CapeTown

Cape Town

Bousselami Messelleka NoéTerreau Valentin

4. Plans for the future

3. Present's challenges

2. The past of CapeTwon

1. Introduction

Index

Introduction

CapeTown:

-Legislative capital of South Africa-Second-largest city, after Johannesburg-3 740 026 citizens

The past of CapeTwon

Creation of Cape Town and her start as a colony

• Discovered in 1488 by Bartolomeu Dias
• Became a colony in 1691, Composed of 1400 people including 400 slaves
• Passed under Dutch control in 1699.

• The new governor William van der Stel begins to monopolize commercial contracts, which causes a beginning of revolt in the population of free citizens and the first national reprisals

• The two first groups were given advantages in terms of space and public places, the whites being the most privileged.

Cape Town under British control 1795-1961

• Passed under British control following the capitaluation of the Dutch against the French in the Netherlands.
• In 1901, a municipal decree gives for the first time to black population of cape town an exclusive and mandatory district as a residence: the district of Nbadenie.

• In 1948, the victory of the national party in the general elections south african leads to the establishment of apartheid in south africa.
• This policy of segregation implies a distinction of the southern African, separating the white and metis on one side and the black on the other

The independence of South Africa and Cape Town

• In 1961, South Africa officially becomes a republic and leaves the British Commonwealth, so Cape Town lost its colonial status

• From 1976 the laws of apartheid are no longer strictly applied, public places begin to open up to all.

Present's challenges

1) Racism

- Righting past wrongs- Ash the innovation of productivity- Bad name because of the press

II) Climate change

- Water crisis- Drought- Heat wave-Strong storms

1II) Crime and violence

- Fighting gangs- Important corruption

Plans for the future

Cape Town City Park Competition

- Protecting natural areas- Improving ecological infrastructures- Creating new city park

I) Improve access to natural ressources

- New city scale- Improving the workplace- Creating new office space

Zero2One Project

II) Creat more great people spaces

- Creating more modern, more resilient infrastructures - Improving the new technologies

Cullinan Square Project

IV) Modernizing the city

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