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Tshwane Urban Design Seminar

Tshwane Urban Design SeminarREMAKING CITIES OF THE FUTURE


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1. INTRODUCTIONIn the year 1800, a mere 2% of the world’s population resided inmetropolitan regions. Today, more than half of the world’s population resides in urban spaces with the UN predicting that 90% of all global population growth will occur in southern urban regions by 2030. At the beginning of the twentieth century, only sixteen cities – mainly located in industrialised economies – were home to a million people or more. Today, almost 400 cities contain this number or more and are mainly located in low and middle-income countries representative of the challenge confronting cities in the global south.

Over the next 30 years, most of the growth in the world’s population is expected to occur in the cities and towns of poor countries and by 2020, the developing world, as a whole, is likely to become more urban than rural. Sub-Saharan African households will grow by 107 percent by 2025, representing the largest growth in households within the McKinsey Global Institute’s (MGI) City600 and it is estimated that population growth in the region will contribute approximately 45 percent to the region’s GDP growth.

Cities as centres of economic activity that serve to connect the globaleconomy are increasingly experiencing economic and environmental pressures that are often related to demographic changes that take place. These take many forms relating to changing patterns of migration, climate change-relatedchallenges, exponentially growing infrastructure demand requirements,volatile fiscal envelopes and an increasing evolution of advancedtechnological systems. Cities need to possess the requisite levels ofcapacity to respond to these diverse challenges. South African cities, for example,confront these challenges within the context of the post-colonial and apartheid dispensations, whose historic systems of governance constrain seeminglylogical policy options. Rapid urbanisation, whilst a positive force capable of leading topositive economic and social outcomes, currently exacerbates these challenges.

These estimates must be localised as these opportunities will be accompanied by an 80 billion m3 increase in municipal water demand (MGI), among others. It is thus clear that, to effectively leverage these changes, our programme must begin in the current period as articulated within Tshwane’s Vision 2055. Indeed, our very own NDP Vision 2030 envisages that by 2030, 11 million more South Africans will inhabit cities. It is not simply about talking about these numbers but gearing all projects and plans within our cities towards this eventuality.

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The latest findings contained within the Gauteng City Region Observatory’s (GCRO) Quality of Life survey have placed Tshwane as the most liveable City within the Gauteng city-region and should be understood within the context of the changing city narrative across the globe driven by the geo-economicmegatrend of exponentially increasing urbanisation and migration. While this is indeed an accolade for the City of Tshwane, the City is of the opinion that this merely serves as yet another catalyst to effect greater change and accelerate service delivery and inclusive growth within the South Africa’s Capital City.

These projections and global megatrends result in the functional management of cities being increasingly complex; thereby requiring prudent planning that is guided by a comprehensive understanding of both the rapidly changing needs of city dwellers and their respective operational environments.

Planning and urban design requirements within this context requirecollaborative and multi-disciplinary processes, which shape the physical setting for life in cities, towns and villages. South Africa has a composition of cities that possess unique cultural and architectural qualities, however, the country as a whole is characterised by spatially fragmented, inequitable and inefficient spaceeconomies primarily resulting from the country’s past social system ofsegregation.

This largely manifests as demographic pressures, social inequality, socialexclusion, a gap with respect to affordable and suitable housing, andenvironmental problems across jurisdictions within the country. There is thus an urgent need for a holistic yet differentiated approach to urban design that will require a collaborative effort across government, industry and communities at large to advance spatial justice and economic transformation.

The Tshwane Urban Design Seminar is the first of a conversation seriesinitiated by the City of Tshwane. Its aim is to start to engage with challenges andopportunities within the cityscape in a glocalised manner aligned to the City’s aim of actively endeavouring to radically change the manner in which it thinks about planning, especially within the context of the emerging city-state.

The seminar aims to generate critical impressions on the kinds ofelements cities of the future need to be considering and planning for today toadvance and subsequently enshrine principles of social justice, spatialtransformation, liveability and safety – all towards the aim of actively transposing acity’svdevelopmental trajectory.


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The objective of the seminar is to clearly establish the nexus between today’s city challenges and opportunities and urban design and planning initiatives as mechanisms for efficiently and effectively positioning Tshwane as a resilient city of the future within the African continent.

In this regard, active engagement will be sought with respect to culturaldynamics and their direct impact on current spatial fragmentations as well as to deliberate upon ways to promote the innovative integration of existing urban space systems.

Given this backdrop, the City of Tshwane’s Urban Design Seminar under the theme: Remaking Cities of the Future, aims to bring together high-level urban thinkers, city shapers (architects, property developers, and city planners), local and national government and leaders in academia from South Africa and across the globe to debate effective and efficient approaches towards this objectiveusing South African and emerging market cities as a case study, with aparticular focus on the strategic trajectory of the City of Tshwane.


2. PANEL DISCUSSIONSThe Tshwane Urban Design Seminar is the first of a conversation seriesinitiated by the City of Tshwane. Its aim is to start to engage with challenges and opportunities within the cityscape in a glocalised manner. The City of Tshwane is actively endeavouring to radically change the manner in which it thinks about planning, especially within the context of the changing city narrative.

