Search Results - Local context

  1. Exploring Opportunities for 3d Printing Construction in Emerging Contexts: Through the Design of a Vocational Training College in Philippi by Snyman, Marie

    Published 2023
    “…The project focuses on 3D printing construction and investigates the potential and limitations of the technology in the local context. It also looks at how the capabilities and restrictions of the technology influence the language of the architecture it produces. …”
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  2. Social infrastructures: a shift to decentralized infrastructure as a means of rejuvenating blighted Lagosian contexts and places of similar genus by Windapo, Bayonle Olanrewaju

    Published 2016
    “…The effects of climate change on the low-lying coastal plains further exacerbate the degeneration experienced in these contexts. Therefore this research examines how people live independently of central infrastructure in informal contexts such as Makoko and whether this autonomy can be embedded into interventions that are integrated within the socio-economic networks of these contexts in a bid to shift from defective central infrastructures to social infrastructures that transform the blighted Lagos contexts in a manner that builds resilience at a local level. …”
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  3. Situating the HIV/AIDS epidemic in a historical context : a case study of orphans in Nguludi Mission Community, Malawi by Croke, Rhian G

    Published 2015
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  4. Situating the HIV/AIDS epidemic in a historical context : a case study of orphans in Nguludi Mission Community, Malawi by Croke, Rhian G

    Published 2015
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  5. Adaptive leadership capacity in extreme contexts : the experience of public-sector leaders in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Published 2021
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  6. Demographic and neuropsychological profile of HIV-positive children referred for an assessment at a local clinic over a 5-year period by Mokoena, Limpho

    Published 2025
    “…Considering the impact of HIV on the brain, the PNC offers services and resources to support the study of the effect of HIV (and other pathologies that result in neuropsychological impairments) on the developing brain and its influence on children more broadly in the South African context. Given how limited such services of this nature are in this context and the related opportunity for research and knowledge based on such services, I aimed to the describe the demographic, medical, developmental, and neuropsychological profiles of children referred to RXH PNC over a 5-year period (with an in depth focus on those who are HIV-positive). …”
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  7. Keeping decentralisation in check: An exploration of the relationship between municipal audit outcomes and levels of service delivery in South African local government by Craig, Stephanie Ella

    Published 2017
    “…The results suggest that, whilst there does appear to be a weak, positive relationship between clean audits and service delivery in some instances, on the whole the audit outcomes are not strongly related to municipal operational performance. The capacity of local governments to deliver services appears to be far more a function of their operational context - particularly the regional wealth levels, population density, political influence and available infrastructure - than financial compliance and audit outcomes. …”
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  8. Re-Discovering & Re-Conceptualising Local Area Plans: A Qualitative Investigation in Guiding Spatial Sustainability in Maitland, Cape Town by Messaris, Anastasia

    Published 2023
    “…However, South Africa's local area plans are currently not conceptualised to guide spatial sustainability which, as a recent global concept, has yet to be rigorously researched in specific contexts. …”
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  9. The production and use of wordless picture books in parent-child reading : an exploratory study within a South African context by Le Roux, Adrie

    Published 2012
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  10. Hartbeespoortdam Butterfly Conservancy : an ecological splurge

    Published 2013
    Subjects: “…Context…”
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