The Airbnb’fication of Cape Town
AirBnb is making the idea of a liveable, walkable city unattainable, while deepening inequality and decimating local industries.
AirBnb is making the idea of a liveable, walkable city unattainable, while deepening inequality and decimating local industries.
The film 'No Place But Here' uses VR or 360 media to immerse a viewer inside a housing occupation in Cape Town. In the process, it wants to challenge gentrification and the capitalist logic of home ownership.
David Adjaye’s plans to 'revitalize' Hallmark House in downtown Johannesburg, raises ethical questions about the city's development plans.
This practice in some media of making white people who live in mostly black inner city Johannesburg, out as special. No.
Nicholas Eppel's photographs of a working class woman's home life in central Cape Town doubles as a chronicle of the city's gentrification.
Johannesburg: the city where criminals don’t discriminate, but property developers do.
What it means to belong in post-apartheid urban space and how to reckon with history.
Parts of Johannesburg's inner city has been subjected to aggressive gentrification. It also comes with lots of mindless media.