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  • Benchmarking the way cities and regions around the world are responding to the global recession 
    Everatt, David; Gotz, Graeme; Phakathi, Sizwe; Makgetla, Neva (2009-09)
    The Gauteng Provincial Government Department of Economic Department (GPGDED) approached the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO) to provide them with a fast turn-around report that benchmarks sub-national responses to ...
  • Brazil: innovation and development 
    Arbix, Glauco; de Toledo, Demétrio G. C.; Felizardo, Rafael G. (2012-10)
    This essay discusses recent developments in Brazil´s innovation policies. These policies are part of a long-term developmental process and the current search for a new national configuration of policies and instruments ...
  • A composite index of quality of life for the Gauteng city-region: a principal component analysis approach 
    Greyling, Talita (2015-03-30)
    GCRO's 'Quality of Life' survey and outputs are increasingly part of the research landscape, with both policy and academic uptake. However, to ensure that the results are as accurate as possible, we commission external ...
  • The decanting of acid mine water in the Gauteng City-Region: analysis, prognosis and solutions 
    McCarthy, Terence (2010-09)
    The large void beneath the Witwatersrand created by gold mining over the last 120 years is filling with water, which is rising at about 15m per month. The void will fill and water will begin to leak out (decant) on surface ...
  • Distribution of population vs economic activity 
    Mosiane, Ngaka; Murray, Jennifer (Gauteng City-Region Obervatory, 2021-08-31)
    The location of population in relation to economic activity in the Gauteng City-Region (GCR) has been a subject of considerable interest from a number of researchers and institutions. This Map of the Month contributes to ...
  • Economic and commuting connections in the northern GCR 
    Mosiane, Ngaka; Murray, Jennifer (Gauteng City-Region Obervatory, 2022-02-28)
    This Map of the Month illustrates some of the ways through which the core areas of the Gauteng City-Region (GCR) are interconnected with their peripheries, including those that are outside the Gauteng Province, but are ...
  • A framework for a green infrastructure planning approach in the Gauteng City-Region 
    Bobbins, Kerry; Culwick, Christina (2016-09)
    As the population, economy and urban built environment in the Gauteng City-Region (GCR) expand, government is increasingly under pressure to provide urban infrastructure to support growth. It is increasingly important that ...
  • Gauteng going dark: How nighttime light intensity changed during early stages of lockdown 
    Naidoo, Yashena; Maree, Gillian (Gauteng City-Region Obervatory, 2020-07-21)
    The COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa has had far reaching impacts on society and the economy. A national disaster was declared on 15 March 2020 and by 26 March 2020 strong restrictive measures were put in place to manage ...
  • Gauteng’s property gradient three decades after the repeal of the Group Areas Act 
    Ballard, Richard; Namponya, Alfred; Tshangana, Alison (Gauteng City-Region Obervatory, 2021-06-30)
    In June 1991, the South African parliament repealed the Group Areas Act, the legislation that the apartheid state had used to drive urban segregation. To mark the three decade anniversary of this moment, this month’s map ...
  • Gauteng’s urban land cover growth: 1990-2020 
    Ballard, Richard; Hamann, Christian (Gauteng City-Region Observatory, 2022-03-31)
  • The GCRO barometer 2014 
    Mushongera, Darlington (2015-04-17)
    The GCRO Barometer 2014 depicts developmental progress in the Gauteng City-Region (GCR) in a single interactive graphic using 38 indicators across ten key sectors. It serves as a tracking and diagnostic tool to inform ...
  • Historical spatial change in the Gauteng City-Region 
    Mubiwa, Brian; Annegarn, Harold (2013-03)
    This Occasional Paper is one of two that GCRO has commissioned specifically to deepen our understanding of the past of the GCR. Both focus on aspects of the region’s spatial past, and ought to be read together. This paper ...
  • The impact of COVID-19 on long term care facilities 
    Maree, Gillian; Khanyile, Samkelisiwe (Gauteng City-Region Obervatory, 2020-10-01)
    For those who live in long term care facilities the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have been particularly devastating. For the September Map of the Month we explore the impacts on long term care facilities in Gauteng by ...
  • In pursuit of just sustainability 
    Culwick Fatti, Christina; Cohen, Brett; Jennings, Gail; Kane, Lisa; Rubin, Margot; Tyler, Emily (Gauteng City-Region Observatory, 2021-11-01)
    This volume is the product of a research collective that brought together researchers from different backgrounds to explore just sustainability in Gauteng. This research collective, which was initiated by the volume’s ...
  • Johannesburg and its epidemics: Can we learn from history? 
    Harrison, Philip (Gauteng City-Region Observatory, 2020-11-30)
    Covid-19 has massively disrupted life globally and locally, bringing many uncertainties in its wake. It is not, however, the first epidemic to pummel the Gauteng City-Region. This GCRO Occasional Paper provides a detailed ...
  • The map of Gauteng: evolution of a city-region in concept and plan 
    Mabin, Alan (2013-07)
    The mission of the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO) is to help illuminate trends and dynamics shaping the region of towns and cities in and around Gauteng, and also enhance understanding of the idea of the Gauteng ...
  • Mapping vulnerability to COVID-19 in Gauteng 
    de Kadt, Julia; Gotz, Graeme; Hamann, Christian; Maree, Gillian; Parker, Alexandra (Gauteng City-Region Observatory: Map of the Month, March 2020, 2020-03-20)
    The world is reeling as COVID-19 infections spread. This Map of the Month aids an understanding of the localised risk factors that might contribute to transmission of COVID-19, or amplify its health and socio-economic ...
  • Mining landscapes of the Gauteng City-Region 
    Bobbins, Kerry; Trangos, Guy (Gauteng City-Region Observatory, 2018-01)
    The extraction of gold along the Witwatersrand mining belt has fundamentally shaped the Gauteng City-Region (GCR) over more than a century. Mining in the region occurred across a vast area. The Witwatersrand basin is made ...
  • Mobility in the Gauteng City-Region 
    Gotz, Graeme; Wray, Chris; Venter, Christo; Badenhorst, Willem; Trangoš, Guy; Culwick, Christina (2014-08)
    Mobility in the Gauteng City-Region has been written in a remarkable moment in the history of transport development in Gauteng. On the one hand the region appears to be in a new ‘golden era’ of transit infrastructure design ...
  • Modelling urban spatial change: a review of international and South African modelling initiatives 
    Wray, Chris; Musango, Josephine; Damon, Kavesha; Cheruiyot, Koech (2013-08)
    Urban growth and land use change models have the potential to become important tools for urban spatial planning and management. Before embarking on any modelling, however, GCRO felt it was important to take note of, and ...

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