Each panel will also be expected to put forth its critical impression on the kinds of elements cities of the future need to be considering and planning fortoday to advance and subsequently, enshrine principles of social justice, spatialtransformation, liveability and safety – all towards the aim of activelytransposing a city’s developmental trajectory.

Panel 1: Rethinking our city construct – implications for South African cities

Facilitator: David Sislen, World BankPanel participants: Professor Alan Mabin, University of Pretoria Dr Michael Sutcliffe, City Insight

Objectives of Panel 1:

• What are the implications of the unprecedented rise of cities across the globe for South African cities from an urban governance perspective?

• How can South African cities begin to bring these ideas home in a practical manner?

• What can South African cities do to promote spatial transformation and spatial justice on a practical basis?

• What are the governance implications for South African cities in this regard?

• What needs to change within the South African city-construct to begin to realise these potential benefits?


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Panel 2: Transit oriented development (TOD) – initiatives, strategies and practicalities

Facilitator: Yakov Sergienko, McKinsey, RussiaPanel participants: Paul Hanger, Iyer Urban Design, South Africa Andrew Luke, GAPP Urban Design, South Africa Richard Matchett, WSP Engineers, South Africa Professor Mark Oranje, University of Pretoria


• How can South African cities begin to advance transit oriented development in a pragmatic manner within the context of the prevailing spatial distortions and disparities across South African cities?

• What can South African cities do to promote spatial transformation and spatial justice on a practical basis utilising the TOD sphere?

• Within the South African context, how can we begin to maximise public transportation usage?

• How can African cities begin utilising these programmes to transform the township economy?

• How can South African cities begin to apply property valuation solutions to the TOD sphere, especially in terms of assessing the contribution of transport infrastructure to the economy in general?

• Can TOD initiatives become a reality in South African cities in the near future? If so, what initiatives will be required?

Background:

Transit Oriented Development is underpinned within Tshwane Vision 2055 through the creation of liveable, safe and resilient cities and communities. The benefits of TOD are quite substantial with some highlighted below.• Transit investment is generally estimated to generate greater economic

benefit to a city than does highway investment.• TOD can enable a city to use market forces to increase densities near

transport stations, where most services are located, thus creating more efficient mini-city centres and minimising urban sprawl.

• TOD enables a city to be more corridor-oriented, enabling the ease of infrastructure provision.

• TOD is effectively able to enhance the overall economic efficiency of a city


TOD is also capable of contributing to the growing concerns related to climate change through the creation of dense, walkable communities connected toefficient transport lines and systems that visibly reduce the need for driving and the burning of fossil fuels.

It represents an exponentially fast growing trend and a core contributor tocreating vibrant and liveable cities making it possible to experience ahigher quality of life without complex interdependencies related to vehicularusage. The creation of compact, walkable communities centred on high qualitytransport systems remains to be a challenge in South Africa with someimprovements within the last few years.

The South African context is, however, unique with respect to theapartheid spatial and social divide created; a trend which local government inconjunction with the private sector and civil society needs to vehemently reverse as this inextricably and undeniably hinders inclusive economic development.Subsequently, the aim of this panel is to begin to practically develop ideas on how South African cities can advance transit oriented development.

Panel 3: Inner city revitalisation

Facilitator: Dr Graeme Gotz, Gauteng City Region ObservatoryPanel participants: Rashiq Fataar, Future Cape Town Sharon Lewis, Johannesburg Development Agency Dr Tanya Zack, University of the Witwatersrand


• What can South African cities do to promote spatial transformation and spatial justice within their inner cities, which often face degradation? How can this be achieved in a practical manner?

• How can we begin to leverage limited public spaces within South African cities in the inner city?

• What needs to change within the inner city urban ecology to begin to realise these benefits?

• How can we begin to create vibrant public spaces in the inner cores of township economies?


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Background:

As noted by former Executive Mayor of the City of Johannesburg, Amos Masondo, a city is like human beings: they are born, go through life and then eventually die (Masondo, undated). They will eventually need to be bought back to life so that they can reach their full potential, compete with other cities and become the ‘powerhouses’ which they were destined to be.

Cities across the world, experience a number of contemporary urban issues which include, but are not limited to: poverty, unemployment, insufficient provision of services, and the deteriorating condition of physical environments. In addition to this, some cities have gone through a period of stagnation and degeneration where they have experienced capital flight, as well as the greying of the inner city and local neighbourhoods. This created areas which were inaccessible, uninhabitable and unsafe, which did not present opportunities to its inhabitants or the benefits of urban living.

These issues are detrimental to its growth and development of cities. It hinders the ability for creativity and innovation to thrive as well as any prospects of being able to compete with other cities. When cities become competitive, they are able to compete with other cities as well as market themselves as spaces of wealth and accumulate money.

Rapid population growth is accompanied by even faster spatial expansion within cities, which may lead to low density development dominated by individual-vehicle transportation — a largely irreversible pattern. A developmental path for cities requires a city that is able to direct resources efficiently, an institutional environment that is able to drive its developmental trajectory and an effective civil society.

