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How gated communities keep insiders in, outsiders out, and leave the national project on the back foot.
Posts Tagged 'quality of life'
This Week on Metropolist: No Space for Waste
Going green is everywhere. We try to eat organic foods,to save electricity, to cycle or walk instead of drive, all in an attempt to reduce our carbon footprint. Perhaps with all this talk on “re-use,reduce,recycle”, we’re even feeling a bit of Green fatigue at the moment.
Measuring the liveability of cities
By Joe Peach at This Big City. In recent years, cities have solidified their importance on a global scale, and
Cities and quality of life: Our next #CityTalk
Our next #CityTalk tackles the concept of “quality of life” looking at some of the most famous rankings and surveys.
Kickstarting the night-time economy of our cities
Streets are the most important of public places, yet Cape Town’s central city streets become void of life after dark. First Thursdays, the monthly event where art galleries and stores in the CBD stay open late, aims to change that by working with existing infrastructure.
If Cape Town made Monocle’s liveable cities list
Every year Monocle magazine publishes its list of 25 most liveable cities. How does Cape Town compare to the this year’s top 25?