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Research Articles (Town and Regional Planning)
Recent Submissions
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Pieterse, Amy; Du Toit, Jacques Louis
(Elsevier, 2025-02)
This article is based on the study done to explore the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation into municipal planning The study used the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality and Thulamela Local Municipality as ...
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Harris, Marshallene; Oranje, Mark
(University of the Free State, 2024-06)
While a significant body of academic work has been compiled on the transformation of planning law since the end of apartheid, far less has been produced on the perceptions of practising planners of these new laws, and their ...
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Hill, Danielle
(Routledge, 2025)
The rapid proliferation of informal settlements in the twenty-first century has challenged the ways in which planners envision, design and think about urban development. While I acknowledge that planning in South Africa ...
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Landman, Karina; Nel, Darren
(Routledge, 2022)
The City of Tshwane has experienced significant political, socio-economic and spatial changes. The lives and daily use patterns of different people in the city, as well as public spaces changed. While some people have ...
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Makakavhule, Kundani; Hill, Danielle
(Routledge, 2022)
African cities face challenges of delivering quality public open spaces within set time frames, under constrained budgets, varying levels of political will and professional capacity. These challenges in conjunction with ...
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Kgotse, Keletso; Landman, Karina
(Routledge, 2022)
Cities and neighbourhoods are changing rapidly. While rapid change is accepted, it is less clear how to understand and analyse change and steer it towards a more sustainable trajectory. This paper focuses on the transformation ...
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Kandjinga, Laudika Jelufeni; Landman, Karina
(Routledge, 2023)
The safety of neighbourhoods remains challenging in developing countries due to several dynamics. This article explores the role of urban planning for safer neighbourhoods in two low-income neighbourhoods in the city of ...
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Landman, Karina; Makakavhule, Kundani
(Routledge, 2021)
Cities and public spaces are changing. Many movements such as ‘Black Lives Matter’ are questioning the meaning of public space in post-colonial contexts. This paper focusses on the decolonization of public space in South ...
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Schoulund, Dario; Amura, Carlos Alberto; Landman, Karina
(MDPI, 2021-11-23)
Increasingly independent fields of specialization, civil engineering, and urban design find themselves practicing in isolation on the same urban issues. The result surfaces on the relative qualities of public spaces: ...
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Oranje, Mark
(Cogitatio Press, 2021-05)
Planning was born in and of crisis. Given the multiple challenges facing the world, it may rightly be asked whether Planning
would not be willing and able to assist in taking these on. In this short commentary, it is ...
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Landman, Karina
(Cogitatio Press, 2021-05)
Cities across the world are changing rapidly. Driven by population growth, migration, economic decline in rural areas,
political instabilities, and even more recently, the Covid‐19 pandemic, urban systems and spaces are ...
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Ntiwane, Bongane Cornelius; Coetzee, Johnny
(Routledge, 2021)
The failure of spatial planning implementation (SPI) in local municipalities contributes to the growing call for spatial planning reform and overhaul. Some barriers and enablers to the implementation of spatial planning ...
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Du Toit, Jacques Louis; Wagner, Claire
(Emerald, 2020-12)
PURPOSE : The purpose of this article is to examine the effect of housing type, relative to demographics, on householders' self-reported recycling across low-, medium- and high-density housing without recycling facilities ...
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Landman, Karina
(Springer, 2020-09)
Recent decades have brought about an increased focus on public space as part of building more inclusive and sustainable neighbourhoods and cities. Not only are the development of public space highlighted as important in ...
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Pieterse, Amy; Du Toit, Jacques Louis; Van Niekerk, Willemien
(Routledge, 2021)
This article reflects on the role of urban planning in climate change adaptation and the role of planning instruments in facilitating the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation. An analytical framework is introduced ...
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Makakavhule, Kundani; Landman, Karina
(Springer, 2020-09)
Many political, economic and social transformations have occurred in South Africa since the first democratic elections in 1994. The country has made significant efforts in trying to establish and rebrand its cities as ...
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Wagner, Claire; Du Toit, Jacques Louis
(American Psychological Association, 2019-02)
Although literature on interdisciplinary training has shown some promise for enabling students to cross disciplinary barriers, little is known about how being mentors to near-peers in other disciplines could initiate ...
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Oranje, Mark; Van Wyk, Jeannie
(University of the Free State, 2019)
Land reform in South Africa has paid less attention to the creation of fair and viable postapartheid
urban human settlements than it has to rural land reform. While expropriation
of land with or without compensation will ...
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De Beer, Stephanus Francois; Oranje, Mark
(University of the Free State, 2019)
This article laments the exclusion of small, local communities, voices and visions,
from participating in making the city. It makes a case for ‘small communities’ practising
resistance and reconstruction in multiple ways ...
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Wagner, Claire; Du Toit, Jacques Louis
(Routledge, 2020)
Experiential learning is touted as an effective way of imparting research skills. This suggests that master’s students undergoing training in research psychology should be exposed to managing projects and supervising ...
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