According to Kofi Annan as cited in the UN-Habitat (2003), 32% of the world’s population live in dilapidated inner-city buildings, the majority of which is found in the developing world. This is a result of waves of rural-urban migration in the developing world; we expect that this number has increased over the years. Rural-urban migration throughout South Africa has exerted pressure on social amenities and housing (Sommer and Parker, 2013; Lohnert, 2001); a situation which is an ongoing phenomenon.


In recent years, the locus of global poverty has been transferring to urban areas through a process termed ‘urbanisation of poverty’ with low cost areas such as inner-cities being the receiving pockets of most cities (Ibid). Such a phenomenon has driven the upper-middle and high income groups out of the inner-city.

Poter (1990) advocates that there are four advantages of inner city locations: their strategic locations; the local market demand that the areas themselves possess; possibilities of integration with regional job clusters; and an industri-ous labour force that is eager to work.

It is against this backdrop that revitalising South African inner cities would require an economic strategy to build viable businesses that can provide more efficient employment opportunities. Economic development in inner cities will come only from recognising the potential advantages of an inner-city location and building on the base of existing companies, while dealing frontally with the present disadvantages of inner cities as business locations.

Tshwane in its Vision 2055 envisages an integrated and sustainable inner city region that hinges on the promotion of densification and multimodal land use as embodied in the principles of new urbanism. There is a strong need to stress the increasing significance of cities especially in meeting the objectives of the National Development Plan (NDP) and a further narrow focus of meeting the outcomes of Tshwane Vision 2055, ie the promotion of economic, social and regional cohesion.

Panel 4: Leveraging city assets and public spaces

Facilitator: Guy Trangos, Gauteng City Region ObservatoryPanel participants: Monica Albonicco, AlboSack Metacity Architects Sue Bannister, City Insight Solam Mkhabela, University of the Witwatersrand Itumeleng Morule, MOAD


• What can South African cities do to promote spatial transformation and spatial justice through the optimal utilisation of their own assets? How can this be achieved in a practical manner?


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• Have such successes been witnessed on the African continent and/or within South Africa?

• How can South African cities begin to effectively and efficiently optimise their urban ecologies through optimising on the use of public space?

• How can these practical programmes begin to gain traction within South African townships?

• What is the role of local government in creating this environment?• What will need to change within South African cities to realise such

developments?

Background:

The proposed panel discussion is underpinned by the City of Tshwane’s strategic objectives as well as the Tshwane Vision 2055. Tshwane Vision 2055 advocates for the “remaking of the South African Capital City” and adopts “spatial quality” and new urbanism as central to spatial transformation. Spatial quality is concerned with improving the aesthetic and functional features of housing and the built environment to create livable, vibrant and valued places that allow for access and inclusion of all.

The overall aim of the panel is to deliberate upon ways in which South African cities can create a visually attractive environment and improved visual quality. Some of the following considerations may be relevant:

• The need to balance pedestrian needs with vehicular and non-motorised transport.

• Urban beautification and improvements can act as an investment catalyst and encourage private property upgrades and new developments.

• Optimising on the utilisation of public assets and leveraging on the vast spaces within a city’s urban ecology can serve as a planning mechanism for public sector projects, as well as to guide development conditions for the approval of private projects.

Different zones or districts of a city’s morphology will have varying streetscape atmospheres. It is important to distinguish these areas so that different urban beautification elements can be effectively applied. Generally, urban design frameworks will follow a particular urban morphology approach while adding a layer of beautification or scenic enhancement.


The future quality of life of the City of Tshwane’s communities will depend on the ability of all stakeholders (public, private, civil society and labour) to collaborate to improve the Capital City’s global competitiveness and accelerate inclusive growth. There is an urgent need to therefore identify and understand the major challenges and risks for South African municipalities in terms of altering their course of growth through informed policy decision-making.

As many national governments have decentralised and devolved their functions, the nature of urban management and governance is undergoing a fundamental transformation. Programmes of poverty alleviation, health, education and public services are increasingly within the sphere of municipal and regional governments. This creates the space for a new class of policymaker charged with these responsibilities. The plethora of changes occurring on a global scale are inexorably coercing countries – and indeed individual cities – to rethink and redefine their respective comparative advantages in order to increase their respective levels of significance on a global scale. Cities that have entered international markets, the majority of the time not solely driven by choice, are increasingly exposing their residents to risks and benefits that emanate from inhabiting a global village.


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CLLR KGOSIENTSO RAMOKGOPA Executive Mayor of Tshwane

Councillor Kgosientso Ramokgopa is the Executive Mayor of Tshwane and Chairperson of the African National Congress (ANC) in the Tshwane region. He also served as councillor for Ward 51 between 2000 and 2005.

He has also served in the South African Students’ Congress (SASCO) and the ANC Youth League at the University of Durban-Westville.

His qualifi cations include a BSc in Civil Engineering from the University of Durban-Westville, Master of Public Administration from the University ofPretoria, Master of Business Leadership from the University of SouthAfrica, and a Certifi cate in Executive Leadership from the University ofStellenbosch. He is currently writing his PhD thesis on local government fi nance at theUniversity of Pretoria.

