Browsing Conference Papers and Presentations (African Perspectives) by Issue Date

Browsing Conference Papers and Presentations (African Perspectives) by Issue Date

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  • Between land and water : elements for a city centre 
    Vio, G.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    The water of Venice protects the city, sets the boundaries, and connects the city to the sea. The same importance can be given to water in many urban cultures around Africa.
  • Recentering the city : an anthropology of secondary cities in Africa 
    De Boeck, F.; Cassiman, A; Van Wolputte, S.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    This text summarises an ongoing research project about small cities which are usually not included in the research agenda on global cities. We aim at bridging between research focused on global or world cities and that on ...
  • Territories in motion : from Cotonou, an audiovisual approach for an Africa perspective on city centre futures 
    Coralli, M.; Palumbo, M.A.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    This text summarizes an ongoing research project focussing on how to understand African city evolution in a globalized context. We aim to redefine the approach of understanding a diversity of changes. This project intends to ...
  • Agency in an African city : the various trajectories through time and space of the public market 
    Beeckmans, L.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    Kinshasa, the former Léopoldville, developed in less than one century from a few pre-colonial settlements into a metropolis of almost ten million people. In the city, the marketplace has always been at the centre of ...
  • Garden city settlements : the littering effects of urban design policy in Lusaka 
    Gantner, G.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    The history and resulting contemporary form of the Zambian capital of Lusaka presents a condition particularly relevant to urban designers and policy-makers. One of the few cities in the subregion to have grown almost ...
  • Working on cities : an experience from Kumasi, Ghana 
    African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Sirron-Kakpor, I.; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    The "Working on Cities studio" is a joint project by the Academy of Architecture Rotterdam, the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana.
  • Front matter, African Perspectives Conference Proceedings, 2009 
    African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
  • 'Cities without slums'? Global architectures of power and the African city 
    Jones, B.G.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    This paper provides a critical examination of the current international urban agenda for African cities, with a particular focus on the Cities Alliance discourse of ‘Cities Without Slums’ and UN-Habitat’s ‘Slum Upgrading ...
  • African cities : towards a new paradigm - 'chameleonic' urbanism for hybrid cities 
    Viana, D.L.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    African cities demand growing a network-type articulation between their formal centres and the vast, informal polymorphic suburban housing areas surrounding them. A new urban paradigm should be proclaimed: urban proposals ...
  • Conference themes, African Perspectives Conference Proceedings, 2009 
    African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
  • A search for specificity : learning from Africa 
    Ogbu, L.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    As we seek to position ourselves within this new century, the notion of defining an African urban architecture is both complex and compelling. Contemporary African cities are dynamic environments that have an ongoing ...
  • The urban market : social and spatial configurations in the African city 
    Gantner, G.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    In an era that is luring African cities toward a global constellation of mega-cities, the urbanization of traditional aspects of society, such as the marketplace, provide an identity to local commerce not found in many ...
  • Anatomy of exclusion in an African city : on ambivalence 
    Githua, B.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    This paper draws on psychoanalytic concepts of incipient boundary formation to theorize the ambivalent nature of exclusionary socio-political practices in urban sub Saharan Africa, applying this to an analysis of the Mũngĩkĩ ...
  • UniverCity-centre : the university as an anchor and its capacity foe democratizing urban space 
    Newton, C.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    The capitalistic growth of the City of Cape Town, more specifically its expansion to the north, foreshadows the absorption of Bellville and its surroundings, including the Campus of the University of the Western ...
  • Back matter, African Perspectives Conference Proceedings, 2009 
    African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
  • Ile lfe : a cultural phenomenon in the Throes of transformation 
    Osasona, C.O.; Ogunshakin, L.O.; Jiboye, D.A.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    Every city has its own history which expresses an identity, a symbol and an image. The ancient city of Ile-Ife, in south-western Nigeria, presents several paradoxes. Till date, its significance vis-à-vis the totality of ...
  • Ethical positions in built environment education 
    Olweney, M.R.O.; Olweney, C.L.M.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    Architecture has among its goals, to ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of society. It is therefore inevitable that ethical decisions are made in the process making architecture. The perceived value of the product, ...
  • Urban interventions : approach to urban regeneration in South Africa since 1994 
    Hansen, L.C.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    The discussion on our urban challenges are in part more reflections based on a body of work concluded in Johannesburg and Pretoria over the last 15 years. The paper will attempt to provide a partial representation of the ...
  • Refereed papers by theme, African Perspectives Conference Proceedings, 2009 
    African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
  • Planned and unplanned towns in former Portuguese colonies in Sub-Sahara Africa : an analysis of Silveira's 'Iconografia' 
    Matos, M.C.; Ramos, T.B.; Costa, L.P.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    Luis Silveira’s ‘Ensaio de Iconografia das Cidades Portuguesas do Ultramar’, published in the 50’s, is a fundamental source for the study of urban form in former Portuguese colonies. This is an often cited work and its ...