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Theses and Dissertations (Town and Regional Planning)
Recent Submissions
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Ragoasha, Matsubu Valentine
(University of Pretoria, 2020-12-02)
South Africa’s cities face numerous challenges relating to socio-economic and spatial inequalities, institutional deficiencies, and fault-lines in the planning system. Despite the manifold strides made by the democratic ...
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Chilwane, Lethabo Ingrid Semakaleng
(University of Pretoria, 2021)
Population growth, climate change and increasing water consumption threaten the
availability and quality of municipal water. In South Africa, climate change
accelerates drought conditions leading to severe water shortages ...
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Gibberd, Amanda Elizabeth
(University of Pretoria, 2021)
South Africa has a deeply entrenched relationship with the global Disability Rights Movement and the social model of disability, the roots of which were nascent as early as 1964 in Nelson Mandela’s Rivonia Trial speech. ...
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Ntiwane, Bongane Cornelius
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
South Africa, as a country and especially within the context of its geographies, remains
scarred by the past apartheid regime. As a result, the country is still struggling with the
problems of spatial transformation and ...
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Pieterse, Amy
(University of Pretoria, 2020)
The message that climate change response should be central to municipal planning is clearly communicated in policy, science, and practice; and given that municipal planning is the core function of local government, the ...
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Hutu, Trymore
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
PPS (2014) indicated that public spaces are built environmental settings that offer social, economic and environmental benefits to the space users. Different types of public spaces offer social, economic and environmental ...
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Hutu, Trymore
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
PPS (2014) indicated that public spaces are built environmental settings that offer social, economic and environmental benefits to the space users. Different types of public spaces offer social, economic and environmental ...
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Essah, Kweku Ampiah
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
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Adegeye, Adefemi Olayide
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
For the past two decades in South Africa, there have been various efforts aimed at
restructuring the distorted and fragmented spatial form, re-integrating the fragmented spaces
and communities and creating sustainable ...
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Tesner-Smith, Desirée
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
The study had a dual objective, namely 1) to add to the body of knowledge of South African planning stories and 2) to consider the possibility of a narratology of planning.
The study considered the role of narrative in ...
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Mariette, Niclesse Niclesse
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
Following the redevelopment of one of Pretoria’s most prominent social spaces, Hatfield Square, the character of the area surrounding the space is noticeably altered resulting in an apparent change in the perceptions of ...
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De Beer, Stephanus Francois
(University of Pretoria, 2017)
In his thesis, Mother bird hovering over the city: space, spirituality
and a community-based urban praxis, the promovendus adopted a
trans-disciplinary, praxis-approach to consider participatory, critical and
liberationist ...
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Van Huyssteen, Elsona
(University of Pretoria, 2018-03-31)
The thesis, Being, becoming and contributing in (and through) Planning, provides an overview and reflection on an innovative narrative-based enquiry into personal and professional work-life experiences of planning ...
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Mirembe, Jennifer
(University of Pretoria, 2017)
ICT and related e-technologies have had an enormous impact, not only on people and people’s spaces in all parts of the world, but also on urban space dynamics, the form and function of urban spaces and urban space networks ...
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Sekoboto, Lerato Motingoane
(University of Pretoria, 2016)
The Reconstruction and Development Programme and the People's Housing Process
were both introduced in an effort to address the existing challenge of providing
housing for low income earners in South Africa. Both these ...
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Ndala-ka Dlamini, Nathaniel
(University of Pretoria, 2017)
The aim of this study was to establish whether or not conflict existed in residential sectional title schemes and if so the causes thereof. Residential sectional title properties, unlike conventional residential freehold ...
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Moonsammy, Subhatri Tholsie
(University of Pretoria, 2017)
The 21st century calls for new approaches to urban planning theory and practice, in the context of failed but unchanging approaches to planning (UN-Habitat, 2009). What is increasingly clear is that there is an urgent need ...
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Lekunya, Kelebone
(University of Pretoria, 2017)
Rapid and sustainable economic growth and progressive social and spatial development through industrial development, has been a persistent challenge for the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). A commonly held "solution" to this ...
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Sebola, Kgomotso Jackson Phillip
(2016)
Planning in the 21st century finds itself hesitant in providing hope for a better future. The foregoing is due to complex and dynamic process such as urbanisation and globalisation that have created an unknown and uncertain ...
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LEKUNYA, KELEBONE
(University Of Pretoria, 2016)
Rapid and sustainable economic growth and progressive social and spatial development through industrial development, has been a persistent challenge for the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). A commonly held “solution” to this ...
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