Abstract
Even though it has been 20 years since the apartheid was officially lifted, Cape Town is still the symbolic capital city of segregation.
This paper is based on texts published in M. Provoost (ed.), Cape Town. Densification as a cure for a segregated city, NAi010 Publishers, Rotterdam 2015. Density Syndicate is a project by the International New Town Institute and African Center for Cities, supported by Creative Industries Fund NL and Netherlands Enterprise Agency. Lotus Park section of the project was contributed by VPUU, Land+Civilization Compositions, Doepel Strijkers, CORC, John Spiropoulos Solutions, City of Cape Town, Jakupa Architects and Urban Designers, University of Cape Town.
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UN-Habitat [2010] State of the World’s Cities 2010/2011: Bridging the Urban Divide. Nairobi.
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Mbembe, A. Nuttall, S. [2004] Writing the World from an African Metropolis. Public Culture, 16 [3], 347–372.
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Appadurai, A. [2002] Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizion of Politics. Public Culture, 14 [1] 21–47.
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The “Cities Without Slums” action plan was developed by the Cities Alliance in July 1999 and launched by Nelson Mandela at the inaugural meeting of the Cities Alliance in Berlin in December 1999: http://www.citiesalliance.org/cws-action-plan.
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The N2 Gateway is a national government-led priority project involving the building of fully subsidized, rental, and affordable bonded homes to create sustainable communities in designated precincts along the N2 highway: http://www.thehda.co.za/content/page/n2-gateway.
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M. Provoost (ed.), Cape Town. Densification as a cure for a segregated city, NAi010 Publishers, Rotterdam 2015.
UN-Habitat, State of the World’s Cities 2010/2011: Bridging the Urban Divide, Nairobi 2010.
Mbembe, A., Nuttall, S., Writing the World from an African Metropolis. Public Culture, 16 [3], 2004.
Appadurai, A., Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizion of Politics. Public Culture, 14 [1], 2002.
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Bedir, M., Provoost, M. (2017). The Density Syndicate in Cape Town: The Case of Lotus Park. In: Abouelfadl, H., ElKerdany, D., Wessling, C. (eds) Revitalizing City Districts. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46289-9_11
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