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Browsing Research Articles (Architecture) by UP Author "Breed, Christina A."
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K'oyoo, Edwin Oluoch; Breed, Christina A. (University of the Free State, 2023-12)Urban renewal is undertaken to respond to the physical deterioration of built forms in postcolonial Africa, with renewal works affecting current cities’ identities. Globalisation trends have cities striving to be unique, ...
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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 ...
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Breed, Christina A.; Morelli, Agata; Pirk, Christian Walter Werner; Sole, Catherine L.; Du Toit, Marie J.; Cilliers, Sarel S. (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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Brom, Peta; Engemann, Kristine; Breed, Christina A.; Pasgaard, Maya; Onaolapo, Titilope; Svenning, Jens-Christian (MDPI, 2023-02-04)Multifunctional green infrastructure, a key component of compact sustainable cities, is challenged by the pressures associated with rapid urbanization. In this paper, we present a method that uses remote sensing, GIS ...
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Breed, Christina A.; Du Plessis, Tania; Engemann, Kristine; Pauleit, Stephan; Pasgaard, Maya (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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Botes, Karen; Breed, Christina A. (University of Free State, 2021-12)Green wall systems have greatly advanced over the past few decades and hold important potential for the future in light of predicted urban population growth, densification, and climate change. This article provides a brief ...
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Breed, Christina A.; Cilliers, Sarel S.; Fisher, Roger C. (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015-09)The importance accorded to green infrastructure is related to sociocultural values, which also affect the social production of ecosystem services. The literature distinguishes four categories of ecosystem services to be ...
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Botes, Karen; Breed, Christina A. (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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Breed, Christina A.; Engemann, Kristine; Pasgaard, Maya (Springer, 2024)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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Van der Walt, Martine; Berner, Jacques M.; Breed, Christina A. (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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