Browsing Conference Papers and Presentations (African Perspectives) by Subject "Architecture"

Browsing Conference Papers and Presentations (African Perspectives) by Subject "Architecture"

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  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Ayigya works : creating opportunities for the self-employed women of Ayigya 
    Oosterwaal, A.; Limburg, R.; Tukker, E.; Mwinlanaah, Y.; Hidayah, S.; Angnayeli, E.J.; Woyome, A.M.; Azantilow, R.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    This project is for the improvement of living conditions of the people of Ayigya, by improving trading and services environment.
  • Back matter, African Perspectives Conference Proceedings, 2009 
    African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
  • 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.
  • '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 ...
  • The city centre : an introduction to the video entitled "Mapping Accra" 
    Addo, Joe; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    African urban dwellers have come to terms with density in a way that is not collective; giving rise to separate communities which are worlds on their own. Their residents living in a time scale of neither old nor new; ...
  • Coffeemanifesto : sampling instant and slow spaces in the African city 
    Le Roux, H.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    In the inner city of Johannesburg, Ethiopian traders and their landlords have occupied and redefined empty modernist buildings, creating a rich and dense urban market area. The fabric of the existing buildings and open ...
  • Conference themes, African Perspectives Conference Proceedings, 2009 
    African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
  • Diagnoses on Cairo city reflective analysis of Rameses Square 
    van Kats, R.H.C.; Musa, A.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    Cairo, a 20 million megapolis, is characterized by the absence of a logical urban design. For most people, chaos is the most characterizing element of the traffic situation in Cairo like Ramses Square, the busiest intersection ...
  • Economic heterogeneity and the return of the central city 
    Simone, A.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    Notions of the ‘central’ – as a dense core – have dominated the sense that urbanisation is replete with the possibilities of accessibility, concentration, efficiency, and productive power. The city was thought to culminate in ...
  • 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, ...
  • The evolution of the Kibuga into Kampala's city centre - analysis of the transformation of an African city 
    Nawangwe, B.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    The Kibuga was the capital of the Buganda Kingdom at the time the British declared a protectorate over this very well organised kingdom in 1900. The Kibuga comprised of the king’s palace at the centre of the settlement, ...
  • Front matter, African Perspectives Conference Proceedings, 2009 
    African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Imagining urban futures 
    Wolff, H.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    Within the time allowed for this presentation I can hardly address a balanced range of issues dealing with the ‘Future Life of the African City Centre’. I will introduce four topics that have been close to my heart that ...
  • The indigenous urban tissue of Addis Ababa - a city model for the future growth of African metropolis 
    Baumeister, J.; Knebel, N.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    The current rapid urbanization in Africa is an unprecedented phenomenon in the history of mankind, as urban growth is no longer linked to economic growth. With this "urbanization in poverty" a new way of urban life evolves ...
  • Learning from earth : an exploration and reinterpretation of vernacular building. 
    Martusewicz, C.; Cumberbatch, T.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    A poster presentation by Martusewicz, C. & Cumberbatch, T. about 'Learning from earth: An exploration and reinterpretation of vernacular building'.