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Reanimating a Comatose Goddess’: Reconfiguring Central Cape Town

verfasst von: Gordon Pirie

Erschienen in: Urban Forum | Ausgabe 3/2007

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Central Cape Town is no longer a tawdry, unsafe provincial enclave of day-time office workers, commuter shoppers and public administrators. After the decline since the 1980s due to suburban flight, a private–public partnership has improved the downtown’s state and image. Capitalising on spectacular heritage and location, property developers have been transforming work, residential and leisure spaces. Massive private investment in new and converted buildings, and in public space, is reconfiguring the old central business district (CBD) into a post-modern space of high-end production, service and consumption that is aestheticised, commoditised and historicised. Investors, young professionals, day visitors and tourists benefit more than the peripheral metropolitan majority. Despite inclusive rhetoric, the Africanisation of post-apartheid central Cape Town is less evident than its ‘glocalisation’.

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Titel: Reanimating a Comatose Goddess’: Reconfiguring Central Cape Town
verfasst von: Gordon Pirie
Publikationsdatum: 01.09.2007
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Urban Forum / Ausgabe 3/2007
Print ISSN: 1015-3802
Elektronische ISSN: 1874-6330
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-007-9012-7

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