Athlone in the early twentieth century - a precursor to working class housing on the Cape Flats, 1900-1930

Dumbrell, Kathy

Athlone in the early twentieth century - a precursor to working class housing on the Cape Flats, 1900-1930

Bachelor Thesis

1998

Publisher

University of Cape Town

Department

School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment

Abstract

The initial work for this project was a photographic survey of the existing wood and iron buildings in Athlone. I was at the time a volunteer in the Urban Conservation Unit of the Cape Town City Council (hereafter UCU). My task was to docment the existing wood-and-iron buidlings in order to aid later development control decision-making. to a large extent, it was the results of the fieldwork, which both uncovered a need for further research and directed later archival and textual research.