He has extensive experience and served as the CEO of the MetropolitanTrading Company (MTC) – an entity of the City of Johannesburg – and of the Johannesburg Market, which is the largest fresh produce market in the world by volume. Cllr Ramokgopa is the Deputy Chairperson of the Board of Trade Investment in Limpopo.

He has been recognised for his sterling business leadership and has beenvoted the 2008 MTN Boss of the Year and the 2009 CEO of the Year(adjudicated by the Institute of People Management). He is also the 2010 Black Business Quarterly title bearer.

Growing up in Atteridgeville, he attended Seaparankwe Lower Primary School, proceeded to Patogeng Higher Primary School and fi nished at Hofmeyr High School.

“Live truthfully and you shall prevail against all adversity.”

3. SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES


CLLR SUBESH PILLAY City of Tshwane

Born in Marabastad, Councillor SubeshPillay has spent all his 38 years in Tshwane. Hecurrently serves as Member of the MayoralCommittee for Economic Development and Planning in the City of Tshwane, chairs the City’s Strategic LandDevelopment Tribunal, and serves as amember of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the South African Local Government Association(SALGA)

In 1995, Subesh became part of the fi rst group of democratically electedcouncillors in the Pretoria City Council and Greater Pretoria MetropolitanCouncil (GPMC). Between 1995 and 1999 he served in various capacities on the Council, including as a Party Whip, Member of the Executive Committee of the GPMC responsible for Finance and Audit, and also served on the Municipal Facilitation Committee (MFC) which prepared for the establishment of City of Tshwane (consisting of 13 previously standalone municipalities).

During the local government elections in 2000, he was re-elected to the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality and served as the ANC Whip for Finance from 2001 to 2003. In 2003 he was elected Chief Whip of the Majority Party, a position he held until March 2006.

Elected for a third term in 2006, Subesh was appointed by the Executive Mayor of Tshwane to serve as a Member of the Mayoral Committee. Initiallyresponsible for Roads and Stormwater, in October 2009 (after a re-shuffl ing of the Mayoral Committee) Subesh was given the responsibility of establishing a new Department of City Planning and Economic Development.

Following the local government elections in May 2011, Subesh was re-elected to a fourth term in Council, and continues to serve on the Mayoral Committee, heading the Economic Development and Planning portfolio.

He has in this time also served on various strategic committees. In 1999 he was appointed by the MEC for Local Government to serve on the Municipal Facilitation Committee (MFC), which managed the establishment of the City of Tshwane.


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JASON NGOBENI City Manager of Tshwane

Mr Jason Ngobeni is the new City Manager of the City of Tshwane. He is a torch-bearer for change and no stranger to Tshwane. Before his appointment as City Manager, Ngobeni was with the City of Johan-nesburg for almost a decade, fi rst as City Treasurer and then as Executive Director of Economic Devel-opment. While he was Executive Director of Eco-nomic Development, he led the implementation of the broadband network project, which will culminate in over 900 km of fi bre-optic cables throughout Johannesburg, bridging thedigital divide along racial lines and income levels.

Ngobeni also facilitated the recapitalisation of old and derelict buildings inJohannesburg in order to redevelop and revitalise the inner city. As CityTreasurer, he was instrumental in issuing the fi rst municipal bond to beissued by a South African local authority. He was also instrumental in raisingJohannesburg’s fi scal profi le by reducing debt cost and helping to raise the credit rating from BBB+ to A.

In 2004, he was one of the top three fi nalists for the Best Treasurer of the Year Award of the Association of Black Securities and Investment Professionals.

In addition, he has served on the Audit Committee (2002 to 2004), the Loan Restructuring Committee (2001), the Budget Policy and Monitoring Committee (2006 to 2009) as well as the Tshwane 2010 SWC Host City Political Committee (2007 to 2010). In 2004 and 2005 he served as a Judge in the Premiers Service Excellence Awards (Gauteng) and in 2012 as a Judge in the Proudly SA Home Grown Awards.

In 2011 he was elected to the Gauteng Provincial Executive Committee ofSALGA and in December 2011 he was co-opted to the National ExecutiveCommittee (NEC) of SALGA where he chairs the National Working Group on Municipal Finances.


LINDIWE KWELE City of Tshwane

Deputy City Manager,Strategy Development and Implementation Ms Kwele was born in KwaZulu-Natal, not far from the birthplace of visionary South African and leader of the ANC, Chief Albert Luthuli. She attended school at Sacred Heart Secondary, a convent school, which instilled in her an enduring sense of moral fi bre and fi rm values.

Her energetic approach to innovation, along with her creative ideas,strategic leadership and hard work also found expression through her formaleducational achievements, which include a Master of BusinessAdministration (Wales University), Advance Business Programme (NatalTechnikon) and Bachelor of Administration (University of Durban Westville) where she majored in economics and public administration.

Before moving into corporate business (Eskom and Mondi Paper), Ms Kwele held a position at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) as a Commissioner. Before this, she served as an Information Analyst in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Ms Kwele has over the past 15 years showcased her expert knowledge and ability to innovate along the value chain in the corporate environment, as well as in two of South Africa’s largest Cities, the City of Durban and the City of Johannesburg, where she was the Head of the Business Support Unit, later Chief Executive Offi cer of Durban Africa, and Chief Executive Offi cer of Joburg Tourism Company.

