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Cape Town

by Michelle Provoost

UrbanizationCity planning, africaArchitecture, south africaHistoryCity planningArchitecture

Cape Town suffers from extensive urban sprawl, due to the legacy of the Apartheid spatial policy and the middle class ideal of single-family homes on individual plots of land. This sprawl is causing huge economical, environmental and social problems. Can we envisage a more compact and dense Cape Town, curing the many engrained patterns of unequal and unjust spatial divisions?

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