Add to ORKGThe dissertation ‘associative typologies,’ reflects on the social disconnection observed amongst urban participants in 21st Century urban environments. Exclusionary planning policies combined with the preferential socio-economic environment have created atomized urban networks that impair the social performance within cosmopolitan landscapes such as South African city centers. With new integration imperatives defined in the Tshwane 2055 vision, which aims to integrate the city’s development potential region by region, the once ‘uncommon’ peripheral zones such as Mamelodi East, are yet to find new collective importance that is described by spatial association. The research topic focuses on the concept of ‘collective commons’ that represen...
