Urban design in action: the City of Cape Town's Dignified Places Programme – implementation of new public spaces towards integration and urban regeneration in South Africa

Southworth, Barbara

doi:10.1057/palgrave.udi.9000097

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“…D Southworth (2003) Urban design in action: The City of Cape Town's Dignified Places Programme -Implementation of new public spaces towards integration and urban regeneration in South Africa D Inam (2002) Meaningful 2011Analyzing urban layouts -can high density be achieved with good living conditions? G Ford (2008) World Cities and Global Change: Observations on Monumentality in Urban Design H Furuseth (1997) Neotraditional planning: A new strategy for building neighborhoods?…”

Section: Discussão E Considerações Finaismentioning

confidence: 99%

Planejamento e desenho urbanos: uma conciliação possível?

Montrezor

Bernardini

2019

urbe, Rev. Bras. Gest. Urbana

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Resumo As cidades vivem um momento de revalorização do desenho urbano, ainda que, em geral, continuem a enfrentar desafios transcendentes à constituição meramente física. Mas, então, o que está sendo pensado para tornar a cidade mais acolhedora e viva em relação ao seu desenho? A recente revisão do Plano Diretor Estratégico (PDE) e da Lei de Parcelamento, Uso e Ocupação do Solo (LPUOS) do município de São Paulo aparentemente converge para possíveis soluções abordadas na literatura do campo disciplinar do desenho urbano desde sua consolidação, na década de 1960. A pesquisa propõe elucidar, portanto, como se dá a relação entre a literatura científica e o que está sendo proposto por essas normas. Para isso, foram realizados estudos documentais das normas, revisão bibliográfica relacionada ao tema e ainda revisão sistemática da literatura (RSL) para o levantamento da produção científica no campo do desenho urbano. Os resultados revelam que há uma tendência de crescente valorização da escala do pedestre no processo de planejamento urbano, com ênfase na correlação entre uso do solo, mobilidade urbana e valorização da dimensão humana da cidade e que isso, de certa forma, reflete nas propostas apresentadas pelas normas recentemente instituídas em São Paulo.

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Section: Discussão E Considerações Finaismentioning

confidence: 99%

Planejamento e desenho urbanos: uma conciliação possível?

Montrezor

Bernardini

2019

urbe, Rev. Bras. Gest. Urbana

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“…There is the notion that Urban Design is only for 'luxury projects' and upmarket areas. With a few exceptions such as on the Cape Flats, there has generally been a lack of focus in poorer communities, not recognising the need to invest and re-make the public environment in these areas (Southworth, 2003;Schaug, 2003). This has often been linked to many local authorities who maintain that there is a limited budget for Urban Design projects, especially in poorer communities.…”

Section: Reconsidering the Role And Relevance Of Urban Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Incidental great public spaces and the role of urban design in South Africa

Schoulund¹,

Landman²

2018

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Urban Design in South Africa as a formal profession has a relatively short history. However, in practice, there have been many examples of what must be considered both good and bad Urban Design. There have also been numerous debates at universities and conferences on what Urban Design should be. However, in the constant making and re-making of urban and rural space, Urban Design has a tenuous and weak presence. This article interrogates the rather low profile of Urban Design in the country and why it is not growing or better positioned compared to other countries. This is done through a discussion of three cases that illustrate the often incidental making of great public spaces in contrast to the thoroughly planned approach. The article argues that spontaneous projects of high quality, rather than over-planned projects, where shortcomings result from this preoccupation to rationalise, often have a greater potential to strengthen the role and value of Urban Design. Such an approach would favour incremental, flexible and sensitive proposals and interventions where spontaneity and adaptation are recognised and celebrated, as well as support the notion that urban design should set a framework for many role players to respond to in shaping the city.

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“…23 The redistribution of public spaces and the acupuncture approach concentrated a great amount of interventions in township or periphery areas. "Five principles have consistently guided the planning, design and implementation of the programme.…”

Section: Municipal Policies and Innovative Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%