• 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 ...
• Changing public spaces and urban resilience in the City of Tshwane, South Africa 

  Landman, Karina; Nel, Darren (Routledge, 2022)

  The City of Tshwane has experienced significant political, socio-economic and spatial changes. The lives and daily use patterns of different people in the city, as well as public spaces changed. While some people have ...
• The role of planners in public open space production in contemporary African cities : a reinjection of the social agenda in planning practice 

  Makakavhule, Kundani; Hill, Danielle (Routledge, 2022)

  African cities face challenges of delivering quality public open spaces within set time frames, under constrained budgets, varying levels of political will and professional capacity. These challenges in conjunction with ...
• The transformation and adaptive capacity of Tsweu Street in Mamelodi, City of Tshwane 

  Kgotse, Keletso; Landman, Karina (Routledge, 2022)

  Cities and neighbourhoods are changing rapidly. While rapid change is accepted, it is less clear how to understand and analyse change and steer it towards a more sustainable trajectory. This paper focuses on the transformation ...
• Planning for safe neighbourhoods in Namibia : a comparative case study of two low-income neighbourhoods in the city of Windhoek 

  Kandjinga, Laudika Jelufeni; Landman, Karina (Routledge, 2023)

  The safety of neighbourhoods remains challenging in developing countries due to several dynamics. This article explores the role of urban planning for safer neighbourhoods in two low-income neighbourhoods in the city of ...
• 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 ...
• Decolonizing public space in South Africa : from conceptualization to actualization 

  Landman, Karina; Makakavhule, Kundani (Routledge, 2021)

  Cities and public spaces are changing. Many movements such as ‘Black Lives Matter’ are questioning the meaning of public space in post-colonial contexts. This paper focusses on the decolonization of public space in South ...
• Integrated planning : towards a mutually inclusive approach to infrastructure planning and design 

  Schoulund, Dario; Amura, Carlos Alberto; Landman, Karina (MDPI, 2021-11-23)

  Increasingly independent fields of specialization, civil engineering, and urban design find themselves practicing in isolation on the same urban issues. The result surfaces on the relative qualities of public spaces: ...
• Rapidly changing cities : working with socio-ecological systems to facilitate transformation 

  Landman, Karina (Cogitatio Press, 2021-05)

  Cities across the world are changing rapidly. Driven by population growth, migration, economic decline in rural areas, political instabilities, and even more recently, the Covid‐19 pandemic, urban systems and spaces are ...
• 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 ...

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