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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"District six"”.
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CPUT & District Six - Bridging the Gap
… on and contrasting historical and contemporary District Six, this thesis aims to uncover relevant and innovative ways of integrating the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) to the District Six community by means of alterations and additions in order to bridge the gap between its past …
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An urban school for District Six
Why an urban school for District Six? The inspiration for this thesis was stimulated by various factors, the roots of which stem from the first term of 1965, when I was involved in a Redevelopment Scheme for District Six. As a student of Architecture, this exercise had a profound affect on me. It …
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Touch taste hear smell see remember : District Six
My interest lies in the evocation of emotion through the sensory experience of architecture. I believe this is linked to issues of memory and spirituality, both dealing with an essence of other - a sense of presence or life that makes one aware that one is not alone in that space but is rather …
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Reading restitution in District Six: law, discourse and 'governmentality'
… of the statutory land restitution process in District Six, Cape Town, during the period from 1996 to 2012. Utilizing French philosopher Michel Foucault's theorisation of 'discourse' and 'governmentality', it traces the interweaving of restitution's legislative concepts with heterogeneous …
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Digital reconstruction of District Six architecture from archival photographs
… a strategy for reconstructing instances of District Six Architecture from small sets of old. uncalibrated photographs that are located in the District Six Museum photographic archive. Our reconstruction strategy comprises two major parts. First, we implement a geometry reconstruction …
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English and Afrikaans in District Six : a sociolinguistic study
… the use of English and Afrikaans in Cape Town's District Six - a large inner-city neighbourhood, first settled in the 1840s and, by the implementation of a series of laws, depopulated and almost entirely razed during the 1970s. Each language has a history of having been both a lingua franca and a …
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Identity : a study of representation with reference to District Six
Racism is a phenomenon of inferiority. Our blackness is a phenomenon of pride. We are not out to hate Whites. We are out to treat them simply as people. The point, however, is that we can no longer care whether or not Whites understand us. What we do care about is understanding ourselves and, in …
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The Doctor of District Six: exploring the private and family history of Dr Abdullah Abdurahman, City Councillor for District Six of Cape Town (1904-1940)
Abdullah Abdurahman is best-known in South African historiography for his four-decade career as the first coloured City Councillor of Cape Town and the President of the African Political Organisation. However, most literature on Abdurahman lack study on the personal and intimate life that animated …
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[re] Build. [re] Fabrication of District Six: Weaving Heritage Narratives with Future Development
… of mine due to my family's rich heritage in District Six. All my life I have been told stories of what seemed like a magical, utopian dream space. A place that seemed too good to be true, where neighbors were family and loyalty was stronger than money. A Utopia where the sense of Ubuntu, “I …
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On the Periphery: a place of transition on the East City and the redevelopment of District Six
… removals had divided the dynamic community of District Six and its link to the city centre. The structure of the document begins with the spatial experience of the city ‘edge', having no lived experience of the community, one can only feel the disparity of an once abstraction of place to its …
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Race, housing and town planning in Cape Town, c.1920-1940 : with special reference to District Six
… be provided for the separate racial groups. District Six is shown to have been one of the most overcrowded, poverty-stricken and neglected areas in the city, and quite naturally occupies a leading role in the thesis. The effects of the Slums Act No. 53 of 1934 on District Six is emphasised: …
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The development of counter-surveying as a methodology to document forced removals: case studies of District Six and Die Vlakte
… The research centres on ex-residents of District Six and Die Vlakte as they revisit the locations where their former homes once stood. It highlights the danger of oversimplifying the complex ordeals faced by a group and the erasure of individual experiences. The analysis of interviews …
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Deciphering spaces of and for participation: The subversion of community participation and rights in the urban land restitution process of District Six
… looks at why the restitution of land in District Six has been slow and fraught with frustrations and delays. This dissertation assess the participatory planning processes in the restitution and redevelopment of land in order to gain nuanced and deeper understanding of why, the state's …
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Renaissance and revenants in an emerging global city: discourses of heritage and urban design in Cape Town's District One and District Six, 2002-2014
… relation to the exhumation of human remains at District One and the restitution of land at District Six. Using as its methodology a combination of embedded ethnographic research, qualitative indepth interviews, desktop and archival research, and a form of embodied research, the thesis points to …
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The influences on the two inner city housing projects of the Bo Kaap and District Six in Cape Town that were built between 1938 and 1944
… inner city housing projects in the Bo Kaap and District Six that were built after the introduciton of the Slums Act of 1943, between 1938 and 1944. During this period there there were changes in the hegemonic perceptions of the city. The eradication of slums served as a catalyst for spatial …
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Inherited memories : performing the archive
… the way in which words, memories, and images of District Six are mediated and performed in an attempt to memorialised a destroyed urban landscape. It expands the borders of 'performance' to include oral (re)constructions of place by ex-residents, which in turn opens a space for a reflective …
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We have lost one another
… or self- determined as belonging to contemporary District Six in Cape Town, South Africa; a site of ongoing loss through settler colonialism, forced removals and now restitution. In this pivotal time of return bodies and land once displaced reunite, this study focusses on the fissure between …
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Res clamant - the land cries out: a practical study of the communicative and visual potential of a large-scale mural painting situated within a defined historical and cultural context
The place District Six was located centrally in the 'mother city,' Cape Town. Once the most integrated of our cities, it became through the implementation of the Group Areas Act the site of the greatest number of population removals in the country. 'Spatial apartheid' changed its face and the lives …
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William Colmer and the Politics of the New Deal Labor Legislation 1933-1940
… was due in part to the south Mississippi district he represented. District Six was Mississippi's melting pot and contained the largest labor force and the most diverse industries in the state. Also, the presence of organized labor set District Six apart from other Mississippi congressional …
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An investigation of teacher-student interactions during standardized testing in elementary school classrooms
… toward the MAT6. From a Virgin Islands school district, six regular classroom fifth-grade teachers were randomly selected from three similar schools for classroom observation while they administered the MAT6 in October 1992. A total of 29 of the district's fifth-grade teachers responded to a …
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