The porous city as a model for urban renewal

dc.contributor.authorMare, Estelle Alma
dc.date.accessioned2009-05-27T06:27:17Z
dc.date.available2009-05-27T06:27:17Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractIn 1924 Walter Benjamin and Asja Lacis described the environs and architecture of Naples as “porous”, explaining that its built environment resists any fixed or designated functionality. Their description reminds one of the Vitruvian directions for a stage design of the city in both the “comic” and the “tragic” modes, as depicted by Luciano Laurana. Benjamin and Lacis also applied the metaphor of porousness to the Zulu kraal. Porousness is furthermore exemplified by the Oriental bazaar. On the basis of these examples it is proposed that, on a modest scale, this concept could become a model for urban renewal in post-apartheid South Africa.en_US
dc.description.abstractWalter Benjamin en Asja Lacis het in 1924 die omgewing en argitektuur van Napels as “poreus” beskryf, waarmee hulle bedoel het dat die beboude omgewing weerstand bied teen enige vaste of toegewysde funksionaliteit. Hulle beskrywing roep die Vitruviaanse voorskrif vir ’n toneelontwerp van ’n stad in sowel die “komiese” as die “tragiese” modus in gedagte, soos deur Luciano Laurana afgebeeld. Benjamin en Lacis het ook die metafoor van poreusheid op die Zoeloekraal toegepas. Poreusheid is ook die uitmuntende kenmerk van die Oosterse basaar. Op grond van hierdie voorbeelde word voorgestel dat hierdie konsep op ’n beskeie skaal ’n model vir stedelike vernuwing in post-apartheid Suid-Afrika kan word.afr
dc.identifier.citationMaré, EA 2008, 'The porous city as a model for urban renewal', South African Journal of Art History, vol. 23, no.1, pp. 203-213. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_sajah.html]en_US
dc.identifier.issn0258-3542
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/10156
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherArt Historical Work Group of South Africaen_US
dc.rightsArt Historical Work Group of South Africaen_US
dc.subjectComic modeen_US
dc.subjectTragic modeen_US
dc.subjectBenjamin, Walteren_US
dc.subjectPorous cityen_US
dc.subjectAfrican kraalen_US
dc.subjectOriental bazaaren_US
dc.subjectPost-apartheid cityen_US
dc.subjectLacis, Asjaen_US
dc.subjectNaplesen
dc.subjectZulu kraalen
dc.subjectPorousnessen
dc.subject.lcshBenjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Criticism and interpretationen
dc.subject.lcshLācis, Anna, 1891- -- Criticism and interpretationen
dc.subject.lcshUrban renewalen
dc.subject.lcshPorosityen
dc.subject.lcshPost-apartheid era -- South Africaen
dc.titleThe porous city as a model for urban renewalen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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