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Sun, shade and natural daylight in South African town planning, with emphasis on Pretoria	317	7	11	335
Reflections on expropriation-based land reform in Southern Africa	249	12	9	270
Considering spatial planning for the South African poor: An argument for 'planning with'	173	32	1	206
Planning for sustainable livelihood development in the context of rural South Africa: A micro-level approach	122	55	4	181
Conceptual commentary of public spaces in Durban, South Africa	141	13	2	156
Reimagining collaboration in urban planning through a social practice lens: Towards a conceptual framework	130	15	4	149
Land grabbing in Botswana: Modern era dispossession	129	18	0	147
Housing as urbanism: A policy to discourage urban sprawl and provide well-located and affordable housing in South Africa	116	16	0	132
Urban land reform in South Africa: Pointers for urban policy and planning	112	15	3	130
Examining women's access to rural land in UMnini Trust traditional area of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	108	19	2	129
Customary system as 'constraint' or 'enabler' to peri-urban land development: Case of Kisumu city, Kenya	114	6	2	122
Structuring South Africa's national economic space: A regional corridor network model approach	107	7	7	121
The South African IDP and SDF contextualised in relation to global conceptions of forward planning – A review	91	10	3	104
Brownfield development is the new green for sustainable mine-dump redevelopment	82	21	0	103
Trends in urban planning, climate adaptation and resilience in Zanzibar, Tanzania	87	5	9	101
Policy directions for spatial transformation and sustainable development: A case study of Polokwane City, South Africa	88	4	4	96
Incidental great public spaces and the role of urban design in South Africa	89	5	0	94
A framework for the management of human settlements: Nigeria and South Africa as cases	86	6	0	92
Understanding the factors influencing the spatial dynamics of informal settlements: The case of Enugu City, Nigeria	82	5	3	90
Building resilience to climate change in vulnerable communities: A case study of uMkhanyakude district municipality	57	18	14	89
A multisensory approach to measure public space quality in the city of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe	77	10	0	87
The potential of the University of the Free State QwaQwa campus to enable growth of the economy of QwaQwa	65	14	7	86
Land use land cover change and land surface emissivity in Ibadan, Nigeria	67	6	11	84
A review of the Nigerian urban and regional planning law, CAP. 138 LFN of 2004	73	9	2	84
Investment by private land developer companies and postcolonial urban growth in Ruwa (Zimbabwe), 1986-2015	70	8	3	81
Specialised airport infrastructure to support connectivity: The case of Dube Tradeport, eThekwini Municipality, South Africa	43	15	20	78
Building a food-resilient city through urban agriculture: The case of Ilorin, Nigeria	45	6	24	75
Scoping the nexus between climate change and water-security realities in rural South Africa	42	11	20	73
Perceptions on corruption and compliance in the administration of town planning laws: The experience from Lagos Metropolitan Area, Nigeria	63	8	0	71
Introducing the Green Book: A practical planning tool for adapting South African settlements to climate change	52	5	8	65
Do social grants contribute to the jobless population growth in the former South African homelands?	56	3	0	59
The right to functioning urban infrastructure - A review	39	6	8	53
Exploring some of the complexities of planning on 'communal land' in the former Transkei	31	17	4	52
Regional resilience in peripheral South Africa: The Northern Cape case	39	6	7	52
The generation of competencies and standards for planning in South Africa: Differing views	48	2	1	51
Communicative mapping as a means for promoting legal land tenure: The case study of the Goedverwacht Moravian Mission Village, in the Western Cape, South Africa	39	9	2	50
Upgrading informal settlements in South Africa: A partnership-based approach	29	21	0	50
Municipal urban land release and acquisition - SALGA's proposals to facilitate spatial transformation and inclusive economic growth through efficient urban land governance and management approaches	46	2	0	48
Environmental justice in the context of planning	41	5	0	46
Adaptive resistance amidst planning and administrative failure: The story of an informal settlement in the city of Kitwe, Zambia	31	9	5	45
