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Browsing Research Articles (Town and Regional Planning) by Type "Postprint Article"
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Du Toit, Jacques Louis
(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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Adegeye, Adefemi; Coetzee, Johnny
(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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Du Toit, Jacques Louis; Kraak, Andre; Favish, Judy; Fletcher, Lizelle
(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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Makhale, Shonani; Landman, Karina
(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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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 ...
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Breetzke, Gregory Dennis; Landman, Karina; Cohn, Ellen G.
(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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Du Toit, Jacques Louis
(Taylor & Francis, 2010-03)
This article examines metropolitan government responses to homelessness in South Africa, including the context of responses, preparedness to respond, factors influencing responses, shelter locations, and homeless persons’ ...
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Du Toit, Jacques Louis; Boshoff, Nelius; Mariette, Niclesse
(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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Snyders, Elsa; Landman, Karina
(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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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 ...
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Van Wyk, Jeannie; Oranje, Mark
(Sage, 2014)
With a new planning system taking shape, and a new Bill of Rights embodied in a transformative
Constitution having been introduced in South Africa in 1994, this article grapples with the dual
questions as to whether the ...
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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 ...
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Faling, Willemien; Tempelhoff, Johann W.N.; Van Niekerk, Dewald
(Routledge, 2012-06)
In 2008 the South African National Disaster Management Centre commissioned a study into measures taken by local municipalities to plan for climate change. Two areas were selected for their dissimilar climatic challenges: ...
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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 ...
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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 ...