Fighting the sprawl: restructuring the seam between the rural and urban landscapes through consolidation, integration and intensifcation in Cape Town
| dc.contributor.advisor | Ewing, Kathryn | |
| dc.contributor.author | Louw, Pieter | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-16T10:43:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-10-16T10:43:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2025-10-16T10:39:46Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The central theme of this research project is the relationship between humanity and the environment. Specifcally where this relationship is at its biggest confict, where settlements and open space meet, on the peripheries of cities. Traditionally, the settlement form of the Cape maintained a dynamic balance between the landscapes of society, wilderness, rural and urban. This balance was disrupted through Modernism and Apartheid planning which lead to segregated, fragmented and low-density urban landscapes. Through outdated planning policies, engineering standards and speculative development models, this balance is still increasingly disrupted, manifested in the form of lateral sprawl. The urban landscape, which is considered by the status-quo as the dynamic landscape, places growing pressure on the rural and wilderness landscapes. The need to restrict the lateral growth of cities is globally recognised and one unsuccessful tool utilised in the Greater Cape Town Metro to prevent urban sprawl, is the urban edge policy. This research project argues that a line that exists only on paper, such as an urban edge policy which promotes compaction, is not a suffcient mechanism to address urban sprawl. Compaction is only one aspect of mitigating sprawl. It argues that the edge is a landscape, not a line and explores the notion that a spatial proposition is necessary that consolidates and integrates the rural and urban interface zone and restructures the peripheral urban landscape. That this landscape could, through consolidation, integration and intensifcation, target and mitigate the drivers of sprawl | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Louw, P. (2025). <i>Fighting the sprawl: restructuring the seam between the rural and urban landscapes through consolidation, integration and intensifcation in Cape Town</i>. (). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment ,School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/42013 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Louw, Pieter. <i>"Fighting the sprawl: restructuring the seam between the rural and urban landscapes through consolidation, integration and intensifcation in Cape Town."</i> ., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment ,School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, 2025. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/42013 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Louw, P. 2025. Fighting the sprawl: restructuring the seam between the rural and urban landscapes through consolidation, integration and intensifcation in Cape Town. . University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment ,School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/42013 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Louw, Pieter AB - The central theme of this research project is the relationship between humanity and the environment. Specifcally where this relationship is at its biggest confict, where settlements and open space meet, on the peripheries of cities. Traditionally, the settlement form of the Cape maintained a dynamic balance between the landscapes of society, wilderness, rural and urban. This balance was disrupted through Modernism and Apartheid planning which lead to segregated, fragmented and low-density urban landscapes. Through outdated planning policies, engineering standards and speculative development models, this balance is still increasingly disrupted, manifested in the form of lateral sprawl. The urban landscape, which is considered by the status-quo as the dynamic landscape, places growing pressure on the rural and wilderness landscapes. The need to restrict the lateral growth of cities is globally recognised and one unsuccessful tool utilised in the Greater Cape Town Metro to prevent urban sprawl, is the urban edge policy. This research project argues that a line that exists only on paper, such as an urban edge policy which promotes compaction, is not a suffcient mechanism to address urban sprawl. Compaction is only one aspect of mitigating sprawl. It argues that the edge is a landscape, not a line and explores the notion that a spatial proposition is necessary that consolidates and integrates the rural and urban interface zone and restructures the peripheral urban landscape. That this landscape could, through consolidation, integration and intensifcation, target and mitigate the drivers of sprawl DA - 2025 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Rural KW - Urban KW - Landscape KW - Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2025 T1 - Fighting the sprawl: restructuring the seam between the rural and urban landscapes through consolidation, integration and intensifcation in Cape Town TI - Fighting the sprawl: restructuring the seam between the rural and urban landscapes through consolidation, integration and intensifcation in Cape Town UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/42013 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/42013 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Louw P. Fighting the sprawl: restructuring the seam between the rural and urban landscapes through consolidation, integration and intensifcation in Cape Town. []. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment ,School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, 2025 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/42013 | en_ZA |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.language.rfc3066 | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics | |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment | |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.subject | Rural | |
| dc.subject | Urban | |
| dc.subject | Landscape | |
| dc.subject | Cape Town | |
| dc.title | Fighting the sprawl: restructuring the seam between the rural and urban landscapes through consolidation, integration and intensifcation in Cape Town | |
| dc.type | Thesis / Dissertation | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Masters | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Masters |