As a Deputy City Manager in the City of Tshwane, Ms Kwele is charged with the responsibility of leading, directing and overseeing the Strategy Development and Implementation Cluster.

After initially studying at a rural university, Ngobeni went on to complete a BCom (Hons) and a Master of Business Administration degree at the University of Pretoria. His areas of expertise are fi nance, credit, fi nancial risk, treasury management and economic development.


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BLESSING MANALE City of Tshwane Spokesperson

Jacob Blessing Manale completed matric atHwiti High School, graduated at theUniversity of the North (now Limpopo), B.Iuris (four-yearundergraduate degree). He also holds a Certifi cate inCommunity Relations and DevelopmentCommunications (PRISA) (2000) and aPost-Graduate in Corporate Governance and Strategy from GIMT (2003). In the past 20 years he has occupied various positions of leadership and respon-sibility in the youth and student movement, in South Africa and internationally.

His previous employment includes being Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Western Cape, Deputy Director Communications (2000 to 2003), Director for International Cooperation (2003 to 2006) and Chief Director:Environmental Planning, Coordination and Information (all at the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism), Deputy Director-General – MaputoDevelopment Corridor, Offi ce of the Premier in Mpumalanga from 2008 to 2011. He has been the Executive Head for Media and Public Affairs at the City of Tshwane since January 2013.

DORAH NTEO Chief Sustainability Specialist

Ms Dorah Nteo is a sustainability specialist with over 17 years’ experience in the fi eld. She currently serves as a Strategic Executive Director: City Sustainability at the City of Tshwane.

Until December 2012, Ms Nteo was a Chief Policy Advisor for Sustainable Development at the South African government’s Department of Environmental Affairs where she spearheaded the development and implementation of the National Strategy for Sustainable Development, South Africa’s engagements in global sustainable development negotiations, and the environmental sector green economy response, including the establishment and management of the national Green Fund.


Business Science (GIBS), a Master’s Degree in Environment andDevelopment from the University of Sussex, a Post-Graduate Diploma inEnvironmental Diplomacy from the University of Geneva, and a First Degree in Environmental Health from the Tshwane University of Technology.

Ms Nteo is currently a member of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)Government Advisory Group, and a non-executive director of the GreenBuilding Council of South Africa board.

SHAAKIRA KAROLIA Chief Economist

Shaakira Karolia currently serves as the City of Tshwane’s Chief Economist and is also Economic Advisor to the Executive Mayor of Tshwane.

Before joining the City of Tshwane, Shaakira worked within the strategy team at the Johannes-burg Stock Exchange during which time one of her major projects included establishing the BRICS stock exchange alliance. She subsequently worked as an Economic Analyst in the Offi ce of the CEO at the JSE, following which she lectured Economics at the University of Pretoria.

Shaakira graduated with her Masters in Econometrics, cum laude, from the University of Pretoria. She is currently pursuing an MPhil in PoliticalPhilosophy and her research interests include monetary economics and banking,development economics, political economy and economic history.


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LUNGILE MADLALA Head: Tshwane Rapid Transit

Lungile Madlala currently possesses a National Diploma in Civil Engineering, a BSc Applied Sci-ences in Civil Engineering and Transportation and a BTech in Civil Engineering and Transportation. Her professional capabilities include transport planning, road planning and design, and road con-struction and maintenance. She started her career in consulting engineering as a bursary student while working for consulting engineers for which she did transport studies, road design and road construction supervision.

She has worked for governmental institutions for a number of years. Shestarted as a Roads Regional Engineer in Kimberley, Northern Cape, then worked as a Chief Engineer: Systems Transport Planner in the Eastern Cape, and then became a Director: Coordinating Expanded Public Works Programme at the National Department of Public Works. She joined the City of Tshwane in 2008 as an Executive Director for Roads and Stormwater and was further appointed as the Strategic Executive Director for Transport in 2012. She is currently the Executive Project Manager ofthe Tshwane Rapid Transit, the unit that is implementing the BRT project. She is a former board member of the South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL) and the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB).

IVAN TUROK HSRC

Professor Ivan Turok is an urban economist/planner and acting Executive Director at theHuman Sciences Research Council in SouthAfrica. He is also an Honorary Professor at the Universities of Glasgow and Cape Town, and Edi-tor-in-Chief of the journal Regional Studies. He is a regular adviser to the United Nations, OECD, Euro-pean Commission, African Development Bank andseveral national governments.


GRAEME GOTZPresenterTshwane Quality of Life Survey

Dr Graeme Gotz is the Director of Research at the Gauteng City Region Observatory. In this capacity he works with a group of researchers and senior re-searchers to defi ne and drive the research agenda of the Observatory. Until June 2009, Graeme was a Specialist: Strategy and Policy in the Central Strat-egy Unit, Offi ce of the Executive Mayor, at the City of Johannesburg. He developed a number of strate-gies, including the 2006 Growth and Development Strategy and the 2007 Inner City Regeneration Charter.

