. These articles had the most traction with our readers this year and were shared widely across social...
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Public Lecture: Alfredo Brillembourg and Luyanda Mpahlwa
Future Cape Town and the YOUNG URBANISTS community invites you to the event ‘Housing and educating the future’ with public lectures by Alfredo Brillembourg of Urban-Think Tank and Luyanda Mpahlwa of...
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Future Cape Town hosts international architects
CAPE TOWN, 13 MAY 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On Wednesday 13 May, Future Cape Town, and its Young Urbanists members hosted two internationally renowned architects; Alfredo Brillembourg of Urban-Think...
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FUTURE CAPE TOWN | What if we converted Olympic venues into schools?
“Can temporary venues offer more than a cost-saving exercise?” It is not enough to build temporary Olympic stadia and arena to lower the costs of mega-events . Rio de Janeiro is going one step further...
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The future of Salt River: architecture students investigate research...
“Students produced urban strategies to improve issues of inclusive sustainable design and promote future development” The third year students of the school of architecture at the University of Cape...
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