DATA DAY | Africa, Uncolonized: A Detailed Look at an Alternate Continent

DATA DAY | Africa, Uncolonized: A Detailed Look at an Alternate Continent

PERSPECTIVE AND UNDERSTANDING THE AFRICAN SPACE.

I love this map from Big Think!

An alternate political geography had Europe not colonised the continent.

While not the boundaries of today’s Nation States, it is likely that many of these regions exist in some form or another as de facto geopolitical elements.

This raises interesting questions for regional and (trans)national planning where cultures, ethnicities and settlement systems extend beyond current national borders.

The inverted south-north map orientation is symbolic of a need to adjust our perspective and understanding of African space.

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VIEWPOINT | The Indigenisation of South African Planning

South Africa is a multicultural nation. Her erstwhile international identity as a bastion of legislated racism is today juxtaposed…

DATA DAY | City Data as the Universal Language

Online data portals are becoming more commonplace. The opportunities of increased access to data are now offset by uncertainty over quality.

FROM THE DESK | Urban Apartheid Spatial Legacies

Most South African cities still exhibit apartheid settlement patterns. Discrete areas of racial concentration and a variety of buffer elements

DATA DAY | Official Languages in Gauteng Suburbs – 2011

Dominance of certain languages in Gauteng suburbs shows an interesting picture when one removes English from the analysis of 2011 Census Data

VIEWPOINT | Lexis Nexis releases ‘SPLUMA – A Practical Guide’

SPLUMA – A Practical Guide, compiled in part by our friend and colleague Advocate Nic Laubscher (B.Juris LL.B)