Before joining the City he was a consultant for four years, specialising in local government and urban development. During this period he was the principal author of the 2004 State of South African Cities Report. Between 1997 and 2001 he was a member of staff at the Graduate School of Public and Develop-ment Management, University of the Witwatersrand, serving as Manager of the Local Government Programme, lecturer on the Masters of Management: Public and Development Management, and designer and convener of the MM: Local Governance and Development.

In 1995 and 1996 he worked as a researcher at the Centre for PolicyStudies. Graeme’s academic work focuses on city development and urban renewal,urban economic development, local government, government strategy,intergovernmental relations and state theory.

Ivan wrote the 2011 State of South African Cities Report and is co-author of the 2006 State of English Cities Report. His other books include: Changing Cities: Rethinking Urban Competitiveness, Cohesion and Governance (2005), Twin Track Cities (2005), The Jobs Gap in Britain’s Cities (1999) and The Coherence of EU Regional Policy (1997).

He has authored over 150 journal articles and papers on aspects of urban and regional development and policy. His research covers various aspects of urban and regional development, labour markets, the green economy, resilient cities, urban transformation and national urban policies.


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ALAN MABINUniversity of Pretoria

Panel Contributor: Rethinking the city-construct:implications for South African cities

Alan Mabin was born in Johannesburg andstudied at Wits University, Ohio State University andSimon Fraser University, Canada. He is a CorporateMember of the South African Planning Institute. He taught at Wits from October 1981, and from 2005 to 2010 headed the School of Architecture andPlanning at Wits. Alan is now Research Fellow at the University of Pretoria, leading the programme ‘Capital cities – space, justice and belonging’. He is a member of the Council of the International Planning History Society and of the board of RC21 – Research Committee on Urban andRegional Research, International Sociological Association.

Alan has held visiting positions at Yale (USA), Queen’s (Canada),Université de Paris Ouest [X]-Nanterre-La Défense, Laboratoire Architecture VilleUrbanisme Environnement, and Sciences Po in Paris, France; and Universi-dade de São Paulo in Brasil. His urban development experience includes beingfounding chairperson of Planact (an urban NGO) in Johannesburg. He has worked with numerous national, provincial and local government departments in SouthAfrica and with several multilateral organisations

MICHAEL SUTCLIFFECity Insight

Panel Contributor : Rethinking the city-construct:implications for South African cities

Dr Michael Sutcliffe has a MSc and BA from the IE Business School in Madrid and from theUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal, respectively, as well as a PhD from Ohio State University. He has previous-ly been a Professor in Town and Regional Planning,


DAVID SISLENWorld Bank

Panel FacilitatorRethinking the city-construct:implications for South African cities

David Sislen is the Programme Leader for Infrastruc-ture and Environment for the World Bank based in Pretoria. He is responsible for the World Bank’s pro-grammes in urban, water, transport, energy, environ-ment, social, agriculture and rural development for Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Swa-ziland.

A native of Washington, DC, David hold degrees in Geography from Macal-ester College (USA) and Economics from Johns Hopkins University. Prior to his current assignment, he was based in Bogota, Colombia, and has worked in the areas of urban development and infrastructure fi nance throughout Latin America, East Asia, Europe and Central Asia, and Africa.

an ANC Member of the Provincial Legislature from 1994 to1999, theChairperson of the Municipal Demarcation Board and, for almost ten years, the City Manager of eThekwini Municipality.

Michael currently works as a partner in a consultancy, City Insight Pty Ltd, which was established to provide insight, information and advice on cities in the developing world. City Insight is currently undertaking work for national, provincial and local government in South Africa in a range of areas, including strategic planning, management advice, skills development, compliance mon-itoring and reviewing the delivery of services. He is also undertaking work with international agencies and national agencies in areas such as peer evaluation, basic service delivery and facilitating international cooperation arrangements, including in Africa and Palestine.


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PAUL HANGERPanel Contributor Transit-oriented Development

Paul Hanger has over 18 years of professionalexperience in both the public and the privatesectors. His core expertise includes urban design, spatial and urban planning, regional and ruraldevelopment planning, spatial and 3D modelling, and GIS-based advanced spatial analysis. Hisrelevant experience includes numerouslarge-scale urban design projects, precinct and siteframeworks, as well as spatial planning anddevelopment frameworks.

Paul’s urban design experience includes overall responsibility for the urban design framework for Cosmo City, urban design studies for the Constitutional Court, the Opera House site and the Gasworks site.

More recently, Paul was responsible for managing the formulation of urbandesign frameworks for the Diepkloof and Bara Central nodes in Soweto and the Fashion District in the Johannesburg CBD. In addition to strategicplanning and urban design experience, Paul has acquired extensiveexperience in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and computer-based modelling and visualisation, providing strategic analytical support to a range of planning and development processes, including the Gauteng SpatialDevelopment Framework.

At Iyer Urban Design Studio, Paul manages the Johannesburg offi ce of the company, and is involved in a wide range of planning and urban design work, both nationally and internationally, that refl ects the diverse nature of the fi rm’s expertise. These including urban design, urban analysis, traditional spatial and strategic planning studies, as well as specialist studies requiring a strong GIS input.


