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Name Your Hood
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City Of Cape Town Leads Groundbreaking Campaign For Street Renaming Process
29 Nov 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
As part of a highly successful campaign that launched in Cape Town’s City Bowl in July last year, Gugulethu has begun its own interactive, public campaign to unearth creative and significant new street and neighbourhood names for itself.
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Bruce Good Live On ‘Creative Mornings’ This Friday
12 Mar 2012 by Jessica Tasker / No Comments
If you don’t know about Name Your Hood by now, well then you haven’t been reading enough. This genius idea, created by Bruce Good basically gives people a chance to suggest names for their affiliated neighborhoods and then vote on one to stay, giving people the chance to actually identify themselves with where they live [...]
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Western Cape Premier Helen Zille Fully Endorses NameYourHood Initiative
16 Feb 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
In something of a coup for local neighbourhood naming campaign, NameYourHood, the organisation has received the full backing and endorsement of Western Cape Premier, Helen Zille. The Premier joins the likes of Guy Lundy (Accelerate Cape Town), Ravi Naidoo (Design Indaba), Mokena Makeka (MDL Founder), Nils Flaatten (Wesgro), Bulelwa Makalima-Ngewana (Cape Town Partnership) and Mariete Du [...]
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Woodstock – “Hood 7″ Needs A Name – NameYourHood.co.za
27 Jan 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
People get pretty mixed up with Woodstock – with Victoria Road and Sir Lowry Road and all the rest. There’s the bit where the Biscuit Mill is and then there’s another bit where The Armoury is and Ogilvy and La Bottega bar. The suburb will always remain Woodstock but it is clear it needs to [...]
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Minister Of Finance, Economic Development And Tourism Endorses Name Your Hood
11 Oct 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Wow! Check it out! Alan Winde, MEC, has officially endorsed the Name Your Hood project and its objective of intending to impart a sense of community cohesion and belonging. Because you know what builds a community? A common identity. And by naming the myriad un-named and vastly distinct neighborhoods in Cape Town, we can do [...]
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Cape Town City’s First Two Neighbourhoods Are Named – As Voting Begins For The Next Two!
11 Aug 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Little Camissa and The Loop are set to join the likes of Bokaap, Tamboerskloof and De Waterkant as names given to Cape Town’s unique neighbourhoods. The first phase of the Name Your Hood initiative concluded on Monday, 8th August, and with it two democratically named neighbourhoods were delivered from Name Your Hood. The Name Your [...]
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‘Saints’ Looking Good For New Cape Town Neighbourhood Name
18 Jul 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
I was checking out the Name Your Hood website this weekend and must say, the 200+ names that have already been put forward for the the first two neighbourhoods in the project (Hood 1: the area above Saigon on Kloof Street & Hood 2: the area around Heritage Square between Buitensingle and Strand) are just [...]
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‘Name Your Hood’ – What’s It All About?
23 Jun 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
There is a lot of talk going on about the new ‘Name Your Hood‘ initiative, and as you may have noticed, 2oceansvibe is in full support. It is exactly what Cape Town needs to fully explore and celebrate the unique pockets of this great city. We’ve got the new transport system and fancy bridges, but [...]
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