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To reimagine the integration of public transport with high-density neighbourhoods
Transport is the network that moves people between places. It provides a means of access and opportunity. Transport routes in Cape Town have become expansive due to urban sprawl. There is an unjust spatial economy due to modern and apartheid planning. Poorer urban residents live far away from places...
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| author | Terwin, Stephanie |
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| description | Transport is the network that moves people between places. It provides a means of access and opportunity. Transport routes in Cape Town have become expansive due to urban sprawl. There is an unjust spatial economy due to modern and apartheid planning. Poorer urban residents live far away from places of opportunity and are forced to travel long distances and spend a high percentage of their income on transport. Minibus taxis are the mode of transport best able to provide a flexible and on-demand service within this sprawling urban form. Public transport interchanges remain largely undeveloped and undesirable places. The concept of transit-oriented development (TOD) has the ability to transform these undesirable places into neighbourhoods of intensified mixed-use development, offering convenience, access and amenities to people who use the transport interchange or live nearby. The project involves the analysis of the transportation network in Delft, a rapidly transforming settlement 21 km from the inner city of Cape Town. Although the settlement is located far away from the historic city core, its main road follows an important desire line connecting Khayelitsha, a dense working-class neighbourhood and Belville, an important economic node. This has led to significant densification along Delft Main Road and people turning their homes into shops. Some 600 minibus taxis service the area because there is no high capacity train line or bus rapid transit (BRT) route. The project is sited within an important civic node in Delft and is well located to the R300, N2 and Symphony Way (regional roads). Taxis currently hover on the side of the street due to the people count in the area. The design is a public transport interchange and mixed-use - retail, residential and commercial - hub, which adopts transit-oriented development principles. The design proposal suggests an urban design framework that responds to the existing context, and a predicted idea of what the neighbourhood could become. lt aims to link the existing civic node to the new shopping mall development in a series of streets and active building edges. It responds to the life of the taxi by providing loading, holding, parking, servicing and washing areas. The taxi world evolves around the existing Caltex petrol station and Delft Main Road. The architecture responds to the current socio-economic context of Delft and how people currently inhabit space. The live-work unit provides flexibility for tenant and occupation mix, whilst contributing to the necessary density of the project. The dissertation explores how transportation can contribute to city building, economic activity and resi dential densification in an existing underserviced low-income suburb. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/22945 To reimagine the integration of public transport with high-density neighbourhoods Terwin, Stephanie Silverman, Melinda Isaacs, Fadly Louw, Mike Architecure and Planning Transport is the network that moves people between places. It provides a means of access and opportunity. Transport routes in Cape Town have become expansive due to urban sprawl. There is an unjust spatial economy due to modern and apartheid planning. Poorer urban residents live far away from places of opportunity and are forced to travel long distances and spend a high percentage of their income on transport. Minibus taxis are the mode of transport best able to provide a flexible and on-demand service within this sprawling urban form. Public transport interchanges remain largely undeveloped and undesirable places. The concept of transit-oriented development (TOD) has the ability to transform these undesirable places into neighbourhoods of intensified mixed-use development, offering convenience, access and amenities to people who use the transport interchange or live nearby. The project involves the analysis of the transportation network in Delft, a rapidly transforming settlement 21 km from the inner city of Cape Town. Although the settlement is located far away from the historic city core, its main road follows an important desire line connecting Khayelitsha, a dense working-class neighbourhood and Belville, an important economic node. This has led to significant densification along Delft Main Road and people turning their homes into shops. Some 600 minibus taxis service the area because there is no high capacity train line or bus rapid transit (BRT) route. The project is sited within an important civic node in Delft and is well located to the R300, N2 and Symphony Way (regional roads). Taxis currently hover on the side of the street due to the people count in the area. The design is a public transport interchange and mixed-use - retail, residential and commercial - hub, which adopts transit-oriented development principles. The design proposal suggests an urban design framework that responds to the existing context, and a predicted idea of what the neighbourhood could become. lt aims to link the existing civic node to the new shopping mall development in a series of streets and active building edges. It responds to the life of the taxi by providing loading, holding, parking, servicing and washing areas. The taxi world evolves around the existing Caltex petrol station and Delft Main Road. The architecture responds to the current socio-economic context of Delft and how people currently inhabit space. The live-work unit provides flexibility for tenant and occupation mix, whilst contributing to the necessary density of the project. The dissertation explores how transportation can contribute to city building, economic activity and resi dential densification in an existing underserviced low-income suburb. 2017-01-23T12:04:41Z 2017-01-23T12:04:41Z 2016 Master Thesis Masters MArch (Prof) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22945 eng application/pdf School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment University of Cape Town |
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| title | To reimagine the integration of public transport with high-density neighbourhoods |
| title_full | To reimagine the integration of public transport with high-density neighbourhoods |
| title_fullStr | To reimagine the integration of public transport with high-density neighbourhoods |
| title_full_unstemmed | To reimagine the integration of public transport with high-density neighbourhoods |
| title_short | To reimagine the integration of public transport with high-density neighbourhoods |
| title_sort | to reimagine the integration of public transport with high density neighbourhoods |
| topic | Architecure and Planning |
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