ABSTRACT

This essay is concerned with the shaping, the framing and the fashioning of the discourse on urban futures in Cape Town, South Africa. I outline the multiple sources and diverse elements that feed into this discourse: specifically, metropolitan theory and local experience. Focusing on the praxis of the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town, I argue that there is a convergence between the language of crisis and the vision that comes across in policy and futurist scenariobuilding. I point at apartheid modernities and their recapitulation in utopian dreams for the post-apartheid city.

中文翻译：

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后种族隔离城市的乌托邦和反乌托邦：开普敦未来的实践

摘要

本文涉及南非开普敦关于城市未来的论述的塑造，框架和塑造。我概述了这种话语的多种来源和多种元素：特别是都市理论和当地经验。我将重点放在开普敦大学非洲城市中心的实践上，我认为危机的语言与政策和未来主义设想方案中的构想之间存在着融合。我指的是种族隔离的现代性及其在后种族隔离城市的乌托邦梦想中的概括。