Abstract:
This project aims to discover the role of landscape
architecture in the conservation of landscapes in
2018.
The Magaliesberg mountain in The City Of Tshwane
is currently an active cultural landscape on an
urban edge. The survival of the area as a landscape
dwindles in light of its denial for conservation status
by city representatives. The fear is that the area,
which has historically fallen under disrepute due
to mass migration in the neighbouring towns, will
fall back into this state soon after the generation of
stakeholders upholding the sanctity of the mountain,
can no longer take up this role.
As time treads on, traditions evolve and programs
are added to the mountain — a new generation
must carry the cultural landscape. This dissertation
becomes an investigation into how the discipline
of landscape architecture can spatially contribute
to the continuation of culture and generational
engraving onto a cultural landscape but still aid in
the retention of sacredness on the mountain in this
city context.
