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Research Articles (Town and Regional Planning): Recent submissions
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(University of the Free State, Department of Town and Regional Planning, 2018)Urban Design in South Africa as a formal profession has a relatively short history. However, in practice, there have been many examples of what must be considered both good and bad Urban Design. There have also been ...
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(Routledge, 2019)For the past two decades, the South African government, through various initiatives, attempted to undo the apartheid spatial landform existing in the country. Only in 2013 was the real ‘spatial justice turn in planning’ ...
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(MDPI Publishing, 2017-11-18)Although social factors affecting recycling have been widely researched, the effect of spatial and physical factors posed by medium-density housing, such as townhouses, is less understood. Using the Theory of Planned ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-05-29)BACKGROUND : During the past few years, with the increase in air traffic and the expansion of airports, very few industries had such a large spatial development and movement impact as that of airport-related clusters or ...
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(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018-02)South Africa is characterised by high levels of crime and fear of crime that manifests in various ways at a local community level. The fear of crime is influenced by levels of social and physical disorder and the nature ...
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The sub-national economic and spatial development impacts of AGOA in Lesotho : an exploratory study (University of the Free State, Department of Town and Regional Planning, 2017)This exploratory study investigates the sub-national economic and spatial development outcomes of the African Growth and Opportunity Act, 2000 (AGOA) in Lesotho. The findings reveal that the settlements where the ...
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(Sage, 2017)What methodologies do we write about, and what type of research do we actually conduct and build upon in planning? Since the 1980s, planners have argued for more qualitative research within an interpretative paradigm. A ...
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(University of the Free State, 2016)Recent debates have highlighted trends towards the privatisation of public space and the incorporation of increased security measures to safeguard users. Literature has also emphasised the move away from the traditional ...
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(Routledge, 2018)Gated communities have grown significantly in many parts of the world, including South Africa. This paper focuses on gated communities in the City of Tshwane. The discussion is based on a study carried out between 2013 and ...
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(Routledge, 2016-05)The 2010 Western Cape graduate destination survey utilised a sequential mixedmode design in which an initial web survey was augmented with an equivalent telephonic survey. This article examines mode effect in the Western ...
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(University of the Free State, Department of Town and Regional Planning, 2014)Medium-density mixed-housing is promoted in various countries as a means toward creating more sustainable settlements. It does, however, require residents to live closer to their neighbours, share outdoor spaces, and be ...
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(University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 2014)Despite the urgent need for local economic development in South Africa, Local Economic Development (LED) as area of professional endeavour/activity has largely failed to live up to this need. In this article, an alternative ...
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(University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 2014)Despite rapid advances and sizeable middle-class formation in many African countries, development planning is still frustrated by the absence of reliable, relevant and up-to-date data. Even though South Africa is in a ...
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(Sage, 2014)With a new planning system taking shape, and a new Bill of Rights embodied in a transformative Constitution having been introduced in South Africa in 1994, this article grapples with the dual questions as to whether the ...
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(AOSIS OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11)Recent developments in South Africa in the field of planning, the domain of plans, and the world of planners, would suggest that planning and plans are viewed in a positive light, the local planning profession is in good ...
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(Springer, 2014-03)Gated communities have long been seen as a rational response to rising crime levels, yet very little is known about the extent to which residing in a gated community actually reduces an individuals’ risk of criminal ...
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(Routledge, 2014)Current literature proposes several strategies for improving response rates to student evaluation surveys. Graduate destination surveys pose the difficulty of tracing graduates years later when their contact details may ...
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(Sasol Library, University of the Free State, 2012-05)This article discusses the way in which the Department of Town and Regional Planning at the University of Pretoria is using three sets of projects in which it has participated over the past twelve years in revising its ...
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(Sasol Library, University of the Free State, 2012)This article discusses the way in which the Department of Town and Regional Planning at the University of Pretoria is using three sets of projects in which it has participated over the past twelve years in revising its ...
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(Sasol Library, University of the Free State, 2012-12)In South Africa, the government’s transformation process, which effectively started in 1994, not only resulted in a new democracy, a new governmental dispensation or a ‘new South Africa’, but it also spearheaded a ...
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