Lance Berelowitz: Cape Town and Vancouver diverge on development

It’s a small world. On the same day recently that the City of Vancouver approved its new Northeast False Creek Plan (NFCP), on the opposite side of the world, the City of Cape Town announced the winning bid for a scheme to redevelop that city’s Foreshore Freeway Precinct. The two projects have much in common, addressing several of the same issues such as elevated freeways built as part of a larger network that was never completed, disconnections to the adjacent urban waterfront, the