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Boundary changes, local political activism and the importance of the electoral ward : an electoral geography of Bristol 1996-1999Schuman, Andrew January 2000 (has links)
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Poll- otter architecture : For an urban environment sinking under layers of barriers : With focus on the boundary wall as an architectural medium to support the urban conditionBrecher, Emma January 2018 (has links)
The area of investigation for this study
falls within a small urban island called
Westbury.
Situated 7km to the West of Johannesburg’s
CBD, it is isolated from the adjacent urban
fabric as a result of its historical and
also recent development. Westbury itself
also consists of a series of fragmented
islands with undefined boundaries, weak
urban blocks and a disorientated grid.
The area has recently been identified as
a high priority region for densification1
by the city of Johannesburg, supported
by transport-oriented infra-structural
investment.
The questions raised by this study are
contextualized against this backdrop.
How could densification in Westbury be
achieved towards the creation of a more
inter-connected, cohesive, accessible and
therefore sustainable urban environment?
Following from this:
How could Westbury be better integrated
with the immediate surrounding urban fabric
whilst combating its own fragmentation?
What is the role of urban blocks and
boundary conditions to help shape a future
more integrated Westbury, and also towards
meaningful place-making?
In what ways can architecture contribute
in order to improve the urban fabric that
operates on various scales: from the very
scale of the house to that of an urban
boundary to that of the urban block and
ultimately the greater urban network?
The hypothesis outlined in this study is
that architecture is too weak to stand in
isolation, that a network of buildings is
necessary to achieve a more sustainable,
accessible, cohesive, and inter-connected
urban environment. This is tested through
a rigorous analysis of boundary conditions
at different scales as reflected in the
urban blocks of Westbury and the resultant
architectural strategies.
Finally, a block and its attendant
boundaries is singled out to test the
architectural contribution towards
densification of the suburb, the making of
place, and better inter-connectivity.
The process is envisaged as driven from
both the scale at which urban issues inform
the architecture, and the reverse scale the
architecture in Westbury informs the urban
master plan. The architecture in style and
scale sets the conditions for the proposed
urban blocks. The boundary wall being the
medium where urban meets architecture.
“For these dreams to flourish
in reality, we must recognise
that there can be no ready-made
solutions in housing, no recipes or / Mini Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2018. / Architecture / MArch (Prof) / Unrestricted
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Representation of Coloured identity in selected visual texts about Westbury, JohannesburgDannhauser, Phyllis D. 11 November 2008 (has links)
In post-apartheid South Africa, Coloured communities are engaged in
reconstructing identities and social histories. This study examines the
representation of community, identity, culture and historic memory in two
films about Westbury, Johannesburg, South Africa. The films are Westbury,
Plek van Hoop, a documentary, and Waiting for Valdez, a short fiction piece.
The ambiguous nature of Coloured identity, coupled with the absence of
recorded histories and unambiguous identification with collective cultural
codes, results in the representation of identity becoming contested and
marginal. Through constructing narratives of lived experience, hybrid
communities can challenge dominant stereotypes and subvert discourses of
otherness and difference. Analysis of the films reveals that the Coloured
community have reverted to stereotypical documentary forms in representing
their communal history. Although the documentary genre lays claim to the
representation of reality and authentic experience, documentary is not
always an effective vehicle for the representation of lived experience and
remembered history. Fiction can reinterpret memory by accessing the
emotional textures of past experiences in a more direct way.
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Architecture without Land : access to land, secured with land tenure as development strategy in critical neighbourhoods, in South AfricaLeibbrandt, Amy Elizabeth January 2018 (has links)
Architecture without Land postulates the role
of architecture without the promise of the
ownership of land. It investigates the provision of
land, secured with land tenure, as a development
strategy in critical neighbourhoods, specifi cally
Westbury, Johannesburg. It is situated within
the urban land question and opportunity of land,
characterised by continual redevelopment within
strict urban boundaries and multiplicity of use,
and addresses the fragments of apartheid city
planning, particularly the question of ownership
of land.
Title deeds are not always practical or
appropriate solutions. Fixed ownership could
stagnate the process of continual redevelopment
of land and hence of the social development in
a low income neighbourhood. The opportunity
of land tenure, as opposed to ownership, aids
fl exibility and appropriation by tenants including
the continual redevelopment of a site. Tenure of
land, allows the tenant organisation to expand,
insert or subtract their built manifestation
in relationship to their economic conditions,
reducing ineffi cient land use.
This approach responds to change in mainly two
ways; internal changeability (Architecture host to
change) and external changeability (Land host
to change). Land host to change; orders the
permanent (stable) built fabric, predetermining
structure, service and external space. Tenant
dependency on stable built fabric (architecture as
method) is articulated in a scale understanding
of facility and connection (service point). This
interaction is expressed in use of space, fi t-out,
infi ll and/or insert with the condition of easy
removal at end of use.
Access to land and space are vital to the project
as poverty is deeply spatial and ownership of
land intertwined with the legacy of apartheid.
This dissertation will focus on the appropriation
of land, tested with social infrastructure such
as early childhood development, mothers
training, shisa nyama, a medical unit supported
by affordable rental housing, hosted in a 66m
by 36m land parcel, supporting compact city
development and densifi cation in the suburb of
Westbury Johannesburg. / Mini Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2018. / Architecture / MArch (Prof) / Unrestricted
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Altered States: a youth centre & safe house for at-risk adolescents in Westbury, JohannesburgKridiotis,Joanne Alexandra January 2016 (has links)
Thesis (M.Arch. (Professional))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2016. / Drug abuse, particularly among younger generations, is
an issue of increasing concern in South Africa. According
to recent reports on global substance abuse, South
Africa was named as having some of the highest rates
of youth drug use in the world. This not only has dire impacts
for local communities and their youth, but has led
to increasing crime rates and unemployment in these
communities. One such community, plagued with youth
drug abuse and addiction, is Westbury, a former coloured
township in Western Johannesburg. Westbury has, in
turn, been selected as the focus area for this thesis due
to prevailing struggles with youth drug addiction, high
rates of drug-related crime and a community outcry
for a solution. This thesis aims to investigate a means
of alleviating degrees of drug use, and other risky youth
behaviours, by introducing an architectural intervention.
This intervention – defined as a Youth Centre and Safe
House – will attempt to address the search for identity
and meaning within the liminal state of adolescence,
and the often risky behaviours that arise as a result, by
providing a sense of ‘place’ and belonging for the ailing
youth.
With the main focus group being at-risk adolescents,
and in order to create an architecture that speaks of the
liminal state of adolescence, threshold and ‘the space
between’ become important design concepts. This
thesis attempts to investigate the movement between
distinct spaces, the experience of transition, and the
physical and psychological effects thereof. The resultant
design proposes an architecture of liminality, where
soft, implied thresholds and a celebration of ‘the space
between’ become the manner in which the liminal subject
can negotiate the built environment and establish a
sense of ‘place’ within it. / EM2017
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