Desire Lines

<p>This ground breaking new work draws together a cross-section of South African scholars to provide a lively and comprehensive review of the under-researched area of heritage practice following the introduction of the National Heritage Resources Act.</p><p>Looking at the daily heritage debates, from naming streets to projects such as the Gateway to Robben Island, <em>Desire Lines</em> addresses the innovative strategies that have emerged in the practice of defining, identifying and developing heritage sites.</p><p>In a unique multi-disciplinary approach, contributions are featured from a broad spectrum of fields, including the built environment and public culture and education. Showcasing work from tour operators and museum curators alongside that of university-based scholars, this book is a comprehensive and singularly authoritative volume that charts the development of new and emergent public cultures in post-apartheid South Africa through the making and unmaking of its urban spaces.</p><p>This pioneering collection of essays and case studies is an indispensable guide for those working within or studying heritage practice.</p> <p><strong>Part 1: Planning Fictions</strong> 1. Planning Fictions: The Limits of Spatial Engineering and Governance in a Cape Flats Ghetto 2. 'Manenberg Avenue is Where it's Happening' 3. Remaking Modernism: South African Architecture In and Out of Time 4. Engaging with Difference: Understanding the Limits of Multiculturalism in Planning in the South African Context 5. Missing in Khayelitsha <strong>Part 2: Sites of Memory and Identity</strong> 6. Memory, Nation Building and the Post-Apartheid City: The Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg 7. Picturing Cape Town 8. Memory and the Politics of History in the District Six Museum 9. A Second Life: Heritage, Museums, Mimesis and the Tour Guides of Robben Island 10. Social Institutions as 'Places of Memory' and 'Places to Remember': The Case of the Ottery School of Industries 11. Living in the Past: Historic Futures in Double Time <strong>Part 3: Burial Sites</strong> 12. On a Knife-Edge or in the Fray: Managing Heritage Sites in a Vibrant Democracy 13. Leaving the City: Gender, Pastoral Power and the Discourse of Development in the Eastern Cape 14. The World Below: Post-Apartheid, Urban Imaginaries and the Bones of the Prestwich Street Dead <strong>Part 4: Transit Spaces</strong> 15. Transit Spaces: Picturing Urban Change 16. Paths of Nostalgia and Desire through Heritage Destinations at the Cape of Good Hope 17. Museums on Cape Town's Township Tours 18. Public Reflections 19. A Renaissance on our Doorsteps</p>