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Hout Bay: a developmental strategy

The Hout Bay Valley, surrounded by mountains and the Atlantic Ocean, is a unique ecological entity operating within the wider Metropolitan context of Cape Town. Sited as it is on the fringe of the expanding urban periphery of Cape Town, it is a beautiful legacy, a serious responsibility, an area of...

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Main Author: Bisset, Ronald
Other Authors: Dewar, Dave
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics 2020
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description The Hout Bay Valley, surrounded by mountains and the Atlantic Ocean, is a unique ecological entity operating within the wider Metropolitan context of Cape Town. Sited as it is on the fringe of the expanding urban periphery of Cape Town, it is a beautiful legacy, a serious responsibility, an area of challenge and opportunity, and an area threatened by an uncontrolled residential expansion and concomitant sub-division and exploitation of farmlands for ancillary urban related facilities, which factor is eroding, and threatening to destroy, the rustic environmental qualities of the Valley by an industrial expansion in the harbour enclave which could disturb the delicate balance within the Valley.
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spelling oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/31975 Hout Bay: a developmental strategy Bisset, Ronald Dewar, Dave Hout Bay The Hout Bay Valley, surrounded by mountains and the Atlantic Ocean, is a unique ecological entity operating within the wider Metropolitan context of Cape Town. Sited as it is on the fringe of the expanding urban periphery of Cape Town, it is a beautiful legacy, a serious responsibility, an area of challenge and opportunity, and an area threatened by an uncontrolled residential expansion and concomitant sub-division and exploitation of farmlands for ancillary urban related facilities, which factor is eroding, and threatening to destroy, the rustic environmental qualities of the Valley by an industrial expansion in the harbour enclave which could disturb the delicate balance within the Valley. 2020-05-22T16:39:05Z 2020-05-22T16:39:05Z 1976 2020-04-06T15:34:23Z Master Thesis Masters https://hdl.handle.net/11427/31975 eng application/pdf School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
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