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Architecture: Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-11-30)This research paper delves into the pressing issue of transportation in Hatfield, with a primary focus on assessing the degree of self-reliance across different transportation modes. With Pretoria's population projected ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-09)Public spaces in the City of Tshwane, are spaces for social cohesion and knowledge exchange. However, the treatment of open greenspaces has been lacklustre in recent years, perpetuating the idea that closing them off to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-09)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 ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-07-24)Spatial inequality in urban regions of Gauteng, South Africa remains reminiscent of the apartheid era, with marginalized communities pushed to the peripheries, excluded from core socio-economic opportunities, and restricted ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)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 ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)The title "Marginal Praxis" in the context of facilitating refugee integration in The City of Tshwane implies a focus on an unconventional, innovative approach and actions to address the challenges and opportunities related ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-04-01)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 ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-07-27)The thesis explores the notion of hybrid tectonics in the context of contemporary African architecture, investigating the dynamic interplay between global influences and local traditions. Through an extensive analysis ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-11-29)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 ...
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(Elsevier, 2024-01)Plants are essential components of urban microclimates, as they can help mitigate some of the adverse effects of urbanisation, enhance environmental quality, and thus contribute to overall species well-being and the ...
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(Elsevier, 2023-11)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 ...
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(Springer, 2024-06)The systematic integration of green infrastructure (GI) concepts in urban planning shows promise to reduce environmental hazards; while creating sociocultural benefits. However, cities in sub-Saharan Africa face rapid ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-12-11)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 ...
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(UCL Press, 2023)The architectural history of healthcare in South Africa remains greatly understudied, as do the consequences of the 1918–19 Spanish Flu, which ravaged its population. Yet that pandemic had great consequences for South ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2022-12)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 ...
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(University of the Free State, 2023-06-27)Urban renewal undertaken to respond to physical deterioration and decay within cities resulted in various changes. The changes can impact on physical, socio-economic, and meaning aspects attached to various features, thus ...
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(MDPI, 2022-07-27)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 ...
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(3SMedia, 2022)Showcasing excellence, University of Pretoria final-year architecture student Wian Jordaan has been declared a regional winner in the 2022 Corobrik Student Architecture Awards, in addition to winning the Best Use of Clay ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)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 ...
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(IOP Publishing, 2022)In terms of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), sustainable cities and communities (SDG 11), combined with good health and wellbeing (SDG 3), are ...
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