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“With its infrastructures, services, and local systems of power, the urban level works as a relay station between the far order and everyday life. Urban space under capitalism thus has a double [...]

EXPLORATIONS IN URBAN DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE: MULTI-LAYERED, MIXED NEIGHBOURHOODS IN NEWTOWN, JOHANNESBURG “When is urban design architecture? When is architecture urban design?” Tariq Toffa [...]

Welcome to the second week of UJ_UNIT2 and the second assignment where we ask you to investigate the relationship between people, systems and infrastructure at neighbourhood level. Find the [...]

Dear Friends; So far, I’m thoroughly impressed with the direction UNIT 2 is taking and look forward to working with everyone in April even if only for a few weeks. Embedding architecture [...]

“Start where the system is. Have empathy with the system and the people in it, particularly as it will not like being ‘diagnosed’.” (Coghlan & Brannick, 2005)   Unit 2_A1_Neighborhood [...]

UNIT 2 STUDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO ENGAGE WITH THE UIA 2014 DURBAN STUDENT CHARTER ON ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION TO ALLOW THEM TO HELP SET THE AGENDA FOR A RELEVANT, INSPIRING AND CURRENT UNIT 2 [...]