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Theses and Dissertations (Town and Regional Planning): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)Different Engineering standard methods of measurement, developed in Africa throughout the last 30 years, are currently being used throughout the continent. Personal participation in various Civil Engineering projects in ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Resilience is the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganise while undergoing change so as to retain essentially the same function, structure, identity and feedback. As a concept, resilience is used by various ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)This study examines the relationship between crime and fear of crime, the built environment and its relationship to a sense of place in terms of the current planning and design initiatives to assist in the prevention of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)The concept of adjudication was introduced into the South African construction industry as a result of payment default, which is one of the crippling constraints to effective project delivery, as well as a major cause of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Cities are one of humankind s more enduring creations. Although historically cities have perished, urbanism has not; declining urban areas have either revived or new cities have taken their place. Additionally, with the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)For the purpose of this dissertation, a Gated Community is a form of a residential community or an estate of housing that is firmly controlled through gates or booms. Apart from residential areas, Gated Communities may ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Purpose: Many countries in the world are using Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) as an alternative procurement method for the delivery of public services. The research investigates the use of PPPs in South Africa, as a ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)More than half a century after the liberation of the majority of African countries, Africa is facing major socio-economic challenges including unemployment, slow economic growth and inequality. With waves of violent service ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1977)In this thesis, in which urban and regional planning in South Africa was treated as a complex language game with a past of over one and a half century, it was argued that radical changes in the context in which this game ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011)The occurrence of enclosed neighbourhoods has become a common phenomenon in South African cities from the early 1990’s as a direct impact of crime rates and the fear of crime. While the enclosure of neighbourhoods provide ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1997)Traditional historiographic research is challenged by the very nature of post-modernism which, in terms of one of its less radical viewpoints, views history not so much as truth-seeking, nor objective activity, but rather ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)In 2005, the city of Port Elizabeth, in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality (NMBM) of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, initiated an urban renewal project of its derelict city centre areas and the southern part ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-01-09)Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document.
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-11-09)Local Governments internationally are constantly challenged to provide resources for maintaining and improving urban areas. This study illustrates that South African Local Governments are struggling to provide the services ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-11-08)This study has its beginnings in the intriguing idea of how people think things are as opposed to the way things really are. This idea forms one of the central themes of the post-modern paradigm of knowledge that underlines ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-10-07)The thesis unpacks the transformation of urban planning in the municipalities of the Greater Pretoria region (now Tshwane) during 1992 to 2002, specifically within the context of the government transformation in South ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011)The majority of the existing urban areas in South Africa began as colonial centres. This study seeks to evaluate the role the Royal Engineers played in the development of the Cape Colony from 1806 until the acceptance of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-07-26)This study has a dual purpose. Firstly, it is aimed at determining the need for the effective management of outdoor information transfer as an important resource in the aesthetic environment. Effective management is seen ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)Current global agricultural practices are recognized as unsustainable. The increase in overall human population as well as the global trend of rural to urban migration, partially as a result of historically and continual ...
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