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Living in Mamelodi.

Rechten: Alle rechten voorbehouden

Living in Mamelodi.

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The following questions are answered in this report.
Main question
-How do you come to recognisable and sustainable controlled areas with high quality and enough facilities for the people? The main question is answered by answering the background and key questions. In the following answers to these questions you will find the answer to the main question.
Background questions
-What is a recognisable area? An area in which the inhabitants feel at home and an area with which they can identify. For outsiders the area will be easy to drive through because the road patterns and the orientation is good.
-What is a controlled area? An area where the land is defined and no illegal building takes place. The houses in a controlled area have toilets, running water and electricity. People build on the defined land , for that reason.
Key questions
-How do you make an area recognisable? The most important thing about recognisable areas is that they must be recognisable for the people who live there. They must be able to identify themselves with the area. Keeping the area small, 500 inhabitants and 300 meters across, will create a community. Enough green spaces in the area will make the people feel comfortable and they can relax and have recreation close to their houses. By keeping most traffic out of the area a nice and peaceful neighbourhood will be created. -How do you make and keep an area controlled? How to make an area controlled is a very difficult question. If you look at the illegal settlements it is impossible to get control back over these areas without very drastic measures. With a good street pattern and defined land you can keep an area controlled. When the neighbourhood looks good and the people are proud to be living there, they will feel responsible for their neighbourhood. -How can we make a better, more sustainable city plan and what should this plan look like? A city plan that will still be good after 20 years is sustainable. So the plan must be flexible. Enough facilities to cover the area to cover the compound neighbourhood will be self sufficient.
-How can we make a street pattern with clear hierarchy? In the current situation the traffic stays in the area too long. This is caused by a lot of dead end streets and a road pattern without any clarity. In the new situation all the passing traffic is lead around the area by a ring road. A secondary road goes through the area and most neighbourhoods will be accessible from this road. This road also gives access to the main roads. Within the neighbourhoods the street pattern is clear. They are easy to drive trough. What is tried with street pattern is to create neighbourhoods which are not isolated, but really feel like a neighbourhood.
-What is the best location for a market street within the compound neighbourhood? If you look for a place which lies in the centre of the compound neighbourhood, which is easily accessible and has enough open space to create a centre, there is only one place where the centre can be located. That place is the Hector Peterson Street, because the questions above are located over there. In the current situation there are already some shops located there and during the interviews the name Hector Peterson kept coming up. This indicates that the street is one of the main streets in the area and that people think that the Hector Peterson Street the best place is for a market street in the surrounding area.
-How to make an attractive market street? You can make the market street attractive by making all the designs of the shop buildings in the same architectural way by putting all the facilities together and including trees and benches in the street. Similar areas exist in different market streets all over the world, for example 'Hoog Catherijne-Vredenbrug' in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
-How can we make a market street which is safe for the pedestrians? To make a market street which is safe for pedestrians you don't allow traffic into your street and put a lot of police in the market street and the surrounding area to control crime and robbery.
-What is the best design for a shop in a market street? About a best design of a shop in the market street you can say that there isn't a best design. Because everyone who will design shops for that particular market street will make an other design for the shop buildings. But while the designer is making a design of a shop building he has to think of a few preconditions in order assure that a shop look like a shop. Procedure The research has been done by taking in-depth interviews with inhabitants of the research area and Mamelodi-experts. Also literature review has been done. The process was controlled by our coach from the "Hogeschool van Utrecht"

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OrganisatieHogeschool Utrecht
OpleidingBouwkunde
AfdelingGebouwde Omgeving
PartnerTshwane University of Technology Pretoria, South Afrika
Jaar2005
TypeBachelor
TaalEngels

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