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Title:Signs of the Times: Tourism and Public History at Cape Town's Victoria and Alfred Waterfront
Authors:Worden, NigelISNI
Van Heyningen, Elizabeth B.ISNI
Year:1996
Periodical:Cahiers d'études africaines
Volume:36
Issue:141-142
Pages:215-236
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:tourism
urban history
urban renewal
Urbanization and Migration
History and Exploration
Economics and Trade
External link:https://doi.org/10.3406/cea.1996.2009
Abstract:This article examines the changing constructions of Cape Town's heritage in the course of the twentieth century, and in particular the images of the city's past at its main tourist venue, the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront, which has been developed since 1988. The Waterfront development has strikingly refocussed not only what visitors do in Cape Town, but also the historical and contemporary images of the city which they encounter and absorb. The authors describe attempts by the Cape Town History Project of the University of Cape Town, in which they are involved, to present alternative images through story boards erected at the site. In this process, the contestation of a variety of public, academic and corporate images were played out against the background of the shift to democracy in South Africa. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French.
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