Various strategies have been implemented in South Africa to negate historical spatial injustices, such as the Gautrain and Metrorail train systems. These systems are envisioned to facilitate geographic desegregation ...

Climate change is a global unsettling phenomenon that determines the prosperity of natural systems. It influences natural systems, posing risks to the health of living organisms and the socio-economic conditions they ...

In pursuit of contemporary and representative design informants for green open space in the City of Tshwane (CoT), this research paper examines three distinct green open spaces namely Burgers Park, Moja Gabedi, and Muckleneuk ...

This architectural master’s dissertation investigates the transformative potential of timber construction and regenerative architecture in the South African context, with a specific focus on the establishment of the School ...

Researchers increasingly consider the systematic integration of green infrastructure (GI) concepts in urban planning as an essential approach to tackle significant current and future challenges. Cities in sub-Saharan ...

This dissertation is an architectural exploration into informal waste picker upgrading, at the open green space between Atteridgeville Township and Lotus Gardens. The project is a community Buy Back Centre, designed following ...

The design of boundaries in architecture has a rich history that provides intellectual nourishment for a reconsideration of the relationships between city and nature, city street and building and the transitions within ...

Progress is required in response to how cities can support greater biodiversity. This calls for more research on how landscape designers can actively shape urban ecologies to deliver contextspecific empirical bases for ...

South Africa is currently facing a water crisis caused by a variety of factors. This includes insufficient water infrastructure maintenance and investment, recurrent droughts driven by climatic variation, inequities in ...

Since low-income and social housing are among the most vulnerable built environments to climate change, this article evaluates the energy performance of social housing in the context of enabling net-zero carbon social ...