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Title: | Signs of the Times: Tourism and Public History at Cape Town's Victoria and Alfred Waterfront |
Authors: | Worden, Nigel Van Heyningen, Elizabeth B. |
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. |