The Street as Pre-requisite Open Space: Current South African Settlement Practice and the Need for a Paradigm Shift Authors Fabio Todeschini David Dewar Downloads PDF (Russian) DOI: https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.35.24 Published 2013-01-21 Issue No. 35 (2013): public spaces Section Articles How to Cite The Street as Pre-requisite Open Space: Current South African Settlement Practice and the Need for a Paradigm Shift. (2013). Project Baikal, 10(35), 94-99. https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.35.24 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Keywords: urban open space, road, street Abstract In contexts experiencing rapid urbanization, such as South Africa, qualitatively fine open space is essential as that is where much of life is lived. However, the continued application of a modernist town-planning paradigm perversely tends to block the necessary shift in thinking. This is particularly exemplified in movement channels, which typically account for about a quarter of urban areas. The seminal distinction that has been lost is that between ‘road’ and ‘street’. Author Biographies Fabio Todeschini architect, city planner, urban designer and heritage practitioner, emeritus professor at University of Cape Town (South Africa) David Dewar Ph.D., Emeritus Professor at the University of Cape Town, city and regional planner (South Africa)