Browsing Faculty of Arts by Subject "Urban landscape"

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    • Changing urbanscapes: Colonial and postcolonial monuments in Windhoek 

      Becker, Heike (Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2018)
      This article investigates how recently-constructed sites that anchor memories of anti-colonial resistance and national liberation have changed the urban landscape of the Namibian capital, Windhoek. The discussion is ...

    • Community as utopia: Reflections on De Waterkant 

      Rink, Bradley M. (Springer, 2008)
      This paper will reflect on research currently in progress in Cape Town's De Waterkant neighbourhood—an area also known as Cape Town's 'gay village'. This paper engages the literature of utopia as a framework of analysis ...

    • Performing cities: Engaging the high-tech flâneur 

      Rodríguez, Karen; Rink, Bradley M. (The Forum on Education Abroad, 2011)
      The city as place forms the backdrop to many study abroad experiences. Our sense of place, however, is often fractured by modern mobilities. As Sack (1988) notes, we move from place to place so much that places often begin ...