Town and Regional Planning  

Willemien van Niekerk, Elsona van Huyssteen, Jo-Anne Chauvet

Spatial change phenomena in SA – explorations and innovationsWe would like to dedicate this special edition to our beloved colleague and friend, Maria Joe Coetzee who passed away on 2 November 2014. The work depicted in this special edition is testimony o... see more

Louis Waldeck, Alize le Roux, Cathy Meiklejohn, Willemien van Niekerk, Tsepang Leuta

This article is based on the assumption that more spatially efficient investment choices in both economic and basic infrastructure spending can make a significant impact on the equity, efficiency and sustainability of human settlements. Emerging... see more

Helga Goss, Cathy Meiklejohn, Patrick Mlangeni

The purpose of this article is to introduce the development of the Regional Spatial Profiler – a spatial information and modelling platform – for the Department of Science and Technology. Based on the steps set out in action research, this platf... see more

Yasmin Shapurjee, Alize le Roux

This article examines the phenomenon of backyard housing in Gauteng, a prominent driver of urban spatial change in South Africa’s housing market. Backyard housing in South Africa increasingly attracts the attention of policymakers because of the... see more

Johan Maritz, Pieter Kok

Migration is critical for policy agendas and government planning as it changes the demographic composition of towns, cities and regions – this requires adjustments to service and infrastructure provision. To develop suitable policy responses, re... see more

Christo Venter, Catherine Cross

The article describes the application of a GIS-based accessibility measurement technique suited to assessing the impact of both transport and spatial development strategies on the location-specific affordability of job access for poor households... see more

Chéri Green, Gerbrand Mans, Peter Schmitz, David McKelly, Mark te Water

Municipalities and metropolitan structures are required by law to provide sufficient response to emergency situations. In order to respond efficiently to disasters such as fire and flooding, it is necessary to place facilities optimally. This ca... see more

Antony Cooper, Elsona van Huyssteen, Sonali Das, Gerbrand Mans

A Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is an evolving concept, essentially consisting of policies, institutional arrangements, Geographical Information Systems (GISs), data bases, networks, Web services and portals to facilitate and coordinate the ... see more