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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Delft"”.
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Urban Campus: Building the local craft tradition in Delft
Delft is currently under construction. Evidence reveals that most residents have engaged in some form of building activity, be it small scale or large scale, self-initiated or by hired means. This labour-intensive condition gives rise to the notion of Delft as a site of production, resulting in an …
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Delft Campus Of Schools - A Network Of Educational Offerings
With a personal interest in youth, it became my primary point of departure, which acknowledges the fact that youth development within local income areas is hindered due to the lack and inadequate resources and spaces. The focus on youth is imperative to address social transformation and release …
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Fertile ground: enhancing local food production in Delft, South Africa
This dissertation, situated in Delft, on the eastern edge of Cape Town, aims to improve livelihoods by establishing a productive urban agricultural operation that will create jobs, supply healthy food and reestablish farming as a lucrative business in an impoverished community. It is intended to …
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(re)Constructing the way we build - Skills Development Centre in Delft
… between the social and the material in Delft, Cape Town. The strong themes of the temporary and the permanent and formal and informal create a conflict of identity within Delft. The theory of Critical Regionalism will be the foundation for creating an architecture of identity within the …
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Activating the back-quarters: strategies of acupuncture for the neglected open spaces of Delft South
… are explored and hypothetically tested using Delft South, Western Cape, as a site. With regard to the public spaces the present condition of the public spaces are not dissimilar to that in other areas of the same socioeconomic condition in South Africa. The public spaces have been neglected …
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Re-drawing the thin blue line: Re-configuring the public interface of the Delft Police Station
… the social phenomena of crime, particularly in Delft, and a concern with the character of institutional buildings, particularly in 'township' areas. These two departure points intersect in an interrogation of the police station as an architectural type, particularly the Delft Police Station. The …
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Exploring the lived experiences of those who attended gender-based violence prevention community theatre in Delft
… violence (GBV) prevention community theatre in Delft. The study presents lived experiences and the meanings attached to those experiences from the perspectives of audience members. Supplementarily, the study explored audience members' definition of GBV and GBV prevention and looks at the …
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Constraints to secure livelihoods in the informal sector: the case of informal enterprises in Delft South, Cape Town
… constraints to securer informal livelihoods in Delft South? The research employs the case study method to address this question. This dissertation engages with the lived realities of informal business operators in Delft South, Cape Town. Enterprise census data was analyzed and in-depth …
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An exploration of the work experiences of taxi drivers in Cape Town: A study of Delft and Khayelitsha
… drivers in the Cape Town area, with a focus on Delft and Khayelitsha. The study sought to gain insight on the work experiences of minibus taxi drivers, looking at their health, social and family life, challenges, and the changes they wish to see in the industry. Methodologically, this aim was …
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It is here that we've come to live: imagined representations of Delft South as a post-apartheid township
… of apartheid hegemony. The dissertation used Delft South township as a case study for the reason that it carries the notion of a post-apartheid township and as a result it has been imagined as such. In its creation as a 'new' kind of township, Delft South was stipulated in terms of section 3 …
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Grounding Density: Mobilising the economic and spatial potential of low-income housing along the Delft South main road
… locates the research within the context of Delft South and, more specifically, along the main road. The idea of "Home as Economic Generator" is explored through studying housing and retail patterns. The third chapter moves towards a design outcome by choosing and analysing Sibanye Square as …
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Exploring the functioning of families living in the socially disorganized communities of Khayelitsha and Delft: A family resilience perspective
… disorganized communities of Khayelitsha and Delft, from a family resilience perspective. The study made use of the qualitative research method, applying an explorative research design to collect data from 24 families residing in socially disorganized communities. Findings of this study …
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A matched case control study of the nutritional status of newly diagnosed tuberculosis patients and tuberculosis free contacts in Delft, Western Cape
Background: Malnutrition is a risk factor for the development of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) and may be responsible for the premature deaths of patients with active disease. An adequate nutritional status may therefore be protective in delaying the onset from latent infection to active disease. In …
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An exploration of the relationship between applied theatre and community building practice, with specific reference to a teenage pregnancy project in Delft
In a developing country such as South Africa, the challenge to locate new, effective methods of social development is key. This study argues that applied theatre has the potential to become a powerful medium for the fulfilment of this aim. The development and performance of this kind of theatre, …
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To reimagine the integration of public transport with high-density neighbourhoods
… the analysis of the transportation network in Delft, a rapidly transforming settlement 21 km from the inner city of Cape Town. Although the settlement is located far away from the historic city core, its main road follows an important desire line connecting Khayelitsha, a dense working-class …
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Sooting behaviour of turbulent non-premixed jet flames.
… as the PJ-P and, in the well characterised “Delft III Flame” from the TNF workshop firing simulated Dutch natural gas. The PJ-P and the SJ have a similar time-averaged soot volume fraction, FV [F in italics & ¯ accented; V in italics & subscript], which is about an order of magnitude higher …
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High streets: Constructing the public realm in a low income area
… The dissertation proceeds to identify Main Road, Delft as an emerging high street. Main Road, Delft is then further analysed and findings reveal that the informal and institutional uses constitute the street. From further analysis, the institutional buildings reveal a lack of positive street …
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Studies in the crystallisation behaviour of Potassium Nitrate
… based in the Laboratory for Process Equipment at Delft University of Technology.
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The InforMALL: Shopping malls as infrastructures to support small-scale informal businesses
… sector within the emerging economic area of Delft. This was born out of a personal fascination with the concept of informal or 'alternative-formal' economics. The existence of this concept was first brought to my attention through the Spaces of Good Hope Design + Research Studio (SoGH) in my …
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