The Urban Circle

The World can be a better place.... But how? Taking the debate beyond the political, beyond the theoretical into the real economy, into the physical and spatial dimension where cities, landscapes and livelihoods take form.

Saturday, December 26, 2015

Beyond Tolerance

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(This piece first appeared in The Herald on 24 December 2015) I don’t really give too much thought to the war in Syria. There’s just to...
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Monday, November 02, 2015

Help Little guy with Direct Action

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(This piece first appeared in the Weekend Post on 31 October 2015) I drive a 1997 Toyota. It has 476 000 kilometres on the clock. I dri...
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Friday, August 14, 2015

Drop the Mindless Controls

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(This piece first appeared in The Herald on 14 August 2015) I took a drive out to the countryside this morning. The rolling green pastu...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Taking the first Steps to Off Grid Living

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(This piece first appeared in The Herald on 24 March 2015) Load shedding makes us all angry. We are frustrated with Eskom. We are disil...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Are we there yet?

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(this piece first appeared in The Herald on 24 December 2014) Perhaps as you read this you have reached your holiday destination...
Monday, September 29, 2014

Who will champion PE’s ICC?

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(this piece first appeared my regularish column in the  The Herald  on 9 September 2014) I was fortunate to, last month, spend a we...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

ECIA Chair slates ‘too big to fail’ developments

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This piece appeared on the mype.co.za  website on 6 September 2014. It captures some of my views on the city and the profession at the  mom...
Monday, August 11, 2014

The Crisis in South African Cities within the context of the entrenched dysfunctional relationship between Urbanists in the Public, Private and Academic Sectors

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(This Paper was first presented on 5 August 2014 at the International Union of Architects - World Congress in Durban. - It was presented at...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

The End of Excellence?

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(This Piece first appeared in  The Herald  on 25 July 2014 and is based on a talk I gave at the Athenaeum that week) I have never visited...
Tuesday, July 08, 2014

UIA Conference - Durban 2014

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I have prepared a  paper  for the UIA Conference commencing 3 August 2014 in Durban. I post it here just in case anybody is reading it in th...
Saturday, May 24, 2014

Time to knuckle down to work and have a braai

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(This column first appeared in the Weekend Post n 24 May 2014 I was planning to write this column on Workers Day, but I was too busy w...
Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Look after what we have got.

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( I wrote this Column for the 9 April 2014 edition of Port Elizabeth's daily newspaper, "THE HERALD") It was a windy,...
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Saturday, December 14, 2013

Of Simplicity and Beauty

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So, it’s Christmas Eve. If you are reading this you have probably survived the malls and the shopping chaos. You have probably spent more m...
Monday, October 14, 2013

All that is “building” is not “Architecture”

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This column first appeared in the The Port Elizabeth Herald on 14 October 2013. Last week Monday, 1 October, was “World Architectur...
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