• Future proofing health in response to climate change and rapid urbanisation in Africa 

  Kamkuemah, Monika; Ayo-Yusuf, Olalekan Abdulwahab; Oni, Tolu (BMJ Publishing Group, 2024-04)

  Community oriented, integrated climate and health systems should include indigenous knowledge systems and capitalise on Africa’s young demographic, harnessing mobile technology to unleash a cadre of youth community climate ...
• The efficacy of roof-based adaptations to reduce heat stress exposure in informal dwellings 

  Viljoen, Ethan; Hugo, Jan (University of the Free State, 2024-12-10)

  While climate change represents a universal threat to the sustainable growth efforts globally, its impacts are not experienced equally with marginalised population groups, especially informal settlement residents, being ...
• Ecological and societal trade-offs of living a good, safe and green life in urban ecological enclaves 

  Schoulund, Dario; Breed, Christina A.; Pasgaard, Jens C.; Pasgaard, Maya (Elsevier, 2024-12)

  This paper provides a critical cross-disciplinary perspective on urban ecological enclaves as attempts to fulfill the dream of a good life in a safe and green urban context. We take advantage of fertilizing fields of ...
• A conceptual analysis of the public health-architecture nexus within rapidly developing informal urban contexts 

  Patrick, Sean Mark; Hugo, Jan; Sonnendecker, Paul Walter; Shirinde, Joyce (Frontiers Media, 2024-01)

  BACKGROUND: The interactions between people and places can have a significant impact on the wellbeing of individuals, particularly in warm, arid countries such as South Africa. Coupled to this are the various risks that ...
• Strategies for promoting and preserving urban landscape identity through public participation amidst urban renewal changes : the case of Kisumu City, Kenya 

  K'oyoo, Edwin Oluoch (University of the Free State, 2024-06)

  Urban renewal to revitalise urban realms within cities should aim to reinvigorate landscape identity, in order to maintain the city's uniqueness and distinctiveness. The concern in urban renewal projects is how to sustain ...
• Urban digital twin-based solution using geospatial information for solid waste management 

  Cardenas-Leon, Ivan; Koeva, Mila; Nourian, Pirouz; Davey, Calayde Aenis (Elsevier, 2024-11)

  With over 2 billion metric tons generated annually, global solid waste production has severe environmental consequences. Although it is not a primary Sustainable Development Goal, effective solid waste management (SWM) is ...
• 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)

  Please read abstract in the article.
• 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 ...

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