ANDREW LUKEGAPP

Panel Contributor : Transit-oriented Development

Andrew Luke is an urban designer with 20 years’ experience in town planning and urban design. He is currently a director at GAPP Architects and Urban Designers. Andrew has an undergraduate degree in Town and Regional Planning from Wits University (BSc (TRP)) and a Master’s Degree in Urban De-sign (MAUD) from the University of Westminster in the UK. He is a member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) and the Urban Design Institute of South Africa.

Andrew has particular experience in developing urban design frameworks,spatial frameworks, precinct plans, architectural projects and development manuals for complex, multi-use developments, and in particular circumstanc-es, overseeing their implementation. These have been undertaken in both thepublic and private sectors throughout Africa for a range of mixed-use project types.

RICHARD MATCHETTPanel Contributor Rethinking the city-construct:implications for South African cities

Richard Matchett is a registered civil engineer with a strong belief in the need for sustainability in the built environment. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Stellenbosch University, and has worked on trans-portation, roads and property development projects in both Africa and the Middle East. He has a pen-chant for creative design – some call it “the knack” – and he strives to develop practical, sustainable solutions for clients in both the private and public sectors. As a Divisional Di-rector at WSP Group Africa, Richard has a keen interest in collaboration and trans-disciplinary design. He believes in sustainable design practices that yield achievable, fi nancially rewarding solutions to the client. He says that, when de-signing, we need to “solve the needs of the present with an eye on the future”.


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MARK ORANJEUniversity of Pretoria

Panel Contributor Transit-oriented Development

Mark Oranje is Professor and Head of theDepartment of Town and Regional Planning at the University of Pretoria. His key areas ofresearch interest and consulting are planning policy,long-term planning, integrated developmentplanning and planning history. He has authored and co-authored numerous academic papers,articles, chapters in books and technical reports. Over the last twenty years, Mark has acted as consultant to a number of national and provincialgovernment departments, national and provincial planning commissions, and science councils on issues relating to municipal integrated development plans, local and regional economic development, municipal, provincial, national and supra-national planning, land use management, intergovernmental relations, and the integration of land use and transport planning.

YAKOV SERGIENKOPanel Facilitator Transit-oriented Development

Yakov Sergienko joined the Moscow offi ce in 2008.He leads projects related to strategy development,operational transformations and organisationalchanges in the transport, infrastructure and logistics sector, as well as the metal and mining industry. Recently, in the transportsector, Yakov has successfully completed a project for mapping out abusiness strategy for a national passenger rail operator. Under this project, thenational rail operator and public authorities obtained external expertise to guide thedevelopment of a comprehensive strategy for passenger traffi c, includingmethodologies for evaluating and prioritising transport infrastructureprojects and criteria for making decisions about high-speed railway lines bybenchmarking against alternative modes of transport.


RASHIQ FATAAR Panel Contributor Inner City Revitalization

Mark Oranje is Professor and Head of the DeRashiq Fataar is the founder and director of Our Future Cities (OFC), an independent non-profi t organisation that houses the platform Future Cape Town and, more recently, also Future Johannesburg, Future Lagos and Future London. The OFC network is committed to building a democracy around the future of cities. As an independent consul-tant, speaker and writer, Rashiq works at the intersection of urbanism, new me-dia and economics. He holds a degree in Actuarial Science from the University of Cape Town and currently serves on the board of Cape Town Tourism.

Examples of other recent projects include:

• Developing a transport master plan for a large city (a transport strategy for a major transportation hub, including an action plan for implementing the transport services target model)

• Establishing a project offi ce for coordinating recommending and ensuring communications

• Developing an operational transformation plan for a public transport opera-tor

• Designing a strategy for one of the largest metro operators in Europe, plan-ning and implementing an optimisation programme in connection with a two-fold expansion of infrastructure

• Implementing in-practice solutions which generate additional income from assets, increase the productivity of existing infrastructure, and improve staff performance.

Yakov is the head of public transport in the Global Cities Initiative. Prior to joining McKinsey, he worked as a consultant at RusHydro and was involved in a series of mergers and acquisitions of BP Plc in Western Europe. He holds a PhD in economics and is a professor.


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SHARON LEWISJohannesburg Development Agency

Panel Contributor : Inner City Revitalisation

Sharon Lewis became interested in city develop-ment when she was a Town and Regional Plan-ning student at the University of the Witwatersrand in the 1990s. She has worked in the public sector in South Africa for the last 17 years, focusing on urban policy, public fi nance to incentivise sustain-able urban development, local government’s role in urban development and urban management, and infrastructure and property investments to improve urban systems. Sharon is currently employed as Ex-ecutive Manager: Planning and Strategy with the Johannesburg Development Agency, where she is responsible for directing the strategic focus of this agency of the City of Johannesburg, assembling a set of potential public upgrading projects and improving urban development practice through area-based devel-opment and management.

TANYA ZACHTanya Zach Development Planners

Independent Consultant Panel Contributor : Inner City Revitalisation

Mark Oranje is Professor and Head of the DeRDr Tanya Zack is a town and regional planner with 20 years’ experience in working in municipal, pri-vate and nongovernmental environments related to housing, planning and development issues in Johannesburg. She holds a PhD from the Univer-sity of the Witwatersrand. She has undertaken substantive work that is directly relevant to the scope of work for the current task.


