Counter Currents: Experiments in Sustainability in the Cape Town Region

by Edgar Pieterse (Editor)

Although Cape Town enjoys its status as a tourist hot spot, this collection of articles by urban planners simultaneously praises the success of the city's bold new architecture while deploring the housing patterns that cause tension in an ecologically sensitive region.

272 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2010

About the author

Edgar Pieterse is Director of the African Centre for Cities and Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, both at the University of Cape Town. He is also a founding director of Isandla Institute; an urban policy think-tank where he continues to ply advocacy oriented research work.