THE URBAN TRACE - Some thoughts on New Cape Quarter Mall - Somerset Road Cape Town

If the traces of the past are retained while constructing the future around them by being lived in by some of those building them, then both are enhanced.

If we copy the past in the present  then both result in  a hollowed out and empty future and both degraded.

The traces of the past are "spoors" (tracks) leading to the future, i.e. the future is constructed on the foundation /ground of the past in the present and and lived in the future.

The more authentic and centered then life is richer and more complex the present will be and the richer and more life-giving the future will become.