Revitalisation of Baixa’s historic core through the contextual re-invention of Rua De Bagamoyo as a night-life precinct

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University of Pretoria

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This dissertation investigates to use and increase existing vibrancy to revitalize an urban environment. The urban response is to consolidate existing functions within Rua De Bagamoyo, as a night- life precinct through the introduction of gaming as an extension of the existing night- life activity. The architectural response is to focus on a building that houses a casino and facility for prostitutes that challenges the private-public relationships of place by extending the street into the built form and the form into the street through a series of threshold spaces that explore the notions of visual and physical access.

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Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2011.

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Space, Feminine, Casino, Brothel, Mozambique, Maputo, Prostitution, Palimpsest, Urban threshold, Gaming, Gambling, Acupuncture, Genius loci, Spirit of place, Heritage, Sex worker, UCTD

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Casson, JJ 2011, Revitalisation of Baixa’s historic core through the contextual re-invention of Rua De Bagamoyo as a night-life precinct, MArch(Prof) dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23482>