MONICA ALBONICOPanel Contributor Leveraging City-owned assets and public spaces

Monica Albonico holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture and a Master’s Degree in urban de-sign from the University of the Witwatersrand. She is the director of the Metacity, Urban Projects Unit and a principal and coordinator of Architec-tural and Urban Design Projects at the fi rm she co-founded, Albonico Sack Metacity Architects and Urban Designers. As an educator, Monica has actively participated in ac-ademic and training programmes across South Africa and Latin America. Her work focuses on design innovation based on an open, interactive and inclusive approach to city building. Her work primarily addresses issues related to urban transformation, cultural and heritage spaces, sustainable human settlements and the creation of liveable cities. To this end she has been involved in numer-ous symposiums across the country and the world, showcasing the agenda of innovation and liveability.

This includes preparation of the urban component of a second economy strat-egy for the Presidency, serving as acting Executive Manager: Planning and Strategy for the Johannesburg Development Agency (2009), co-authorship of the mayoral mid-term review in 2008, research projects focused on develop-ment issues in Johannesburg, research into urban management in Hillbrow and Berea, co-authorship of a bad buildings strategy for the City, and co-authorship of the Inner City Roadmap.


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SUE BANNISTERPanel Contributor Leveraging City-owned assets and public spaces

Sue Bannister has an MBA from the IE Business School in Madrid, an MPhil in Land Economy from Cambridge University and an undergraduate BSc de-gree in Town and Regional Planning from the Univer-sity of the Witwatersrand. She currently works as a partner in a consultancy, City Insight Pty Ltd, which was established to provide insight, information and advice on cities in the developing world. City Insight is currently undertaking work for national, provincial and local government in South Africa in a range of areas, including strategic planning, management advice, skills development, compliance monitoring, and reviewing the delivery of services. Work is also being undertaken with international agencies in areas such as peer evaluation, basic service delivery and facilitating international cooperation arrangements.

Prior to the establishment of City Insight, Sue was deputy head, and then head, of the Strategic Projects Unit of the eThekwini Municipality – a unit established to manage projects of strategic importance to the City. Here she was involved in conceptualising, planning and managing a wide range of city development projects.

SOLAM MKHABELA University of Witwatersrand

Panel Contributor Leveraging City-owned assets and public spaces

Solam Mkhabela has been educated at the Massachu-setts College of Art, Boston, the Cooper Union, New York and the University of Cape Town. He holds a BAS Degree in Architecture (UCT) and a Master’s Degree of City Planning and Urban Design (UCT). In 2002 he co-founded blacklinesonwhitepaper, a design collaborative recognised through invitation to international events such as the Rotterdam Biennale of Architecture, Cologne Plan 5, the Ordos project in China, African Perspectives in Casablanca, and winning competition entries.


ITUMELENG MORULE Panel Contributor Leveraging City-owned assets and public spaces

Itumeleng Morule has at least six years’ working expe-rience in architecture. After completing his Bachelor of Architectural Studies at the University of Cape Town in 1999, he worked as an intern for Luyanda Mpahlwa at MMA Architects Ekapa and GAPP Architects Cape Town for a year. In 2003, he graduated with a Bach-elor of Architecture from the University of Cape Town and relocated to Johan-nesburg where he joined Bentel Associates International as a Junior Architect, working his way up as an Architect and obtaining in-house architectural training in store planning, mall design and graphic design. Here he was involved in various large projects including the Michelangelo Towers and mall in Sandton City, the Palms in Lagos, Nigeria, Accra Mall in Ghana, and the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link (GRRL), to name a few. He also worked as the Master Architect for the Gautrain Architects Joint Venture (GAJV) team to produce the concept de-sign master plan for the Gautrain GRRL. He did design development, working drawings, coordination drawings, project management, document control and signage design for the all the GRRL stations and was particularly involved with the OR Tambo, Rhodesfi eld and Malboro stations.

In May 2008, Morule joined the Johannesburg offi ce of Boogertman + Partners Architects, where he joined the team on the Peermont Group Projects. His prin-cipal architectural skills are design and development, the production of working drawings and details, and site supervision and management.

He was the urban design consultant for the Inner City Transport Study in Jo-hannesburg and the SHIFT professional task team’s guidelines for neighbour-hood development and informal settlements upgrade. His research interests are street typology informal morphology, fi lm photography as urban design tool and media access to public spaces.


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Guy Trangos Gauteng City Region Observatory

Panel FacilitatorLeveraging City-owned assets and public spaces

Guy Trangos is an architecture graduate and urban researcher at the Gauteng City Region Observatory, a partnership between the Gauteng provincial gov-ernment, the University of the Witwatersrand, the Uni-versity of Johannesburg and local government. With a Master’s Degree in Professional Architecture from the University of the Witwatersrand and an MSc in City Design and Social Sci-ence from the London School of Economics and Political Science, his research interests are centred on public space, mobility, information and urban design, and informality. He writes on architecture and cities for numerous publications, and has previously worked as a professional architect, exhibition designer and researcher.

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