Sub-strategy 1: Creating Places that Celebrate and Promote Art and Historical Heritage

Here the most pressing need is to reclaim public spaces; to preserve them or recreate them where appropriate. Specific suggestions include:

• Durban should create and support an urban arts or cultural precinct
• New education and cultural centres could be established throughout the city. The emphasis here should be on diversity, rather than displaying particular cultures to the neglect of others
• Tourist routes dedicated to arts and history should be created and marketed
• Further steps should be taken to preserve the city’s built heritage
• Durban should be reinvented as a ‘Creative City’ with respect to the creation of its public spaces

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