Conscape Development Essay

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Cape Town faces many urban challenges and the government is only capable of providing a certain amount of services and infrastructure to support the challenges faced. Wescape development is a private community projected funded by private property development companies and many other contributors. It aims to capture the essence of this great city in which we live in and make an alternative option available to people at an everyday level. This project is of great importance as there is thousands of South Africans within the Western Cape region looking for not only a stable job source but a stable shelter in which to live and raise their families and by the lack of infrastructure and resources made available currently this development is going to create many presentable opportunities. It is definitely a good answer to Cape Town’s housing shortage.
Historically South Africa has never had too much consideration when it comes to the biodiversity between the branch of the biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings and the residents that own or stay on the land. With post-Apartheid pressures that South Africa holds as a nation many companies and community organisations have found that they need to give back as a way of repairing the exploration of labour and land from the past. It is also the goal for the main Organizers of Wescape, communiTgrow, to ensure that the workforce of creating and building Wescape development is 85% from the local population.
Cape Town has frightening figures when it comes to the infrastructure and services provided. There is more than two hundred thousand informal settlements and informal structures. There is an excess of four hundred thousand people c...

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...t focuses of integrated community development and will insure that standards in the building are met and constantky increasing , they focuss mainly on projects that rekindle human dignity and Wescape is a brilliant example of a project that is giving many citizens of the Western Cape hope of a new life.
All the above and many more private developers play a huge role in assuring the running of Wescape is meets expectations, ensuring that building of not only construction but a stronger and more positive community is running smoothly and promises are met. They, the private developers, ensure that there is a shift shift towards more market-oriented development practice is the result of an evolutionary process of increased ‘neoliberalization’, which advocates free trade, open markets, privitazition and enchancing the role of the private sector in a more modern society.

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