Black heritage resources in central Durban

Articles:

Editor’s Notes

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Author(s) Walter Peters

Origins & Siting, Vulnerability, Threats & Survivors

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Author(s) Leonard Rosenberg

Location(s) Central Durban

Keywords: Bay of Natal, colonial, apartheid, forced removals, spatial evolution

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Colonial and Union Period Spatial Practice: Marginalisation

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Author(s) Lenard Rosenberg

Location(s) Durban

Keywords: Marginalisation, ‘Durban system’, Retail Dealers Act, Native (Urban Areas) Act of 1923, municipal monopoly on the brewing, sorghum beer, breweries, beerhalls, barracks

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Black Neighbourhoods

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Author(s) Lenard Rosenberg

Keywords: Coloured people, Magazine Barracks, Railway Barracks, Native Affairs Department, Marries Natives’ Quarters, Baumannville, Eastern vlei, Western Vlei, Bamboo Square, Kearney

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Apartheid Era Spatial Practice: Bleaching*

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Author(s) Lenard Rosenberg

Keywords: Group Areas Act, forced removals, ‘bleaching’, Natives Resettlement Act, racially defined townships

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Areas & Buildings that Survived the Bleaching Process

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Author(s) Lenard Rosenberg

Keywords: Currie’s Fountain, Victoria Street bus ranks, Berea railway station, Rivertown Beer Hall, Dr Yusuf Dadoo (Grey) Street, Indian Group Area

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Unite Building, UKZN Howard College Campus

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Architect(s): Walker Smith Architects

Author(s) Paul Phillips

Location(s) UKZN Howard College Campus

Keywords: University Intensive Tuition for Engineering, disadvantaged backgrounds, pods, castellated beams, UNITE

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Family Court, Verulam

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Architect(s): Urban Architects cc (Marcel Henry, Ian Barsley)

Author(s) Marcel Henry

Location(s) Verulum

Keywords: Amafa, historical Verulam prison and courthouse, Mahatma Gandhi, Isiah Shembe, first prisons to house females, Gandhi Square, courtrooms for family matters

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Obituary: Peter Engblom (1957-2020)

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Author(s) Nina Saunders

Keywords: triennial International Union of Architects’ (UIA) World Congress in 2014, curated architectural exhibitions, Rodney Harber, Durban Art Gallery, Trish Emmett, Jonathan Edkins, eThekwini, Paul Mikhula, Jack Chiang, architecture otherwhere

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9th Avenue Waterside

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Architect(s): Kevin Boyd Design (Interiors)

Author(s) Kevin Boyd

Location(s) Durban yacht mole

Keywords: yacht language, ‘barn’ form, Cafe Fish, Pieter Boorsma

A Travel Diary: ‘Akwaaba’: Ghana Travel

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Author(s) Kevin Lloyd

Keywords: Gold Coast, African Independence, Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana, kente, fufu, kenkey, old tropical architecture, British, Nyemitei House, TJ Architects