Book Review: Rogue Urbanism
A repost of my book review of Rogue Urbanism for FutureCapeTown.com (read full article) and for Aerodrome (read full article). Rogue Urbanism […]
Urban Journalism
I care about cities and writing. My aim is to use the latter to make everyone care about the former. […]
Article: ‘Sprawl’, by Brett Petzer, in Platform Magazine (Cape Town, 2013)
In August 2013, I got wind of a new magazine addressing itself without delimitation to the city – and very […]
Building Africa’s 10 Cities of the Future (part I)
Read in full at TheSouthAfrican.com: “Africa is urbanising at a rate that will soon exceed that of any other region in the […]
Losing Farmland is Forever
An excerpt from an article I wrote for FutureCapeTown.com. Read the full article here. In Cape Town, the Philippi Horticultural […]
Ten ways South African architects are building the future
This article, written for (read in full at TheSouthAfrican.com) discusses ten visionary South African architects and their contributions to nation-building […]
Internet for all: SA towns’ race for free public wifi
This article (read in full at TheSouthAfrican.com) discusses the competition between major South African cities and towns to become the […]
Disconnection and connection in Cape Town
Main image: Bruce Sutherland An excerpt from a longer thinkpiece written by myself and Rashiq Fataar of FutureCapeTown.com. Read the full […]
What does Dubai mean to the people that live there? Part 2
An excerpt from a four-part series on Middle Eastern urbanism I wrote for FutureCapeTown.com during a family holiday in Jordan […]
What does Dubai mean to the people that live there? Part 1
An excerpt from a four-part series on Middle Eastern urbanism I wrote for FutureCapeTown.com during a family holiday in Jordan […]