Retreat
Cape Town
Metropolitan Population:
3,740,026
Metropolitan Area:
2,454 km2
Informal Settlements in Metropolitan Area:
13,6% of the population
Philippi
(location of initiative)
Population:
200,603
Population Density:
4,182 people per km2
Human Development Index (HDI):
0,71 (Cape Flats average)
Unemployment Rate:
38%
Informal Settlements:
56% of the population
Source:
CENSUS 2011, STATISTICS SOUTH AFRICA.
www.statssa.gov.za
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We have invited Edwin Heathcote, architecture and design critic of the Finantial Times, to write about the urbanxchanger experience.
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Based in Retreat, the organisation concerns itself with ‘upcycling people, spaces and objects’.
Cape Town
The Table Structure is an Enabler for Self-empowerment: once people understand the concept of making permanent homes for themselves where they live, the permutations are endless, and the potential limitless.
Cape Town
Hands of Honour is based in Retreat, a low-income suburb on the eastern border of the Cape Flats
Cape Town
Lindsay Bush, an architect and researcher from Durban, was the local coordinator for urbanxchanger Cape Town and draws her notes on that process.
Cape Town
