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What does the future of sustainable transport look like in Lagos?
By Kasope Aleshinloye Also read: Transport in Lagos: Between building and banning, INFOGRAPHIC: Lagos Cable Car Transport Project, and Lagos battles traffic in a unique way Traffic on the streets of...
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The Lagos Tour: How easy is it to walk around Lagos?
“the city seems more concerned with keeping up appearances by frequently painting curbstones instead of creating a seamless pedestrian network” ‘The Lagos Tour’ is a monthly feature from Future Lagos...
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FUTURE LAGOS | The Lagos Tour: Roundabouts, Bridges, and Bottlenecks
‘Reviving a city from past neglect through construction and maintenance of new infrastructure – adequate to accommodate rapid population growth – is expensive and also not an easy task.’ ‘The Lagos...
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FUTURE LAGOS | Catching a Train in Lagos!
‘Lagosians either have or aspire to have large cars that can withstand flooded roads and large potholes.’ At present there is no train service that serves the masses in Lagos but the Nigerian Railway...
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FUTURE JOBURG | Jozi’s jumble of buildings defines an African city
“That was my first memory of Johannesburg: the people, the traders and the possibility of striking up a conversation with a stranger.” Guy Trangos Instagram @guyinjoburg The City of Gold’s...
View ArticleFUTURE CAPE TOWN |China designs the world’s first hydrogen tram
“the world’s first hydrogen powered tram” The China South Rail Corporation announced this month the only hydrogen powered team , making China in this sense the only country in the world that has...
View ArticleFUTURE CAPE TOWN | Mexico City’s New Airport
“… Mexico has really seized the initiative…There will be nothing else like it in the world” The competition winning design for the new international airport at Mexico City by Foster + Partners, FR-EE...
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FUTURE CAPE TOWN | The trains for future of South Africa’s cities
“This first X’Trapolis Mega commuter trains are expected to be ready by the end of 2015…” The first new PRASA commuter trains produced at Alstom’s Lapa plant in Brazil will be ready by the end 2015...
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FUTURE CAPE TOWN | Development Updates
09 June 2015 Building of the University of Cape Town’s exciting new Capex project – the New Lecture Theatre (NLT) – started in mid-November 2014. The new building, which is expected to be completed...
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FUTURE CAPE TOWN | WATCH : How to reimagine the streets of the future
“Streets are some of the most valuable resources that a city has, and yet it’s an asset that’s largely hidden in plain sight” In this funny and thought-provoking talk, Janette Sadik-Khan,...
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FUTURE GOLD COAST | How to build light rail in our cities without emptying...
“if we manage it well, this kind of partnership with private expertise can deliver beautiful cities” An exploration of the way forward for light rail reveals rail as pertinent to the future of urban...
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FUTURE LAGOS | Rethinking the future of the Lagos lagoon
“The Lagoon City first of all has to add qualities instead of being the next parasitic urban development.” In an attempt to develop visionary perspectives for the future of Lagos, Nigerian experts and...
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FUTURE CAPE TOWN | Why are our city spaces designed for serial killers?
“hundreds, if not thousands, of working-class, urban South Africans are robbed, murdered and raped in open fields” Sean Dayton questions a disturbing phenomenon in Cape Town: nowhere spaces designed...
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Archive : The R80 billion plan to sink Cape Town’s rail lines | FUTURE CAPE TOWN
This is the vision for a section of the Cape Town CBD for the year 2030 by Makeka Design Lab. The idea is the brain child of Mokena Makeka, the Principal and Creative Director of Makeka Design Lab. In...
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Voices Of The City: Ladipo Eso | FUTURE LAGOS
“Emotions run high in Lagos and you are always driven to feel angry, or frustrated, but it takes a lot of personal effort to channel that into some kind of creativity.” This week we meet with Ladipo...
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New Cape Town transit plan unveiled
Image Credit: IOL: Cindy Waxa / INLSA The city council’s mayoral committee has adopted a new, long-term spatial and transport plan aimed at making the city more compact, denser and concentrated around...
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FUTURE LAGOS | Towards adaptive traffic management solutions for Lagos
“Lagos could do with an adaptive traffic control system, as its traffic wardens and signal infrastructure are over-burdened by congestion and rush-hour travel.” Rush hour traffic on Ikorodu Road,...
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Why cycling should matter when planning the future of South African cities |...
“We can either have a city of roads-for-cars, or we can have everything else” South Africa is not a country of cars. In fact, the majority do not own cars. Brett Petzer makes the case for cycling, and...
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R4.1 billion Khayelitsha-Wynberg MyCiTi trunk route to be launched by 2020
The City of Cape Town plans to extend its rapidly expanding MyCiTi bus rapid transport route through the southern suburbs of Plumstead and Wynberg to connect parts of Mitchells Plain and Khayelitsha...
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WATCH : Why we have traffic congestion : A simulation of the flows of private...
“unsurprisingly, cities continue to be developed around the last mode to cross the line, the private car” Which mode do you think will be the first to cross the line? When citizens continue to focus on...
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