I`m desperatly looking for info and maps showing urban/city planning regarding Capetown. I`m studying the third year in an architecture school in Stockholm. The link to the cityplanning project at the top of the page is only giving an “Error”-message…? Can you help me?

my favorite post was probably the mini-bus one, for obvious reasons. by the way, when austin and i were driving through rural south africa for 12 hours at a time (many stories to tell involving an attempted bribe after being pulled over and a night check point looking for pork meat), we saw a ton of mini-buses out there too! and i’m talking there are no cities or even towns for hundreds of miles…just goats, cows, and hitch-hikers crossing the road. some of them were just as pimped out as the ones in cape town too.

I talked about the global urbanization in this post: A Global Turning Point — in particular the surprising trend in traffic crashes. Very shortly, the number of human years lost from road-crash death and disability will be greater than years lost from any of the communicable or infectious diseases. Losses from road crashes will be greater than all war-related injuries and casualties.

Also, there is a difference between slums and squatter cities. The term “slums” refers to the environmental aspects of an area, while “squatter settlements” refers to the legality of the land ownership and other infrastructure provision.