Multi-stakeholder perspectives on approaches for addressing the incidence of urban public open space encroachment: The case of Freedom Square, Bloemfontein	34	4	7	45
The underbelly of the Berea: Challenges to orthodox planning for the creation of sustainable suburban neighbourhoods in South Africa	37	3	1	41
Mining and community in South Africa: From small town to iron town	34	5	0	39
Vendor and pedestrian experiences of their 'right to the city' in street design and management in small urban centres in the Vhembe District, South Africa	21	7	10	38
Building blocks in Planning research methodology: A roadmap to research design options	32	3	3	38
A critical Lefebvrian perspective on planning in relation to informal settlements in South Africa	19	8	8	35
A living conditions index for main and backyard shacks and backyard rooms in Gauteng's metropolitan municipalities: 2001 to 2011	30	2	3	35
Different values lead to alternative approaches to the land debate in South Africa	28	4	1	33
Land (and settlement) reform post-expropriation: Shifting the focus to the 'Sustainable Human Settlement Development' imperative	24	9	0	33
Capturing a community's vision as a pattern language: Case study of the Mooiplaas community in Great Kei Municipality, South Africa	26	3	2	31
Reflections on how the implementation of sustainable development goals across the UK and Ireland can influence the mainstreaming of these goals in English planning practice	21	1	9	31
The rental system in Ghana's low-income housing communities, challenges and adaptation strategies	23	2	3	28
City-making from below: A call for communities of resistance and reconstruction	17	4	6	27
Poor development control as flood vulnerability factor in Suleja, Nigeria	23	2	1	26
Small ideas for big impacts: Multifunctionality in the rural village of Verkykerskop	20	3	2	25
Informal backyard rentals through a social sustainability lens — a case study in Oudtshoorn, South Africa	21	2	2	25
Land tenure regularisation for sustainable land use in informal urban settlements: Case study of Lalaouia and Mesguiche, Souk Ahras, Algeria	23	1	1	25
A futures study into identifying the driving forces in neighbourhood-based management, using good urban governance: The case of Region 2 in Tabriz, Iran	22	3	0	25
Changing urban management doctrines in Cape Town, South Africa	24	0	0	24
Private-public partnership-produced urban space - An antithesis to 'the right to the city': A case study of Ruwa Town, Zimbabwe, from 1986-2021	21	0	3	24
Order without design: How markets shape cities	18	5	0	23
User-acceptance of sanitation technologies in South Africa and Malawi	16	2	4	22
Post-industrial urban quarries as places of recreation and the new wilderness - a South African perspective	20	1	0	21
Gone to ground: A history of environment and infrastructure in Dar es Salaam	19	2	0	21
An explorative approach to the evolving municipal landscape of South Africa: 1993-2020	18	0	1	19
Planning for non-motorised transport: Provision of footpaths as public spaces in Kisii town, Kenya Wilfred Ochieng Omollo	8	2	8	18
Sustainable: The war on free enterprise, private property, and individuals.	13	3	0	16
From the guest editor:	12	4	0	16
Greening the South African economy: Scoping the issues, challenges and opportunities	14	1	0	15
Perceived constraints to public participation in contemporary Nigerian land-use planning	14	1	0	15
Human rights and the transformation of property	13	1	0	14
Theorising urban space - Commentary by Jens Kuhn, 24 March 2022	12	2	0	14
Land reform in South Africa	8	5	0	13
2020 Stals Prize winner	12	1	0	13
Evaluation of outdoor activities in residential environments: The role of urban open spaces	7	3	3	13
Inclusion of warehousing and distribution in the Cape functional region's spatial plans	10	1	2	13
Politics and community-based research: Perspectives from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg	8	3	0	11
Prof Das Steýn 2018	7	2	0	9
Small-scale land grabbing in Greater Gaborone, Botswana	7	0	2	9
From the guest editor	8	1	0	9
From the guest editors	7	1	0	8
From the editor	7	1	0	8
In memoriam: Tribute to Professor Vanessa Watson 1950-2021	7	1	0	8
English-Afrikaans Bilingual Building Dictionary	5	2	0	7
Van die redakteur	5	0	0	5
From the editor	3	2	0	5
From the Deputy Editor: James Chakwizira 2021	4	0	0	4
In memoriam: A tribute to Prof. C.B. (Calie) Schoeman	4	0	0	4
From the deputy editor	2	1	0	3

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