Globally urbanization is accelerating, especially within developing countries. This often results in vulnerable urban conditions with limited adaptive capacity to respond to climate change-induced hazards. In response, ...

It is estimated that nearly two in three people will live in urban areas by 2045. The city is increasingly seen as a place of opportunity. It has become a receptacle for new social, cultural and economic strata. The urban ...

From the Pearse Collection: photograph of the interior of the Council Chamber of the City Hall of Goes, The Netherlands, showing a plastered ceiling and velvet-covered walls. The panel over the carved double doors contains ...

Uitgaande van twee universele dimensies van die bestaan, naamlik individualiteit en gemeenskaplikheid, word 'n strukturele model van die bestaan van enige entiteit geponeer. Deur die model op die bestaan van 'n werk as ...

A. First railway station building -- B. Arrival of the first train (NZASM) at Pretoria on January 1, 1893 -- C. New railway station building, designed by Sir Herbert Baker, shortly after completion, ca. 1912 -- D. and E. ...

This dissertation approaches the concept of city as object as experimental ground for exploring, understanding and expressing an architectural process that might define and delineate the reading of place as conductor of ...

This dissertation addresses the reestablishment of the Hammanskraal train station, by providing an integrated transport node that includes a variety of community functions. The aim is to re-introduce the Stationarea as a ...

English: The aim of this research is to explore the possibilities of the reuse and re-adaption of historical mining sites and towns in a postmining scenario. The threat of mine closure looms over South Africa and because ...

A ruined castle sits forgotten and in disarray on the southern fringe of Johannesburg’s inner-city. The gaping cracks worn on the stone and brick façade are partially obscured by layers of graffiti and soot, while nature ...