• A balancing act:mediating brand and local authenticity in localised retail design 

  Khan, Zakkiya; Konigk, Raymund; Du Plessis, Chrisna (Springer, 2024-05)

  Retail design authenticity has seen global brands expressing a growing interest in unique as opposed to standardised expressions of store design. To express authenticity, global brands may opt for localised retail store ...
• Multilevel correlates of abdominal obesity in adolescents and youth living with HIV in peri-urban Cape Town, South Africa 

  Kamkuemah, Monika; Gausi, Blessings; Oni, Tulo; Middelkoop, Keren (Public Library of Science, 2023-01-24)

  BACKGROUND : Chronic non-communicable disease comorbidities are a major problem faced by people living with HIV (PLHIV). Obesity is an important factor contributing to such comorbidities and PLHIV face an elevated risk of ...
• Transdisciplinary approaches assessing unmanaged urban green spaces reveal benefits for biodiversity and people 

  Engemann, Kristine; Breed, Christina A.; Brom, Peta; Pasgaard, Maya (Springer, 2024-06)

  Rapid urbanization is projected for African cities at the cost of urban green space, which could jeopardize biodiversity and human benefits. Studies focusing specifically on human–green space relationships in the Global ...
• The blossoming of classical topomythopoiesis 

  Prinsloo, Johan Nel (Routledge, 2024)

  A cursory glance at Italian Renaissance gardens reveals that they are populated by the beings of classical mythology. Venus, Apollo, Pegasus, Hercules, … are frozen figures in stone that have come to characterise the ...
• Classical topomythopoiesis. survival of the pagan gods during the Christian Middle Ages 

  Prinsloo, Johan Nel (Routledge, 2023)

  The gardens of the Renaissance are well known for being populated by the gods and settings of Classical mythology — an iconographic tradition that originated in the cult sanctuaries of Ancient Greece and transplanted to ...
• Urban memory and identity weighed against economic investment in renewal projects : a case of Kisumu city, Kenya 

  K’oyoo, Edwin; Breed, Christina A. (University of the Free State, 2024)

  There have been limited efforts in using collective memory in representing public spaces and implementing urban renewal projects to maintain uniqueness. This article aims to investigate the role of urban landscape in ...
• Missionary architect Pieter Simon Djikstra and his Dutch works 

  Kuipers, Marieke; Clarke, Nicholas John (Stichting OpenAccess, 2023-06-15)

  In South Africa, the Dutch architect P.S. Dijkstra/ Dykstra (1884-1968) is considered an important innovator in Protestant church design. Yet his work gets barely a mention in Dutch historiography. His early twentieth-century ...
• Living walls : upscaling their performance as green infrastructure 

  Botes, Karen (University of Free State, 2024-06)

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• Architectural education with special reference to the University of Pretoria 

  Sandrock, Brian Allan Theodor (University of Pretoria, 1960)

  This thesis concerns the education of arci1itects, with one of its chosen objects to bring into focus a particular aspect of a broad contemporary problem - the reconciliation of technology and the spirit. Indeed it ...
• Food & the future : mapping food security for urban digital town 

  Loots (neé van Schalkwyk), Kylah-Brunhilde (University of Pretoria, 2023-08-01)

  Urban Digital Twins (UDTs) have huge potential to initiate change but are not yet mature enough to be useable since many aspects of cities, such as social fabric, still need to be integrated within the models. In response ...
• Topomythopoiesis : the expression and reception of classical mythology in gardens from antiquity to 1800 

  Prinsloo, Johan Nel (University of Pretoria, 2024-04-17)

  This thesis introduces ‘topomythopoiesis’ as a distinct genre of landscape place-making that deliberately evokes myths. A theoretical framework was developed to elucidate the relationship between myths and the gardens ...
• Diabetes and multiple long-term conditions : a review of our current global health challenge 

  Khunti, Kamlesh; Chudasama, Yogini V.; Gregg, Edward W.; Kamkuemah, Monika; Misra, Shivani; Suls, Jerry; Venkateshmurthy, Nikhil S.; Valabhji, Jonathan (American Diabetes Association, 2023-12)

  Use of effective treatments and management programs is leading to longer survival of people with diabetes. This, in combination with obesity, is thus contributing to a rise in people living with more than one condition, ...
• Citizen science beyond science : a collaborative approach for transformative sustainable development 

  Pasgaard, Maya; Breed, Christina A.; Heins, Maria; Knudsen, Linette; Brom, Peta; Schmidt, Astrid; Engemann, Kristine (Ubiquity Press, 2023-06-27)

  In this paper, we lean on experiences from South Africa as a point of departure for discussing the unrealized potentials and complications of applying collaborative, transformative citizen science (CS). We first show the ...
• Heat stress : adaptation measures in South African informal settlements 

  Hugo, Jan Marais (Ubiquity Press, 2023-01-12)

  Globally extreme weather events are experienced most acutely in cities. While formal settlements can respond to such events, informal settlements are often vulnerable and illprepared. Sub-Saharan Africa is rapidly ...
• A decision support tool for green infrastructure planning in the face of rapid urbanization 

  Brom, Peta; Engemann, Kristine; Breed, Christina A.; Pasgaard, Maya; Onaolapo, Titilope; Svenning, Jens-Christian (MDPI, 2023-02-04)

  Multifunctional green infrastructure, a key component of compact sustainable cities, is challenged by the pressures associated with rapid urbanization. In this paper, we present a method that uses remote sensing, GIS ...
• Capturing landscape identity in the context of urban renewal : the case of Kisumu City, Kenya 

  K'oyoo, Edwin Oluoch; Breed, Christina A. (University of the Free State, 2023-12)

  Urban renewal is undertaken to respond to the physical deterioration of built forms in postcolonial Africa, with renewal works affecting current cities’ identities. Globalisation trends have cities striving to be unique, ...
• African identity in architecture : Guiding principles for the architectural design of traditional health practices in Gauteng, South Africa 

  Molebatsi, John Kagiso (University of Pretoria, 2023-08)

  The practice of traditional medicine, in its various forms and to varying degrees, has always been an integral part of the majority of South African’s lives. Among indigenous people, the practice of traditional medicine ...
• Green infrastructure planning principles for improved decision-making at the site development design stage at the City of Tshwane 

  Du Plessis, Tania (University of Pretoria, 2023-12)

  Globally, researchers advocate the potential of green infrastructure applications to contribute to inclusive, safe and sustainable cities as captured by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal number 11. Socio-economic ...
• Use of photo-elicitation interviews to explore urban landscape identity in the context of urban renewal changes, a case of Kisumu City, Kenya 

  K'oyoo, Edwin Oluoch (University of Free State, 2023-12)

  Photo-elicitation interviews (PEIs) have been used in landscape studies with the aim of eliciting participant opinions through memories and feelings associated with images. PEI was used in this study to identify and ...
• Design Strategies for Informal Settlements towards Climate Change Adaptation in Eswatini 

  Ndlangamandla, Musawenkosi (University of Pretoria, 2023-10-31)

  Climate change holds potentially serious consequences for low-cost residential neighbourhoods. This implies a need to determine how these areas can be managed so that they have capacity to cope with and adjust to climate ...

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