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Browsing Research Articles (Town and Regional Planning) by Issue Date
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(University of the Free State, Department of Town and Regional Planning, 2014)Medium-density mixed-housing is promoted in various countries as a means toward creating more sustainable settlements. It does, however, require residents to live closer to their neighbours, share outdoor spaces, and be ...
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(Routledge, 2014)Current literature proposes several strategies for improving response rates to student evaluation surveys. Graduate destination surveys pose the difficulty of tracing graduates years later when their contact details may ...
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(Springer, 2014-03)Gated communities have long been seen as a rational response to rising crime levels, yet very little is known about the extent to which residing in a gated community actually reduces an individuals’ risk of criminal ...
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(AOSIS OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11)Recent developments in South Africa in the field of planning, the domain of plans, and the world of planners, would suggest that planning and plans are viewed in a positive light, the local planning profession is in good ...
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(University of the Free State, 2016)Recent debates have highlighted trends towards the privatisation of public space and the incorporation of increased security measures to safeguard users. Literature has also emphasised the move away from the traditional ...
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(Routledge, 2016-05)The 2010 Western Cape graduate destination survey utilised a sequential mixedmode design in which an initial web survey was augmented with an equivalent telephonic survey. This article examines mode effect in the Western ...
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The sub-national economic and spatial development impacts of AGOA in Lesotho : an exploratory study (University of the Free State, Department of Town and Regional Planning, 2017)This exploratory study investigates the sub-national economic and spatial development outcomes of the African Growth and Opportunity Act, 2000 (AGOA) in Lesotho. The findings reveal that the settlements where the ...
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(Sage, 2017)What methodologies do we write about, and what type of research do we actually conduct and build upon in planning? Since the 1980s, planners have argued for more qualitative research within an interpretative paradigm. A ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-05-29)BACKGROUND : During the past few years, with the increase in air traffic and the expansion of airports, very few industries had such a large spatial development and movement impact as that of airport-related clusters or ...
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(MDPI Publishing, 2017-11-18)Although social factors affecting recycling have been widely researched, the effect of spatial and physical factors posed by medium-density housing, such as townhouses, is less understood. Using the Theory of Planned ...
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(Routledge, 2018)Gated communities have grown significantly in many parts of the world, including South Africa. This paper focuses on gated communities in the City of Tshwane. The discussion is based on a study carried out between 2013 and ...
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(University of the Free State, Department of Town and Regional Planning, 2018)Urban Design in South Africa as a formal profession has a relatively short history. However, in practice, there have been many examples of what must be considered both good and bad Urban Design. There have also been ...
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(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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(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018-02)South Africa is characterised by high levels of crime and fear of crime that manifests in various ways at a local community level. The fear of crime is influenced by levels of social and physical disorder and the nature ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Routledge, 2019)For the past two decades, the South African government, through various initiatives, attempted to undo the apartheid spatial landform existing in the country. Only in 2013 was the real ‘spatial justice turn in planning’ ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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