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Showing 1 to 20 of 690 for “"Architecture, Planning and Geomatics"”.
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Experiencing the wait: Civic Connector
… on the premise that experience is inherent to architecture and that we ought to build resolute in creating inhabited and traversed spaces. Thus, human experience and phenomenology are investigated with the aim of establishing an entry point into designing spaces which are socially resilient. …
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Museum, memory, and mental health: making sense of contestation over the interpretation of violence in the Contested Spaces exhibition at William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley, South Africa
The study sought to understand responses to Contested Spaces, an exhibition at the William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley, South Africa. The long running exhibition (2016-2021) curated artworks dealing with colonisation, Apartheid and Post-Apartheid periods. It aimed to surface diverse views of …
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Designing for health and well-being: Implementing Human Centered Design principles into an existing workplace precinct through adaptive re-use practices
… in promoting humancentered design principles and creating healthier buildings. With more than half of the global population now residing in urban areas and sedentary lifestyles becoming prevalent, there has been a global surge in chronic diseases and mental well-being decline as a result of …
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Sense of Place, Sense of self: Sharing place through the lens of food, culture and the sensory embodiment of space
… cook well, without the sense of smell, touch and taste. Those three senses are the most important for cooking something delicious. Eating is a part of everyday life. It is something we cannot go without so it's best to enjoy the moments that make up such a big part of our lives. That being …
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Hustle Revolution: Participation of young graduates in the informal economy of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
… in-depth interviews, hanging out (observations) and casual conversations with young graduates who participate in the informal economy in Bulawayo and organisations that work with youth in the city. Twelve participants were selected using snowball and purposive sampling techniques. The study was …
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Crafting a Place of Transition: From Refuge to Reconnection
… but also on helping them rebuild their social and psychological health. This dissertation proposes a language for an inpatient addiction treatment centre that disrupts the highly controlled, institutional design cues that have come to characterize so many places of healthcare. Because this kind …
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An inquiry into the use of the ecological approach for environmental and land use planning in the Howick sub-region, Natal
The recent and current world-wide public concern on the erosion, destruction and pollution of the natural environment has led to a reassessment of the discipline of Urban and Regional Planning - or Town and Country Planning as it is termed in Britain.
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The urban weave: Interlacing intangible threads to form a cohesive hybridized urban fabric
… a balance between the creativity of emergence and the stability of design. Where architecture does not control how the user operates in the spaces but rather becomes a guiding tool and give people ownership of their spaces. The goal is to work towards preserving and creating a strong African …
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Towards a plan for Kuils River
… which could ultimately form the basis or a land-use "plan", or policy for Kuils River. It is therefore considered fundamental to establish, in the first instance; the role of Kuils River in the region. It, furthermore, becomes necessary to define the local physical environment. This would …
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Complexity + Connection: Looking at Harare Square in a Context of Transformation
… harmony that erupts from group dynamics and behavior. We can see this in a flock of birds, a school of fish, or herds of land animals.1 A collective movement and grouping as one, that has the impression of centralized and intentional control as a group, yet all evidence has found that …
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Designing for health and well-being: Implementing Human Centered Design principles into an existing workplace precinct through adaptive re-use practices
… in promoting humancentered design principles and creating healthier buildings. With more than half of the global population now residing in urban areas and sedentary lifestyles becoming prevalent, there has been a global surge in chronic diseases and mental well-being decline as a result of …
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Municipal solid-waste collection and disposal management using geospatial techniques in Maseru City, Lesotho
… role in solid waste management. Collection and transportation of solid waste must be done in an efficient manner to avoid negative environmental impacts. At the time of study, there are no collection and routing system in Maseru City, leading to haphazard collection and disposal of Municipal …
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Daily migrations in a shifting landscape: Facilitating a circular economy on the south peninsula
… Noordhoek, Masipumelele, Sun Valley, Ocean View and Kommetjie. The valley is emblematic of the challenges and opportunities present at South Africa's urban fringe. The valley is dominated by natural systems, with settlement pinched between fragments of a national park, and the dramatic topography …
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An investigation into the role of women in the spatial planning and development of their settlements that are under the custodianship of traditional leaders: A case study of Cala in Sakhisizwe Municipality, Eastern Cape
This study aims to unpack the planning strategies employed by women who live on communal lands in the rural regions of the Eastern Cape. In South Africa, traditional leaders are the custodians of communal lands. Their patriarchal nature tends to negate gender equalities as envisaged and prescribed …
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A kreol coastal confluence in Mahebourg, Mauritius
The personal interest of the author and Mauritian cultural dissolution concentre in this architectural research – in the cerebration of a Kreol Coastal Confluence. This design inquiry presents an architecture of mediation as key, which focalises the divergent spheres into the same space - artisanal …
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Moving mindsets: A multidimensional inquiry into urban justice through the lens of urban mobility and the evolution of public space
… Urban Justice through the Lens of Urban Mobility and the Evolution of Public Space Inspired by my own experiences and driven by the transformative potential of transport systems, the focus of the dissertation is the revitalisation of the Pentech Metrorail Station, envisaging an integrated …
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Passenger rail in Cape Town: exploring institutional forms for a more effective rail service
… on more expensive alternative transport options, and as a result of unjust apartheid planning of the past, typically live the furthest away from economic opportunity. In the City of Cape Town, many of the poorest households spend up to 40% of their income alone and travel relatively long distances …
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The search for hybrid tectonics in contemporary African architecture: encounters between the global and the local
… of tectonic hybridisation in contemporary architecture in Africa where global and local ways of making are being combined. A growing awareness of this tendency was informed by an extended period of practicing, teaching, and re - searching architectural technology in Africa. I embarked on a …
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Applying sustainable urban drainage systems to urban floods management in area 49 planned settlement in Lilongwe City, Malawi
… Systems (SUDS). The main challenge is that SUDS and urban floods management are not adequately addressed in the current key spatial planning frameworks of Lilongwe City. There is a misalignment of the existing key spatial planning frameworks as far as SUDS implementation and integration are …
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Through the lens of identity, a poetic journey of subconscious embodiment in architecture
… as a catalyst for my interest in better understanding how our relationship with the spaces and environments around us affect our body and mind through time. In better understanding this dialectical relationship between the self and it's surroundings, I will explore the role of architecture as …
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