Qualifications:
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- B Arch.Stud; B Arch (UFS); M (City Planning and Urban Design) (UCT); PhD (Urban Design) (Newcastle upon Tyne)
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Research Areas:
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- Main focus is on safe and sustainable housing and neighbourhoods. This incorporates a number of specific areas, including medium-density mixed housing, diverse housing and neighbourhoods, designing safer neighbourhoods, gated communities, the transformation of public open space towards safer and more sustainable spaces that would be more diverse and inclusive and urban resilience.
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Current Research Projects:
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- NRF Project (Incentive Funding), investigating the changing face of public open space in South African cities, with a specific focus on the city of Tshwane;
- A large NRF project under the leadership of Prof Chrisna du Plessis, investigating “The Urban Resilience of Aspirational African Cities”; and
- “Capital Cities” project coordinated by the Faculty of Humanities, under the leadership of Prof Alan Mabin.
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Teaching Profile:
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- Settlement concepts; Settlement planning & housing delivery; Spatial concepts; Urban interventions (with a focus on urban design); Design for sustainability; Design for safety; Introduction to Urban Design.
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Awards, Memberships, Positions, etc.
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National Research Foundation (NRF): first evaluation, 2011 – Y1 researcher.
Membership:
- Member of the Editorial Board of Urban Design International, a UK based journal published by Palgrave Maxmillian (2009 – -ongoing);
- Member of the Nordic-Baltic Housing Research Network coordinated by the University of Göteborg Sweden, Chalmers Architecture, supported by NordForsk, (2009 – ongoing) http://www.chalmers.se/arch/SV/forskning/forskningsprojekt/visions-residential9530; and
- Member of CIB working group 69 on “Housing and sociology” (2008 – ongoing).
Awards:
- AESOP Prize: Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) best paper published prize 2011: Roitman, S., Webster C.H., Landman, K. (2010). ‘Methodological frameworks and interdisciplinary research on gated communities’, International Planning Studies, 15(1): 3–23.
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Outreach/Consulting:
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- Conducting research related in the fields of housing, urban design and planning, with a specific focus on the research focus areas mentioned above; and
- Preparing various research outputs including research reports and academic journal articles to disseminate the findings of the research.
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Collaborations:
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- Collaboration with the Department of Construction Economics on the NRF project, investigating “The Urban Resilience of Aspirational African Cities”; and
- Collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities on the “Capital Cities” project.
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