African public spaces are complex, especially so against the backdrop of fast urbanising cities and increasing socio-economic volatility.
Public space in South Africa was, and in some instances still remains, a contentious issue due to apartheid spatial planning...Read more
Community participation has become a checklist item for any major urban development project. But what does community participation actually mean? What would it look like if we flipped the responsibility of engagement from citizens to...Read more
Can playing be used as a tool to reclaim cities for people; involving both children and adults in a process to re-inhabit public space? We can assert, yes, it can. The experience of “FLPP. Fronte...Read more
|Comment|author: TaMaLaCa - Interdisciplinary research group
The Vancouver-based urbanist, Jillian Glover, an advisor to the Canadian government who runs the ‘This City Life’ blog-site, has identified the ten features that she believes are the key to building child-friendly cities. Suggesting that,...Read more
