Desire Lines

Space, Memory and Identity in the Post-Apartheid City

Edited by Noëleen Murray, Nick Shepherd, Martin Hall

Series: Architext 

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Part 1: Planning Fictions 1. Planning Fictions: The Limits of Spatial Engineering and Governance in a Cape Flats Ghetto 2. 'Manenberg Avenue is Where it's Happening' 3. Remaking Modernism: South African Architecture In and Out of Time 4. Engaging with Difference: Understanding the Limits of Multiculturalism in Planning in the South African Context 5. Missing in Khayelitsha Part 2: Sites of Memory and Identity 6. Memory, Nation Building and the Post-Apartheid City: The Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg 7. Picturing Cape Town 8. Memory and the Politics of History in the District Six Museum 9. A Second Life: Heritage, Museums, Mimesis and the Tour Guides of Robben Island 10. Social Institutions as 'Places of Memory' and 'Places to Remember': The Case of the Ottery School of Industries 11. Living in the Past: Historic Futures in Double Time Part 3: Burial Sites 12. On a Knife-Edge or in the Fray: Managing Heritage Sites in a Vibrant Democracy 13. Leaving the City: Gender, Pastoral Power and the Discourse of Development in the Eastern Cape 14. The World Below: Post-Apartheid, Urban Imaginaries and the Bones of the Prestwich Street Dead Part 4: Transit Spaces 15. Transit Spaces: Picturing Urban Change 16. Paths of Nostalgia and Desire through Heritage Destinations at the Cape of Good Hope 17. Museums on Cape Town's Township Tours 18. Public Reflections 19. A Renaissance on our Doorsteps

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