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Cape Town: design as vehicle for change

Published on 24/01/2014

Cape Town is the first city in Africa and the first in a developing country to win the title of World Design Capital. A great accolade, but what does this mean in practice? The Mother City says it is hoping to use design as a tool to get to grips with the legacies of its apartheid past and poor urban planning.