The Jozi My Jozi Gateway Project treats the city’s entry points as giant canvases, not just traffic infrastructure. Placemaking is where the engineering plans meet street soul - cleaning, lighting and fixing what’s broken, then layering on art, colour and stories that say: you’ve arrived in Jozi, not anywhere else. 

At each gateway we work with artists, residents, commuters, precinct managers and the City to co-design spaces that feel safer, brighter and worth lingering in. Murals, sculptures, street furniture, landscaping, solar lighting and CCTV are all designed as one integrated experience, shifting gateways from no-go zones to bold welcome mats. 

This is creative placemaking with teeth: practical upgrades plus powerful symbols that change how people feel about coming into town. As more gateways flip from neglected to iconic, a new mental map of Jozi starts to form - one where the inner city is legible, loved and proudly claimed by the people who move through it every day.