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Conference Papers and Presentations (African Perspectives): Recent submissions

  • 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'.
  • 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 ...
  • Stretching social structures : adapt the urban compound to present living 
    Waijer, P.; Van der Heijde, A.; Afrianti, D.; Siek, T.; Martha, D.; Amugi, D.; Opoku, B.; Mensah, D.A.; Agyiri, E.G.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    Adapting the urban compound house to present living. This paper consists of building plans and drawings.
  • 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.
  • 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 ...
  • Narrating urban acupuncture[s] 
    Muller, B.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    Cities like Accra or Kinshasa, Kumasi or Kisangani, can – despite all large-scale transformations – still be characterized by the presence of small-scale appropriations of urban space. These ‘points’ / ’waypoints’ ...
  • Modernism vs capitalism in the city of red sand and black gold : contemporary paradoxes in Luanda, Angola 
    Moreira, P.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    Anglo suffered from armed conflicts for four decades. During this period, the territory had been "forcibly urbanised." In fact, an estimated sixty percent of the population is now living in cities. These informal settlements ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Sub-center commerce corridor 
    Kakpor, I.S.; Jansen, R.; Van Dijk, S.; Razali, M.; Hosale, L.C.; Putra, I.N.G.M.; Odarley, H.N.; Asiedu, E.; Asaber, E.F.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    Vision: A vibrant sub-center that supports the potential for all people to develop adequate housing and business opportunities, regardless of their income levels. Mission: Transform the main street of Ayiga into a Corridor ...
  • '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 ...
  • Xilunguine, Lourenco, Marques, Maputo - structure and agency in urban form : past, present and future 
    Jenkins, P.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    This paper initially briefly reviews different approaches to urban studies in African urban areas as an introduction to the intention in establishing a link between an understanding of the social significance of the city ...
  • The royal trees : the true garden city ; an ecologically sound city for the present & future generations 
    Imhoff, H.J.; Jorristma, J.; De Groot, J.; Nercua, C.P.C.; Plazza, A.; Rwigamba, V.; Twum-Barimah, M.; Ankrah, R.; Sory, DS.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    Kumasi, the true garden city.
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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.
  • Working on cities : an experience from Kumasi, Ghana a design studio for architects and urban management students 
    Geurts, E.H.M.; African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)
    This paper describes the process of a studio and research project called ‘Working on Cities’ (WOC) by students from the Academy of Architecture and of the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies in Rotterdam, ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Front matter, African Perspectives Conference Proceedings, 2009 
    African Perspectives Conference Proceedings; Bakker, Karel A. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 2010)