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... Architect , June, 19. Reframing Township Space: The Kliptown Project Lindsay Bremner I n 1955, the African National Congress (ANC) held its historic Congress of the People to ratify its liberation manifesto...

... . Remaking township space: The Kliptown project. Public Culture 16 : 519 -29. Castells, Manuel. 1996 . The rise of the network society . Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell. Chatterjee, Partha. 2004 . The politics of the governed: Reflections on popular politics in most of the world . New York: Columbia...

... Reframing Township Space: The Kliptown Project Lindsay Bremner 521 A Laboratory of Uncertainty Rodney Place 532 Cover: Photograph by and © Merwelene van der Merwe, untitled, 2002...

... Reframing Township Space: The Kliptown Project Lindsay Bremner 521 A Laboratory of Uncertainty Rodney Place 532 Cover: Photograph by and © Merwelene van der Merwe, untitled, 2002...

... at Kliptown, Soweto, was the benchmark of opposition during the years of apartheid rule. Its terms included demands for a multiracial, democratically elected government; equal opportunities; the nationalization of banks, mines, and heavy industries; and the redistribution of land. In 1956, 156 people...

... the final designs in an architectural competi- tion for the remaking of a historical public space in Kliptown, Soweto. The archi- tectural competition held for the development of Freedom Square offered archi- tects and designers an opportunity to construct “a new urban democracy in South Africa...

... as the “origins of South African unity” and a “milestone on the path of nonracialism.” It “prepared the ground” for the Defiance Campaign of the 1950s and “joint resistance to apartheid.” It also provided the backdrop for the Congress of the People held in Kliptown in 1955, where the Freedom Charter was adopted...