• How can “smart cities” thinking benefit urban planning and development in South Africa? Learning from international smart city approaches 

  Ragoasha, Matsubu Valentine (University of Pretoria, 2020-12-02)

  South Africa’s cities face numerous challenges relating to socio-economic and spatial inequalities, institutional deficiencies, and fault-lines in the planning system. Despite the manifold strides made by the democratic ...
• Urban household uptake of water sensitive urban design measures : a comparative exploratory survey across the cities of Cape Town and Tshwane 

  Chilwane, Lethabo Ingrid Semakaleng (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  Population growth, climate change and increasing water consumption threaten the availability and quality of municipal water. In South Africa, climate change accelerates drought conditions leading to severe water shortages ...
• Universally accessible public transport systems: experiences with implementation in the thirteen integrated public transport network municipalities 

  Gibberd, Amanda Elizabeth (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  South Africa has a deeply entrenched relationship with the global Disability Rights Movement and the social model of disability, the roots of which were nascent as early as 1964 in Nelson Mandela’s Rivonia Trial speech. ...
• Reshaping spatial planning paradigm in an attempt to achieve environmental justice in South Africa 

  Ntiwane, Bongane Cornelius (University of Pretoria, 2019)

  South Africa, as a country and especially within the context of its geographies, remains scarred by the past apartheid regime. As a result, the country is still struggling with the problems of spatial transformation and ...
• Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation into Municipal Planning: Lessons from two South African Cases 

  Pieterse, Amy (University of Pretoria, 2020)

  The message that climate change response should be central to municipal planning is clearly communicated in policy, science, and practice; and given that municipal planning is the core function of local government, the ...
• The perceptions and experiences of residents towards different types of public spaces (a case study of Duncan village) 

  Hutu, Trymore (University of Pretoria, 2018)

  PPS (2014) indicated that public spaces are built environmental settings that offer social, economic and environmental benefits to the space users. Different types of public spaces offer social, economic and environmental ...
• The perceptions and experiences of residents towards different types of public spaces (a case study of Duncan village) 

  Hutu, Trymore (University of Pretoria, 2018)

  PPS (2014) indicated that public spaces are built environmental settings that offer social, economic and environmental benefits to the space users. Different types of public spaces offer social, economic and environmental ...
• The contribution of shopping center development to happy cities 

  Essah, Kweku Ampiah (University of Pretoria, 2018)

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• Exploring the fragments of spatial justice in an attempt to promote spatially just development in South African urban regions 

  Adegeye, Adefemi Olayide (University of Pretoria, 2018)

  For the past two decades in South Africa, there have been various efforts aimed at restructuring the distorted and fragmented spatial form, re-integrating the fragmented spaces and communities and creating sustainable ...
• Towards a narratology of planning - stories of a South African gold mining town 

  Tesner-Smith, Desirée (University of Pretoria, 2019)

  The study had a dual objective, namely 1) to add to the body of knowledge of South African planning stories and 2) to consider the possibility of a narratology of planning. The study considered the role of narrative in ...
• Conversations on conversion : the Hatfield Square case study 

  Mariette, Niclesse Niclesse (University of Pretoria, 2018)

  Following the redevelopment of one of Pretoria’s most prominent social spaces, Hatfield Square, the character of the area surrounding the space is noticeably altered resulting in an apparent change in the perceptions of ...
• Mother bird, Hovering over the city : space, spirituality & a community-based urban praxis 

  De Beer, Stephanus Francois (University of Pretoria, 2017)

  In his thesis, Mother bird hovering over the city: space, spirituality and a community-based urban praxis, the promovendus adopted a trans-disciplinary, praxis-approach to consider participatory, critical and liberationist ...
• Being, becoming and contributing in (and through) Planning 

  Van Huyssteen, Elsona (University of Pretoria, 2018-03-31)

  The thesis, Being, becoming and contributing in (and through) Planning, provides an overview and reflection on an innovative narrative-based enquiry into personal and professional work-life experiences of planning ...
• A meta-perspective on the dialogues on emerging information and communication technology (ICT) and the impact thereof on people, space and planning 

  Mirembe, Jennifer (University of Pretoria, 2017)

  ICT and related e-technologies have had an enormous impact, not only on people and people’s spaces in all parts of the world, but also on urban space dynamics, the form and function of urban spaces and urban space networks ...
• The extent to which government provided housing compared to self-help housing empower or further disempower poor communities 

  Sekoboto, Lerato Motingoane (University of Pretoria, 2016)

  The Reconstruction and Development Programme and the People's Housing Process were both introduced in an effort to address the existing challenge of providing housing for low income earners in South Africa. Both these ...
• Analysis of conflict in managing sectional title properties 

  Ndala-ka Dlamini, Nathaniel (University of Pretoria, 2017)

  The aim of this study was to establish whether or not conflict existed in residential sectional title schemes and if so the causes thereof. Residential sectional title properties, unlike conventional residential freehold ...
• An insider-outsider's exploration of planning knowledges roles uses and construction in a post-1994 metropolitan setting : eThekwini Municipality 

  Moonsammy, Subhatri Tholsie (University of Pretoria, 2017)

  The 21st century calls for new approaches to urban planning theory and practice, in the context of failed but unchanging approaches to planning (UN-Habitat, 2009). What is increasingly clear is that there is an urgent need ...
• Exploring the sub-national spatial and economic development impacts of the African Growth and Opportunity Act 2000 (AGOA) in Lesotho 

  Lekunya, Kelebone (University of Pretoria, 2017)

  Rapid and sustainable economic growth and progressive social and spatial development through industrial development, has been a persistent challenge for the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). A commonly held "solution" to this ...
• Exploring the sub-national spatial and economic development impacts of the African growth and opportunity act (agoa) in Lesotho 

  LEKUNYA, KELEBONE (University Of Pretoria, 2016)

  Rapid and sustainable economic growth and progressive social and spatial development through industrial development, has been a persistent challenge for the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). A commonly held “solution” to this ...
• Investigating diversity in the function of shelter 

  Dlamini, Sizwile Nelisiwe (University of Pretoria, 2015)

  Resilience is the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganise while undergoing change so as to retain essentially the same function, structure, identity and feedback. As a concept, resilience is used by various ...

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