Enabling a Trading Community: A Re-imagination of Trade in Lusaka, Zambia

dc.contributor.advisorPapanicolaou, Stiliani
dc.contributor.authorJackman, Nicole
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-04T13:55:34Z
dc.date.available2024-07-04T13:55:34Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.date.updated2024-07-03T13:30:46Z
dc.description.abstractEmbedded into Lusaka's urban fabric lies a network of informal traders. The everyday life in the Zambian city is tightly woven with permanent and impermanent trading practices. Traders experience challenges such as long-distance daily commutes, seasonal flash flooding and city cleanups which disrupt their livelihoods. These experiences and related research shape the dissertation's intention to explore ways architecture enables trading and living in a city of trade. The existing vibrant life within the informal setting is self-built, showcasing a strong sense of making. Borrowing from the manner of making in the context inspires the exploration of adaptable architecture that ignites social resilience in a trading context. The strategic implementation of adaptable architecture enables the user's sense of agency and aims to support the present and future everyday life of Kamwala. The intention is for the user to tactically assemble their spaces to their needs. -initiating agency which is better fitted to the context than contemporary architecture that is precisive and permanent.
dc.identifier.apacitationJackman, N. (2024). <i>Enabling a Trading Community: A Re-imagination of Trade in Lusaka, Zambia</i>. (). ,Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment ,School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/40311en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationJackman, Nicole. <i>"Enabling a Trading Community: A Re-imagination of Trade in Lusaka, Zambia."</i> ., ,Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment ,School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, 2024. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/40311en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationJackman, N. 2024. Enabling a Trading Community: A Re-imagination of Trade in Lusaka, Zambia. . ,Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment ,School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/40311en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Jackman, Nicole AB - Embedded into Lusaka's urban fabric lies a network of informal traders. The everyday life in the Zambian city is tightly woven with permanent and impermanent trading practices. Traders experience challenges such as long-distance daily commutes, seasonal flash flooding and city cleanups which disrupt their livelihoods. These experiences and related research shape the dissertation's intention to explore ways architecture enables trading and living in a city of trade. The existing vibrant life within the informal setting is self-built, showcasing a strong sense of making. Borrowing from the manner of making in the context inspires the exploration of adaptable architecture that ignites social resilience in a trading context. The strategic implementation of adaptable architecture enables the user's sense of agency and aims to support the present and future everyday life of Kamwala. The intention is for the user to tactically assemble their spaces to their needs. -initiating agency which is better fitted to the context than contemporary architecture that is precisive and permanent. DA - 2024 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Architecture, Planning and Geomatics LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2024 T1 - Enabling a Trading Community: A Re-imagination of Trade in Lusaka, Zambia TI - Enabling a Trading Community: A Re-imagination of Trade in Lusaka, Zambia UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/40311 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/40311
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationJackman N. Enabling a Trading Community: A Re-imagination of Trade in Lusaka, Zambia. []. ,Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment ,School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, 2024 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/40311en_ZA
dc.language.rfc3066Eng
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
dc.subjectArchitecture, Planning and Geomatics
dc.titleEnabling a Trading Community: A Re-imagination of Trade in Lusaka, Zambia
dc.typeThesis / Dissertation
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
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