Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 2005.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Canterbury, 2006. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-118). Also available via the World Wide Web.

M.Ing. / Housing is the core infrastructure on which all other infrastructure like electricity, roads, water and sanitation depend. The escalation of public demonstrations by communities against the slow delivery and poor quality of housing projects in 2006 indicates that housing is a very sensitive issue that also involves a lot of politics. Most disadvantaged communities in South Africa lack even the most basic infrastructure like water. For any community to function properly and be successful, the core infrastructure must be in place. The core infrastructure consists of housing, roads and storm-water, water and sanitation and electricity and other auxiliary infrastructure include social services, safety and security. Government in South Africa is facing the challenges of delivering on promises and programmes from election campaigns and the mandate of the community. Government set national targets on the delivery of infrastructure services by focussing on water, electricity and sanitation. The national target was set to provide universal access to electricity services by 2012. The housing backlog in South Africa was chosen as a topic for this dissertation because of the many challenges and the variants that the project team comes across with each project. Project management involves managing projects according to specifications, within budget and delivering the end-product on time. Delivering completed housing projects to communities is a very challenging task as demonstrated by the many late or stalled housing projects in municipalities. This dissertation addresses the challenges facing the National Department of Housing as well as municipalities in delivering good quality accommodation to the poor communities.

South Africa is experiencing unprecedented population growth due to rapid urbanisation. This growth often overwhelms the current planning and developmental capacities of city-regions acutely impacting informal settlement areas. As a result the city's most vulnerable citizens experience poor service delivery and poor living conditions. This project proposal challenges the current approach to housing delivery and the upgrading of informal settlements in urban areas of South Africa. It is positioned within a complex informal housing environment with poor basic infrastructure and high exposure to the risk of fire and flooding in winter. Based on the research of this project, the Barney Molokana Section in Khayelitsha was selected as the conditions above were evident in this informal settlement. The project comprises three parts; the first is a proposal for an infrastructural intervention aimed to act as a settlement organisational device, the second is a public amenities building that promotes an active public interface and a didactic architecture and the third a series of support structures that further promote the concept of incremental housing development. The process learnt from existing spatial configurations and transformations within informal settlements allowed the working backwards to discover the minimal elements or support structures from which a settlement can grow incrementally.

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Thesis (M.U.D.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [72-74]).

Thesis (M.U.D.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [72-74]) Also available in print.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.

Thesis (doctoral)--Harvard University, 2002. / Adviser: Peter G. Rowe. Includes bibliographical references.