Bellville reborn exploring infrastructural transformation as a mechanism for designing  sustainable environments - the case for Bellville

Mills, Ruan

Bellville reborn exploring infrastructural transformation as a mechanism for designing sustainable environments - the case for Bellville

Thesis / Dissertation

2025

Publisher

University of Cape Town

Department

School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment

Abstract

It has been noted and widely documented over many years already that the rapid urbanization of cities, in particular cities located in the global south, poses a huge problem for such cities - specifically due to the lack of sufficient developable1 land that could accommodate the urbanization phenomenon. To this end, spatial planning (in it's various forms - i.e. town and regional planning, urban design and architecture) is seen as central to fixing the challenges which come about due to this rapid urbanization. Unfortunately in African cities, planning is often seen as a failure. One mechanism which forms an important component of a set of tools, generally used for planning cities, regions, towns and even neighbourhoods, is urban infrastructure. Infrastructure, is considered one of the most important ways in which organs of state and or government structures, work to materially shape urban environments. This research project seeks to investigate the possibility of using existing infrastructure in conjunction with developable land, as a means to respond positively to or maybe even reverse the disparity that infrastructure was required to create initially during the apartheid era

Keywords

Bellville

Sustainable environments

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