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Black heritage resources in central Durban

Volume: 45, Edition: 3, 2020

Articles: 

  • Editor's Notes

    Page i

    Author(s) Walter Peters

  • Origins & Siting, Vulnerability, Threats & Survivors

    Page 1

    Author(s) Leonard Rosenberg

    Location(s) Central Durban

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

  • Colonial and Union Period Spatial Practice: Marginalisation

    Page 2

    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

  • Black Neighbourhoods

    Page 3

    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

  • Apartheid Era Spatial Practice: Bleaching*

    Page 6

    Author(s) Lenard Rosenberg

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

  • Areas & Buildings that Survived the Bleaching Process

    Page 10

    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

  • Unite Building, UKZN Howard College Campus

    Page 11

    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

  • Family Court, Verulam

    Page 12

    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

  • Obituary: Peter Engblom (1957-2020)

    Page 14

    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

  • 9th Avenue Waterside

    Page 15

    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

    Page 17

    Author(s) Kevin Lloyd

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