Date: November 11th, 2009

The urban palimpsest: Part 2, gridding the vision

11 November, 2009 (14:17) | Cape Town, Formalization, MEEs, Networks, Saving Schemes, Slums, South Africa, Speculation | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
 
By: David A. Smith
 
As we saw yesterday, for fifteen years Joe Slovo had been an informal settlement in the Cape Flats that resisted all attempts at structural improvement.  One night, that all changed:
 
Joe Slovo, March 2009
 
(A large set of pictures is here, from which this post’s images are drawn.  My quotes [...]