Umhlanga Ridge Town Centre

As a New Urbanism project, the focus of design in the Umhlanga Ridge Town Centre has been on a public environment that is accessible to all, is safe and convenient for pedestrians, manners the private car into a subservient role, is well landscaped, lit, managed and maintained and defines the complexity of a vibrant, mixed-use node with a legibility and place-making that gives the area a distinctive identity.

The architecture undertaken by individual developers and their respective teams is in terms of a development manual and a design review process, again under the direction of the Management Association. The manual encourages an eclectic, contemporary approach and is not stylistic nor historicist. The emphasis is on an architecture that is responsive to the public environment and engages with the life of the street at
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