Foreshore, Cape Town
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The Foreshore is an area in
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,
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, situated in the city's
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(CBD), between the historic city centre and the Port of Cape Town. It is built on land reclaimed from
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in the 1930s and 1940s, in connection with the construction of the Duncan Dock, to replace the old
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. Much of the Foreshore area is occupied by transport infrastructure for the port and
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. Other notable buildings in the area are the
Cape Town Civic Centre The Cape Town Civic Centre is a building in the Foreshore area of Cape Town, South Africa that serves as the headquarters of the City of Cape Town - the municipality that governs the city. It was completed in 1978 by Concor, and is made up of ...
, the Artscape Theatre Centre, and the Cape Town International Convention Centre. The area is also home to the regional office of
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, located in The Towers. When the area was reclaimed, the Government undertook a detailed study (the Szlumper Commission) to decide how to use the land not needed by
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. This resulted in the issuance of a detailed proposal - ''The Cape Town Foreshore Plan''.See "The Cape Town Foreshore Plan: Final Report of the Cape Town Foreshore Technical Committee, 1947" (1948, Government Printer of the Union of South Africa).


External links


The Cape Town Foreshore Plan 1947


References

{{Cape Town, communities Geography of Cape Town Land reclamation