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Poetry of forgotten wastelands : transforming a wasteland in Salvokop into a designed enigmatic landscape
Dissertation (ML(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/25538 Poetry of forgotten wastelands : transforming a wasteland in Salvokop into a designed enigmatic landscape Prinsloo, Johan Nel gloriadimonte@hotmail.com Laubscher, Jacques Di Monte, Gloria Salvokop Wastelands Landscapes Spatial UCTD Dissertation (ML(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2012. This dissertation explores wastelands on two levels: an urban planning level and a poetic spatial level. As a real world problem, people move to suburbs (notably in the form of low density housing estates) in search of nature; as they move they destroy nature and contribute to the decay of urban form and fabric of the city. Due to the ensuing urban sprawl and other factors, cities are punctured with wastelands that lie abandoned, neglected and forgotten. On a planning level, this dissertation investigates if wastelands can become the healing tissue that a city needs to reverse urban decay of form and fabric. However, once identified for redevelopment or re-use, the intriguing enigmatic character and richness of wastelands are often ignored and erased in a process akin to gentrification - the sterilisation of wastelands results in ‘non-place’. Thus, on a spatial and experiential level, this dissertation explores the potential of wastelands to become enigmatic landscapes in reaction to the ‘non place’ of modernity. Wastelands in Pretoria are mapped in order to identify potential areas that can be re-imagined to serve a decaying city with open space, yet not be reduced to ‘non-place’ - a site in Salvokop is selected for the study. The design follows a hypothetical process that start with spatial explorations followed by planning considerations; not vice versa. Technical investigations test the validity of the proposed intervention and refine it. A portion of the site is resolved to a detailed sketch plan. Architecture unrestricted 2013-09-06T22:20:50Z 2012-06-18 2013-09-06T22:20:50Z 2012-04-25 2012 2012-06-14 Dissertation Di Monte, G 2011, Poetry of forgotten wastelands : transforming a wasteland in Salvokop into a designed enigmatic landscape, ML(Prof) dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25538> C12/4/83/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25538 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06142012-153521/ en © 2011, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Salvokop Wastelands Landscapes Spatial UCTD Poetry of forgotten wastelands : transforming a wasteland in Salvokop into a designed enigmatic landscape |
| title | Poetry of forgotten wastelands : transforming a wasteland in Salvokop into a designed enigmatic landscape |
| title_full | Poetry of forgotten wastelands : transforming a wasteland in Salvokop into a designed enigmatic landscape |
| title_fullStr | Poetry of forgotten wastelands : transforming a wasteland in Salvokop into a designed enigmatic landscape |
| title_full_unstemmed | Poetry of forgotten wastelands : transforming a wasteland in Salvokop into a designed enigmatic landscape |
| title_short | Poetry of forgotten wastelands : transforming a wasteland in Salvokop into a designed enigmatic landscape |
| title_sort | poetry of forgotten wastelands transforming a wasteland in salvokop into a designed enigmatic landscape |
| topic | Salvokop Wastelands Landscapes Spatial UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25538 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06142012-153521/ |