Engela Petzer

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa | CSIR · Built Environment Research Area

City planners attempt to create more equitable spaces by providing and improving access to benefits of living in cities, especially for previously disadvantaged urban communities. To this extent, evidence-based decision making is required to adequately plan for and improve accessibility to several types of facilities. Accessibility studies in liter...

This paper is centred on an investigation of whether the integrating earth observation and census data can result in useful information to support transport planning and monitoring. In particular circular buffers with radii of 500 m were created covering the current City of Tshwane’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) service areas in order to estimate the pr...

Planning is inherently about looking ahead. The profession holds the promise of bringing hope of a better future. Among planners it is sometimes taken for granted that planning is concerned with the future and that planners will confront the future and inevitably have a positive impact. However, a number of theorists have claimed that planning is n...

Urban growth management has become a very popular concept in the international planning arena dealing with ways to curb urban sprawl while simultaneously eradicating its associated negative consequences. Considering South Africa and its legacy of segregated towns and cities combined with sweeping suburbanisation during the late 1980s, this country...

Urban growth management has become a very popular concept in the international planning arena dealing with ways to curb urban sprawl while simultaneously eradicating its associated negative consequences. Considering South Africa and its legacy of segregated towns and cities combined with sweeping suburbanisation during the late 1980s, this country...