Featured Research: Architecture & Urban

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Some flies like crowds

Global population growth and migration from rural areas to cities has resulted in human settlements being concentrated in urban areas.

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Footsteps Along the Tracks project uncovers largely forgotten cultural heritage

The University of Pretoria (UP) and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands present the Footsteps Along the Tracks project, which uncovers the largely forgotten cultural heritage represented by the Netherlands South African Railways Company (NZASM).

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Africa has an air pollution problem but lacks the data to tackle it

The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently launched BreatheLife, a campaign to make people more aware about the fact that air pollution – which it calls the invisible killer – is a major health and climate risk.

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Informal settlements: looking at the bigger picture

'I have lived in an informal settlement. I have visited a number of settlements. I have seen how poverty can strip my fellow humans of dignity.'

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Capital cities in the spotlight at UP

With most of the world’s population now living in cities and the current rate of urbanization showing no signs of abating, the sustainable management of urban areas has become one of the most important development challenges of our time.