Healing landscape : regenerating the cityscape with regard to healing potential of the biophysical environment

dc.contributor.advisorPienaar, Leon
dc.contributor.emailm.coetzee.mc@gmail.comen_ZA
dc.contributor.postgraduateCoetzee, Mariska
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-26T08:51:38Z
dc.date.available2015-05-26T08:51:38Z
dc.date.created2015
dc.date.issued2015en_ZA
dc.descriptionDissertation (ML(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2015.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe chosen project is a response to the need of human beings to connect with nature. It demonstrates how landscape architecture can help to develop recreational open space that improves the natural systems within the city and ultimately enhance human and ecological wellbeing. The proposed solution will investigate the relationship between population growth, urbanisation, open space requirements and how to fulfil the need to connect with an ecologically sound environment in order to create responsive landscape architecture. The aim is to steer away from a monofunctional landscape but to design ecologically functional spaces that will address the public need and be the intermediate biophysical connection. Open space typologies are investigated in relation to their functionality within the urban environment. Spatial requirements according to the CSIR guidelines are used in order to determine whether existing open spaces provision is adequate. The scales of investigation range from microscopic research to the implementation of the design. Recreational facilities should be included according to the need thereof. The proposed facility is thus composed out of various different programmes, each with its own specific requirements. The composition of the open spaces is according to the CSIR’s settlement development requirements, proposals done by Encha Properties and MDC (Pty) Ltd. A proposal by Tshwane identifies open spaces in general and to complete the intermediate biophysical connection the design propose a general programme assigned to other unidentified adjacent spaces along the Apies River. The spaces can broadly be divided into recreational open space, educational recreation, sports recreation, cultural recreation, and some mixed use spaces. The Apies River serves as connector between spaces, as an opportunity to create a green corridor along which people, plants and animals can migrateen_ZA
dc.description.availabilityUnrestricteden_ZA
dc.description.degreeML(Prof)
dc.description.departmentArchitectureen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationCoetzee, M 2015, Healing landscape : regenerating the cityscape with regard to healing potential of the biophysical environment, ML(Prof) Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/45297>
dc.identifier.otherA2015
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/45297
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoriaen_ZA
dc.rights© 2015 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.en_ZA
dc.subjectHealingen_ZA
dc.subjectLandscapeen_ZA
dc.subjectRegeneratingen_ZA
dc.subjectUrbanen_ZA
dc.subjectNetworken_ZA
dc.subjectUCTD
dc.titleHealing landscape : regenerating the cityscape with regard to healing potential of the biophysical environmenten_ZA
dc.typeMini Dissertationen_ZA

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