Because of perceptions regarding safety, gated communities and the closing off of public routes has become common in South Africa. Observation shows that some architects respond to those restrictions more creatively than ...

The social, cultural and economic complexities of the situation in the Sudan is exposed in this paper.

This paper sets out to study the directions environmental developments in Greater Khartoum are taking. It attempts to assess contemporary architectural and planning practices in the region in terms of natural and economic ...

In this Statement dr Amira Osman discusses the major challenges in terms of housing delivery mechanisms and the influence on housing environments in South Africa.

In this paper we have adopted a novel approach to ‘housing for special needs’, redefining people with special needs philosophically, and using statistical analysis of the South African population to reinforce our argument. ...

A Response by dr Amira Osman to the article written by Gwendoline Wright titled: 'Dwelling in the city', commenting on pertinent issues of housing currently being debated.

This paper investigates how staff and students perceive housing at the Department of Architecture, Landscape and Interior Architecture, University of Pretoria, South Africa. The Department’s reputation is that of a strong ...