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Combining tactical urbanism, biophilic design and biomimicry for more liveable and sustainable neighbourhoods
Dissertation (MTRP)--University of Pretoria, 2024.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/101032 Combining tactical urbanism, biophilic design and biomimicry for more liveable and sustainable neighbourhoods Landman, Karina carliencoetzee99@gmail.com Coetzee, Carlien UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Biomimicry Biophilic design Neighbourhoods Sustainability Tactical urbanism Dissertation (MTRP)--University of Pretoria, 2024. This study investigates the impact of tactical urbanism, biophilic design, and biomimicry on sustainable and liveable neighbourhood planning and development. It aims to explore the relationship between tactical urbanism, biophilic design, and biomimicry and how these three components can work together to promote sustainable neighbourhood development. The objectives of this study are to identify the relationship between the three components in international cases and local South African neighbourhoods, and to provide future scenarios based on the findings. The findings indicate that in most cases, at least one and, in some, two of the sustainability components are utilised but hardly ever all three. Through tactical urbanism, community adaptability and engagement are encouraged, which results in more affordable interventions that can evolve with feedback, enabling a sense of resilience and ownership within a community. Biophilic design has the ability to reconnect people with nature to improve physical and mental health, protect biodiversity, as well as improve the liveability of neighbourhoods. Biomimicry emulates natural processes that lead to resilient and efficient solutions that are symbiotic with the surrounding environment. Moving from more traditional sustainability to regenerative sustainability, the combination of these three components complements a more regenerative and holistic approach to neighbourhood planning where the individual benefit of each component is utilised and amplifies the liveability and sustainability of a neighbourhood. It is indicative of the need for interdisciplinary collaboration within the built environment between architects, town planners, landscape architects, and ecologists to enhance the potential and viability of sustainable neighbourhoods in cities in South Africa and beyond. Town and Regional Planning MTRP (Master of Town and Regional Planning) Unrestricted Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology SDG-09: Industry, innovation and infrastructure SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities SDG-13: Climate action 2025-02-18T14:39:36Z 2025-02-18T14:39:36Z 2025-05-12 2024-10-18 Dissertation * May 2025 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/101032 https://doi.org/10.25403/UPresearchdata.28435919 en © 2023 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Biomimicry Biophilic design Neighbourhoods Sustainability Tactical urbanism Combining tactical urbanism, biophilic design and biomimicry for more liveable and sustainable neighbourhoods |
| title | Combining tactical urbanism, biophilic design and biomimicry for more liveable and sustainable neighbourhoods |
| title_full | Combining tactical urbanism, biophilic design and biomimicry for more liveable and sustainable neighbourhoods |
| title_fullStr | Combining tactical urbanism, biophilic design and biomimicry for more liveable and sustainable neighbourhoods |
| title_full_unstemmed | Combining tactical urbanism, biophilic design and biomimicry for more liveable and sustainable neighbourhoods |
| title_short | Combining tactical urbanism, biophilic design and biomimicry for more liveable and sustainable neighbourhoods |
| title_sort | combining tactical urbanism biophilic design and biomimicry for more liveable and sustainable neighbourhoods |
| topic | UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Biomimicry Biophilic design Neighbourhoods Sustainability Tactical urbanism |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/101032 https://doi.org/10.25403/UPresearchdata.28435919 |