34 Degrees Design
Working notes on landscape, cartography, urban design and the trees that shape South African places. Written from the studio, not for an algorithm.
Arbeau ·
Cape Town does not simply have a tree-number problem. It has a tree-selection problem. Building a resilient urban canopy means moving beyond simplistic indigenous-versus-exotic thinking towards climate fit, diversity, spatial performance and ecological responsibility.
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Gauteng is routinely mapped as infrastructure rather than landscape. Look beyond the provincial border and a distinctive Highveld city-region appears, shaped by ridges, watersheds, mining and more than a century of settlement.
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Cape Town and the Winelands are remarkably compressed: mountains, plains, vineyards, cities and two coastlines repeatedly collide. A map reveals how strongly the landscape still dictates where everything goes.
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