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Mother bird, Hovering over the city : space, spirituality & a community-based urban praxis
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/66383 Mother bird, Hovering over the city : space, spirituality & a community-based urban praxis Oranje, Mark De Beer, Stephanus Francois UCTD Spirituality Berea-Burgers Park Contextual-narrative Liberationist Praxis-approach Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-11 SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-16 SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-17 SDG-17: Partnerships for the goals Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2017. In his thesis, Mother bird hovering over the city: space, spirituality and a community-based urban praxis, the promovendus adopted a trans-disciplinary, praxis-approach to consider participatory, critical and liberationist planning and city-building processes. His journey was about the soul of the city, embodied in its spaces and its people. It reflected on unfolding urban spaces, tracing dynamics in the Berea-Burgers Park neighbourhood of Tshwane’s inner city between 1993 and 2016. The narratives emerging from this neighbourhood was brought into conversation with a range of other narratives, hoping to discern and propose a vision for a community-based urban praxis. The journey originated from a deliberate option for the city’s most vulnerable people, hoping to contribute towards a city characterised by radical forms of inclusion, sustainability and justice. It recognised that space is not neutral and spatial constructs are shaped by deep value frameworks that are prejudiced, exclusive and oppressive, or equalising, inclusive, and life-affirming. What the promovendus sought to discern and outline was a spirituality that can infuse planning praxis and spatial thinking: making spaces that will mediate dignity, justice and well-being. Part I of the study considered a new epistemology, identity and methodology, expressed in the metaphor of “becoming like children”, requiring a new selfunderstanding for those involved in planning, city-building or place-making, but also amongst urban citizens and vulnerable urban dwellers: to reclaim their own voice and agency in processes of city-making. In Part II of the study, after describing and deconstructing urban spaces and discourses in a contextual-narrative way, a spirituality and ethic of urban space are developed. It argues for a radical shift from planning as bureaucracy and technocracy, to planning as immersed, participatory artistry: opening up to the “genius” or (S)pirit of space – the Mother bird – hovering over urban spaces, responsive to urban cries, of humans and earth alike, and inviting us to be co-constructors of new and surprising spaces, mending and making whole. BS2025 Town and Regional Planning PhD Unrestricted SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions SDG-17: Partnerships for the goals 2018-08-30T09:02:49Z 2018-08-30T09:02:49Z 2018 2017 Thesis De Beer, SF 2017, Mother bird, Hovering over the city : space, spirituality & a community-based urban praxis, PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/66383> A2018 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/66383 en © 2018 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 University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Spirituality Berea-Burgers Park Contextual-narrative Liberationist Praxis-approach Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-11 SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-16 SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-17 SDG-17: Partnerships for the goals Mother bird, Hovering over the city : space, spirituality & a community-based urban praxis |
| title | Mother bird, Hovering over the city : space, spirituality & a community-based urban praxis |
| title_full | Mother bird, Hovering over the city : space, spirituality & a community-based urban praxis |
| title_fullStr | Mother bird, Hovering over the city : space, spirituality & a community-based urban praxis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mother bird, Hovering over the city : space, spirituality & a community-based urban praxis |
| title_short | Mother bird, Hovering over the city : space, spirituality & a community-based urban praxis |
| title_sort | mother bird hovering over the city space spirituality a community based urban praxis |
| topic | UCTD Spirituality Berea-Burgers Park Contextual-narrative Liberationist Praxis-approach Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-11 SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-16 SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-17 SDG-17: Partnerships for the goals |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/66383 |