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Item Local Councillors: scapegoats for a dysfunctional participatory democratic system? Lessons from practices of local democracy in Johannesburg.(Critical Dialogue: Public Participation in Review., 208) Benit Gbaffou, ClaireThis paper starts with the study of participation patterns in different neighbourhoods in Johannesburg, and demonstrates that institutional channels (be it representative democracy, or various participatory institutions and instruments) are currently not working in Johannesburg. Be it in low income or high-income areas, suburbs or townships, residents have to resort to other means, sidelining in particular their ward councillor, to be heard. We question the reasons for this lack of bottomup dialogue, focusing on the figure of the ward councillor as a supposedly key link between residents and local government, but however not able to play his/her role. We contest the dominant vision that the failure of participatory democracy in South Africa is the consequence of a lack of training, education or democratic culture, and we argue that both the limited power of ward councillors in Council, and the lack of incentive for fostering their accountability in front of voters, make local democracy institutions dysfunctional. More broadly, we question the lack of importance of participatory democracy in the ANC and in the government agenda, despite the political discourses claiming the contrary.Item African Architect; the Journal of the Association of Transvaal Architects(Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1911)African Architect; the Journal of the Association of Transvaal ArchitectsItem African Architect; the Journal of the Association of Transvaal Architects(Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1912)African Architect; the Journal of the Association of Transvaal ArchitectsItem African Architect; the Journal of the Association of Transvaal Architects(Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1913)African Architect; the Journal of the Association of Transvaal ArchitectsItem African Architect; a Journal devoted to the interests of the Architectural Profession in South Africa(Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1914)African Architect; a Journal devoted to the interests of the Architectural Profession in South AfricaItem Country Life in South Africa with which is incorporated "The African Architect"(Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1915)Country Life in South Africa with which is incorporated "The African Architect"Item South African Architectural Record(Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1916)South African Architectural RecordItem South African Architectural Record(Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1917)South African Architectural RecordItem South African Architectural Record(Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1918)South African Architectural RecordItem South African Architectural Record(Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1919)South African Architectural RecordItem South African Architectural Record(Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1920)South African Architectural RecordItem South African Architectural Record(Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1921)South African Architectural RecordItem South African Architectural Record(Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1922)South African Architectural RecordItem South African Architectural Record(Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1923)South African Architectural RecordItem South African Architectural Record(Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1924)South African Architectural JournalItem South African Architectural Record(Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1925)South African Architectural RecordItem What is Architecture?(Association of Transvaal Architects, the Natal Institute of Architects and the South African Institute of Quantity Surveyors, 1925-06) Martienssen, Rex DFor music being purely in time, and architecture being purely in space, each is convertable into the other, and that which in music is expressed by means of harmonious intervals of time and pitch, successfully may be translated into corresponding intervals of architectural void and solid, height and width.Item South African Architectural Record(Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1926)South African Architectural RecordItem South African Architectural Record(Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1927)South African Architectural RecordItem Modern Architecture, with particular reference to shop design(The Association of Transvaal Architects, the Natal Institute of Architects and the South African Institute of Quantity Surveyors, 1927-09) Martienssen, Rex D"The old order changeth," and architecture is undergoing a slow transition; slow because a bouleversement in architecture is almost impossible, but nevertheless steady, as viewpoints change, and requirements limit the scope of the architect in his practice.