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Spatial connections and disconnections: A critique on the conceptualisation of Tshwane (2000 to 2004)
This article had its origins in an interest with the disjuncture between the way peoplethink things are and should be, and the way things ‘really are’. Pursuing this notion tookplace with an appreciation of the inventive role that language can play in exploring andreporting on these different worlds. The article explores some of the emerging meanings,representations, understandings and visualisations of the rapidly-changing urban conditionin the 21st century with particular reference to South Africa. The particular case in point, theCity of Tshwane, is contextualised and expounded upon by making use of post-modernwritings on the contemporary urban condition, urban planning thought and personalinterpretations/signage of the local spatial scenery. In a personal re-interpretation of thespatial conditions of the city, i.e. the ‘spaces of recognition’, an open dialogue is enteredinto with the prevailing ‘spaces of reflection’, i.e. planners’ documentary portrayals of thecurrent ‘spatialities’ and their views and wishes for a better future. Through employing adeconstructive mode of reading the mounting disjuncture, tension and irony in and betweenthe recognisable urban reality and the conceptualised spatial scenery is revealed.The primary argument put forward in the article resonates around planners’ stubbornpersistence to hang onto outdated and inappropriate language to make sense of andrespond to the world in which they live/function. The authors subsequently argue a case fora far more vivid, fluid, responsive and innovative planning vocabulary, and discourse. In theprocess they suggest that it is not only the lack of new words/ideas that is of concern, butalso the limiting effect that the lack of ’new words/concepts’ have on what planners cansee and are willing to see and navigate into existence.
Spatial connections and disconnections: A critique on the conceptualisation of Tshwane (2000 to 2004)
This article had its origins in an interest with the disjuncture between the way peoplethink things are and should be, and the way things ‘really are’. Pursuing this notion tookplace with an appreciation of the inventive role that language can play in exploring andreporting on these different worlds. The article explores some of the emerging meanings,representations, understandings and visualisations of the rapidly-changing urban conditionin the 21st century with particular reference to South Africa. The particular case in point, theCity of Tshwane, is contextualised and expounded upon by making use of post-modernwritings on the contemporary urban condition, urban planning thought and personalinterpretations/signage of the local spatial scenery. In a personal re-interpretation of thespatial conditions of the city, i.e. the ‘spaces of recognition’, an open dialogue is enteredinto with the prevailing ‘spaces of reflection’, i.e. planners’ documentary portrayals of thecurrent ‘spatialities’ and their views and wishes for a better future. Through employing adeconstructive mode of reading the mounting disjuncture, tension and irony in and betweenthe recognisable urban reality and the conceptualised spatial scenery is revealed.The primary argument put forward in the article resonates around planners’ stubbornpersistence to hang onto outdated and inappropriate language to make sense of andrespond to the world in which they live/function. The authors subsequently argue a case fora far more vivid, fluid, responsive and innovative planning vocabulary, and discourse. In theprocess they suggest that it is not only the lack of new words/ideas that is of concern, butalso the limiting effect that the lack of ’new words/concepts’ have on what planners cansee and are willing to see and navigate into existence.
Spatial connections and disconnections: A critique on the conceptualisation of Tshwane (2000 to 2004)
Serfontein, Kestell (author) / Oranje, Mark (author)
2007-11-30
Town and Regional Planning; Vol. 52 (2007); 20-31 ; 2415-0495 ; 1012-280X
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
720
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