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- Title
The ‘Silent’ Closure of Urban Public Space in Cape Town: 1975 to 2004.
- Authors
Spocter, Manfred
- Abstract
This study seeks to show that the closure of urban public space by residents in a South African context is not a recent phenomenon and that successful citizen-driven urban public space closures have been a feature of the urban landscape before the rise of gated communities and monitored urban public space. The primary objective of the study was to analyse and investigate spatio-temporal tendencies relating to the citizen-driven privatisation of urban public space in Cape Town. This objective would be driven by the creation of a comprehensive database of provincially gazetted urban land closures dating from 7 February 1975 to 17 December 2004 within one of the six municipal substructure regions of Cape Town. The secondary objective, but by no means less important, is an identification and analysis of the reasons forwarded, practices employed and techniques utilised by individual citizen-driven applications in two distinctly diverse residential suburbs within the study area.
- Subjects
CAPE Town (South Africa); SOUTH Africa; PUBLIC spaces; CITIES &; towns; METROPOLITAN areas; URBAN landscape architecture; LANDSCAPES; PRIVATIZATION; SUBURBS
- Publication
Urban Forum, 2007, Vol 18, Issue 3, p153
- ISSN
1015-3802
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12132-007-9009-2