Browsing by Author "Todeschini, Fabio"

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    Lessons from the Old City of Ahmedabad
    (2013) Dewar, David; Todeschini, Fabio
    A recent teaching and research collaboration between the School of Architecture, Urban Design, Planning and Geomatics of the University of Cape Town and the Programmes of Architecture, Planning and Urban Design at the Centre for Environment and Planning Technology (CEPT) in Ahmedabad, India, resulted in a comparative evaluation of two local areas in the old city of Ahmedabad and six local areas in Cape Town, in order to identify factors relating to spatial structure and form affecting their performance. 1 The observations reported here relate only to the old city of Ahmedabad which, it is argued, holds important lessons for contemporary urban design.
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    The Wynberg centre : an evaluation of its potential future within the metropolis of Cape Town
    (1977) Del Mistro, Romano Franco; Todeschini, Fabio
    This thesis was prompted by three major concerns. Firstly there is need for a structure of centres providing a wider range of facilities closer to home. Secondly, the Wynberg centre is slowly changing to become almost exclusively a shopping centre, and thirdly, the quality of the environment of the centre is also declining. The first aspect of the analysis was the establishment of what those qualities are that make a centre. Having examined the existing Wynberg centre structure and operation;and · the plans, mainly road schemes, presently proposed by the local authority it became apparent that with these influences the centre of Wynberg would definitely not develop into the centre which was needed. A further six alternatives were prepared to determine the possible future for Wynberg. In the first four alternatives, the involvement presently practiced by the local authority was considered to be a fix and the alternatives were mainly achieved by keeping or omitting one or both of the two road schemes to be built through Wynberg viz. the Wynberg ByPass and the Widening of the Main Road. The second set of alternatives was based on the premise that the Local Authority would become actively involved in the development of the centre, able to use economic and legal techniques to induce development in the direction of the goals. An economic and analysis was undertaken to give quantitive values to the alternatives.