- Title
- The 'dark' city : critical interventions in urban despair
- Creator
- Johnson, Harold
- Subject
- Urban renewal - South Africa - Johannesburg, Architecture and society - South Africa - Johannesburg, Inner cities - South Africa - Johannesburg
- Date
- 2015-11-02
- Type
- Thesis
- Identifier
- uj:14513
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10210/15035
- Description
- M.Tech. (Architecture), This research interest stems from observing at close range (and researching historically) a seemingly impermeable cycle of occupation, violence and abandonment within the inner-city, whose roots stretch back over the past 130 years 1. The cycle has culminated in the 'writing off' of a number of inner-city buildings as 'bad buildings' not fit for habitation or study. This dissertation is both an architectural response and a research inquiry into how design, in its broadest sense, might contribute to an inner city 'vertical settlement' ...
- Contributor
- Lokko, L., Prof. ; Krige, L. ; Opper, A.
- Rights
- University of Johannesburg
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