• What could improve or hinder the implementation of spatial planning towards environmental justice? 

  Ntiwane, Bongane Cornelius; Coetzee, Johnny (Routledge, 2021)

  The failure of spatial planning implementation (SPI) in local municipalities contributes to the growing call for spatial planning reform and overhaul. Some barriers and enablers to the implementation of spatial planning ...
• The effect of housing type on householders' self-reported participation in recycling 

  Du Toit, Jacques Louis; Wagner, Claire (Emerald, 2020-12)

  PURPOSE : The purpose of this article is to examine the effect of housing type, relative to demographics, on householders' self-reported recycling across low-, medium- and high-density housing without recycling facilities ...
• 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. ...
• Inclusive public space : rethinking practices of mitigation, adaptation and transformation 

  Landman, Karina (Springer, 2020-09)

  Recent decades have brought about an increased focus on public space as part of building more inclusive and sustainable neighbourhoods and cities. Not only are the development of public space highlighted as important in ...
• 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 ...
• Climate change adaptation mainstreaming in the planning instruments of two South African local municipalities 

  Pieterse, Amy; Du Toit, Jacques Louis; Van Niekerk, Willemien (Routledge, 2021)

  This article reflects on the role of urban planning in climate change adaptation and the role of planning instruments in facilitating the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation. An analytical framework is introduced ...
• Towards deliberative democracy through the democratic governance and design of public spaces in the South African capital city, Tshwane 

  Makakavhule, Kundani; Landman, Karina (Springer, 2020-09)

  Many political, economic and social transformations have occurred in South Africa since the first democratic elections in 1994. The country has made significant efforts in trying to establish and rebrand its cities as ...
• A qualitative study of interdisciplinary near-peer research mentoring in professional training 

  Wagner, Claire; Du Toit, Jacques Louis (American Psychological Association, 2019-02)

  Although literature on interdisciplinary training has shown some promise for enabling students to cross disciplinary barriers, little is known about how being mentors to near-peers in other disciplines could initiate ...
• Land (and settlement) reform post-expropriation : shifting the focus to the 'sustainable human settlement development' imperative 

  Oranje, Mark; Van Wyk, Jeannie (University of the Free State, 2019)

  Land reform in South Africa has paid less attention to the creation of fair and viable postapartheid urban human settlements than it has to rural land reform. While expropriation of land with or without compensation will ...
• City-making from below : a call for communities of resistance and reconstruction 

  De Beer, Stephan F.; Oranje, Mark (University of the Free State, 2019)

  This article laments the exclusion of small, local communities, voices and visions, from participating in making the city. It makes a case for ‘small communities’ practising resistance and reconstruction in multiple ways ...
• 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 ...
• Suitability indicators to assess specific site, risk-based irrigation water quality 

  Du Plessis, H.M.; Annandale, J.G. (John George), 1959-; Benade, N. (South African Irrigation Institute, 2019-10)

  In the first of this two-paper series, we introduced readers to a newly developed electronic Decision Support System (DSS) that helps the user to assess the fitness for use of irrigation water (du Plessis et. al., ...
• 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 ...
• Developing research skills for the future workplace through interdisciplinary near-peer mentoring 

  Wagner, Claire; Du Toit, Jacques Louis (Routledge, 2020)

  Experiential learning is touted as an effective way of imparting research skills. This suggests that master’s students undergoing training in research psychology should be exposed to managing projects and supervising ...
• The contribution of shopping center development to happy cities 

  Essah, Kweku Ampiah (University of Pretoria, 2018)

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• The effect of a weekly comingled kerbside collection service on household recycling in a gated community in Pretoria, South Africa 

  Du Toit, Jacques Louis; Wagner, Claire (MDPI Publishing, 2018-04-17)

  Gated communities is a growing phenomenon in South Africa and abroad. The enclosed and private nature of gated communities poses certain challenges to recycling. Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour, we examine the ...
• 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 ...
• Environmental justice in the context of planning 

  Ntiwane, Bongane Cornelius; Coetzee, Johnny (University of the Free State, Department of Town and Regional Planning, 2018)

  In recent years, environmental justice has been central in many Social Sciences discourses; yet it has gained limited recognition in planning, particularly in spatial planning theories. The extent of environmental justice ...

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