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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Woodstock, Cape Town"”.
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Enabling 'just' forms of regeneration in Woodstock, Cape Town
… neighbourhoods. The inner-city neighbourhood of Woodstock in Cape Town appears to reflect this problem through private sector development that results in the increase of property prices to the detriment of low-income residents. Research indicates that a large proportion of Woodstock residents …
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Reclaiming the spatial imaginary: a photovoice study of resistance to displacement in Woodstock, Cape Town
… and demands well-located affordable housing in Cape Town through protest, education, and occupation. This study investigated how RTC activists experience and resist their displacement from the gentrifying suburb of Woodstock in Cape Town. Using a critical psychological framework, data from …
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Building resilience: a pancultural practice exploring cultures, memory & amp; modernism through hybrid and liminal condition
… identity. The Old Castle Brewery complex in Woodstock, Cape Town offers a viable site for this exploration which involves theories of isolation and integration, hybridity, and the rhizome. A connection is made between the author's Iranian Islamic culture of origin and the site through …
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The prospect of providing low-income medium density housing in developing countries : problems and opportunities with special reference to Cape Town, South Africa
… a housing development is Springfield Terrace Woodstock, Cape Town. This pilot project, demonstrating how the provision oflow-income medium-density housing (in the fonn of three- to four-storey walk-up blocks of flats) can be provided in central Cape Town and how these benefit from the existing …
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Neurosis - Continuum [ Architecture As Urban Therapy ]
… the absurdity of spaces which exist within Woodstock, Cape Town. The project draws a psychological connection between the site and its absurdities, implying that spatial absurdity is the effect of problems of the personified "sitemind". By visualizing what are called "neurosis spaces" the …
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Building the spectacle : breaking the wall : project for a civic sports precinct at Trafalgar Park, Cape Town
… sports precinct at Trafalgar Park and Baths in Woodstock, Cape Town. I chose this site for it concealed a hidden narrative in the city. The ruin of an 18th century Dutch defence system in the park was a catalyst for the investigation. Creating a civic recreational space in this guarded public …
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Solid Grounding / Framing Movement: extending community opportunity in an urban park. Raw vs refined
… after hours' life of school children in Woodstock, Cape Town, chosen to actively involve and integrate the community with the park. The year began with a group investigation into a section cut through Cape Town. Starting at Devils Peak, moving down through District 6 and Woodstock, ending …
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Re-Presencing Woodstock Gasworks: Remediation and re-imagination of an industrial landscape
… that was to be extended in the contemporary landscape, it was about a wasted piece of post-industrial land that was intended to be programmatically re-imagined to redefine our relationship with infrastructure. The second part and final outcome is a building proposal. Its function has been formed …
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Transitional housing as an inclusionary planning intervention: The pickwick transitional housing project
… and places of employment. At least 75% of Cape Town's households continue to be excluded from accessing centrally located municipal services (Ndifuna Ukwazi, 2021), whilst ongoing evictions and displacements of hundreds of families from inner-city neighbourhoods culminate in “a systemic …
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An evaluation of a pilot community-based, interdisciplinary, primary health care teaching programme for health sciences students
… health sciences students, at the University of Cape Town. The pilot programme was located in the Neighbourhood Old Age Homes project (NOAH) in Woodstock, Cape Town. The research took place in 1997, the year of implementation of the programme. The evaluation focused on the perceptions and …
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“During the pandemic, the sense of Ubuntu was fantastic”: a participatory research study commemorating community mobilisation
… participatory research and it was conducted in Cape Town, South Africa, with members of the Woodstock Community Action Network. Data were collected virtually from seven participants through an online meeting (n=1), one-to-one interviews (n=7), online workshops (n=5), and a focus group (n=1) from …