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Architecture: Recent submissions
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(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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(Emerald, 2024)PURPOSE – The adverse impacts of climate change coupled with rapid informal urbanization in the Southern African region are increasing the vulnerability of already sensitive population groups. Consequently, these urban ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)On a once vacant site in Arcadia next to the heart of the Pretoria CBD now lies a series of buildings that integrate the public realm of the city with an intricate system of a distinctive discipline - architecture. This ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)This research study delves into the heart of Pretoria's Central Business District, exploring the dynamic world of informal trading scenarios through the lens of interior architecture. The research unveils the intricate ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-07-24)In the coming decades, Sub-Saharan Africa’s urban growth is expected to be the highest globally (Dodman, D et al. 2017). These small to medium sized cities in Africa will experience rapid growth, more so than in urban ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-09-29)Urban parks are found in cities, and cities happen to be significant climate change contributors, accounting for 70% of emissions of greenhouse gases, this puts urban parks in a susceptible position of bearing the burden ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Despite the radical political transformation promised in the democratic elections of 1994, the people of South Africa remain adversely affected by the socio-spatial legacies of a segregated urban landscape (Ballard 2021). ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Heritage places and architecture in the city of Tshwane are notoriously undervalued and misused. These buildings are at risk of being lost due to a lack of public knowledge and legislative protection. Losing these places ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-12-01)This research investigates the experiences of two prominent South African initiatives, Guga S'Thebe, and Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading (VPUU), to extract key lessons for future Public Interest Design (PID) ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-11-30)Smart city development and data-driven urban management consider urban technologies to revolutionise how cities are managed, constructed and developed. This research study considers one such urban technology, namely utilising ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-07-24)In accordance with Low’s Architecture in Africa: Situated Modern and the production of locality, it is highlighted that “the absence of a progressive and advanced construction industry” finds its proportional relations ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Individuals living with impairments (ILWI) represent one of the most marginalised demographics within societies. The inevitability that nearly everyone, at some point in their lives, will experience a temporary or prolonged ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-07-26)South Africa and the rest of the world are not making satisfactory progress in addressing many of the issues listed by the United Nations in their 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, namely those relating to hunger ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-12)The need for food security within informal settlements in South Africa and the world is crucial due to the increase of famine globally. Traditional leafy vegetables offer solutions towards food security in rural communities ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-09-24)Within the South African Human Settlement context there is a growing need for socio-economic development and infrastructure improvement. Social capital, community integration, the local economy, and levels of education are ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)In spite of significant political changes in the nation, the population of South Africa continues to suffer from the enduring consequences of a segregated urban environment, where architecture served as a tool of oppression ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-12-01)Research Report: By investigating the mechanisms behind environmentally sustainable construction technologies, designers and other critical stakeholders could gain a more comprehensive, holistic understanding of the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-11)The challenge of spatial transformation remains a key concern in the City of Tshwane’s (COT) reimagining of spatial access and agency. The combination of significant highway construction, inadequate development and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-07-26)Urban migration has resulted in population growth in cities and so has the rise in infrastructural developments that accommodate it. South Africa, one of the most urbanised countries in Africa, has 67.85% of its ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)There is a gap for the documentation of heritage interiors in Tshwane. Together with heritage interiors, the value of the modern movement built fabric is also underrepresented. In the past, various conservation issues have ...
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