We were invited by Maitland Garden Village to assist in the redevelopment of a community park by working with the Cape Town City Parks Dept. and forming a partnership with a group of community members. We visited local parks to identify layout and equipment options, gathered insight on the park through an informal survey, and hosted a community meeting to draw out and share design ideas. After addressing a safety concern through a park clean-up, the partnership hosted a fun day and planting activity to launch the redevelopment. The hard work of the partnership and City Parks Dept. resulted in a park design, implementation plan, catalogue of park elements, and the formation of a community steering committee who has taken the responsibility of seeing the redevelopment through to completion.

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Creator

• Bahtiarian, Lucine V.
• Connors, Katherine L.
• Goddard, Zachary N.
• Collins, Tyler A.

Subject

• Infrastructure
• Environment
• Community
• Sustainability

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-121913-035513

Keyword

• Parks--Management

Award

• President's IQP Award

Advisor

• Jiusto, Scott
• Higgins, Lorraine D.

Year

• 2013

Center

• Cape Town, South Africa Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Cape Town City Parks Department

Date created

• 2013-12-19

Location

• Cape Town

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2023-01-18