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Browsing Research Articles (Town and Regional Planning) by Type "Article"
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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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(Sasol Library, University of the Free State, 2008-11)This article discusses the City Improvement District as a recent phenomenon in urban South Africa. The reason for doing so stems from a lack of basic information on the concept in the local literature. The findings, based ...
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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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(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, 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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(Sasol Library, University of the Free State, 2012-12)Gated communities are considered by many South Africans as a necessity – a place to stay in a safer environment in the context of high crime rates. At the same time, these developments can also challenge planning and ...
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(Sasol Library, University of the Free State, 2010-05)South African cities have changed tremendously over the past 50 years. Alongside growing urbanisation, people have moved further apart or closer to each other, influenced by the reigning ideologies and policies of the past ...
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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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(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: ...
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(Sasol Library, University of the Free State, 2007-05)This article raises the question whether spatial integration is socially sustainable in a South African context. This is an important question given that settlements remain socially unsustainable despite several years of ...
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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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(Sasol Library, University of the Free State, 2010-05)Planning knowledge is increasingly contested while publication pressure on supervisors and their students is mounting. Given these challenges, to what extent has the methodological rigour of South African master's and ...
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(Sasol Library, University of the Free State, 2010-05)This article reviews the various attempts at national spatial development planning that have been introduced in South Africa over the past eighty years. It demonstrates that, despite the ostensible support for national ...
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(Sasol Library, University of the Free State, 2011-12)In this article, it is argued that South Africa's post-1994 dream is marked by a tension between servicing and transformation - mutually supporting, but potentially also divergent set of intentions, processes and outcomes. ...
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(Sasol Library, University of the Free State, 2010-05)Since the government transformation in 1994, various efforts have been made in South Africa to institute a developmental local government system to facilitate and enhance growth and development in all sectors of society ...
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(University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 2014)Despite rapid advances and sizeable middle-class formation in many African countries, development planning is still frustrated by the absence of reliable, relevant and up-to-date data. Even though South Africa is in a ...
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(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 ...
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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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(Sasol Library, University of the Free State, 2012)This article discusses the way in which the Department of Town and Regional Planning at the University of Pretoria is using three sets of projects in which it has participated over the past twelve years in revising its ...
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(Sasol Library, University of the Free State, 2012-05)This article discusses the way in which the Department of Town and Regional Planning at the University of Pretoria is using three sets of projects in which it has participated over the past twelve years in revising its ...
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