Unisa Research Output: Recent submissions

  • Creativity in the Design Process 
    Brink, Basil (2012-03-06)
    In this paper a closer look is taken at the role that creativity plays in the design process. The purpose of the paper is to establish whether creativity is an essential ingedient in the design process. 'Design' and ...
  • The Origns of Town Planning in Britain 
    Brink, Basil (2012-03-06)
    Town planning in Britain originated because of an increase in population; migration from rural areas to expanding cities; work opportunities arising from new industries and machines, all in combination with unhygienic ...
  • Park Station - an Early Johannesburg Landmark Returns to the City 
    Nuttall, Jean (building, 1990-06-25)
    In 1990 project architect Basil Brink, assisted by Stuart Douglas, Mark Hansen, Lynnsay Nuyten and Alec Johnston, designed a new transport museum for Transnet in northern Newtown. Heritage considerations of the historic ...
  • The development of the Germiston Station Precinct. 
    The editor, Planning (Planning, 1990-01)
    In 1986 an urban design Master Plan for the Germiston Station Precinct, as prepared by a multi-disciplinary team from SA Transport Services and the Germiston local authority, was approved. This article outlines the approval ...
  • Parastatal Property and Planning 
    Brink, Basil (1998-01)
    The aim of this paper is to create an awareness of the challenges and opportunities that the development of parastatal properties provide for government, the business sector and built environment professionals. A distinction ...
  • Proposed Corporate HQ for SATS in Johannesburg 
    Brink, Basil Jacob, Peter Douglas, Stuart (2012-03-06)
    This report motivates for approval to proceed with planning and development of new office accommodation for the SA Transport Services (SATS), later Transnet, in central Johannesburg. Work completed to date, e.g. a feasibility ...
  • From 'man is the measure of all things' to money is the measure of all things : a dialogue between Protagoras and African philosophy 
    Ajei, Martin Odei Ramose, M.B. (2008)
    Protagoras’ declaration that “man is the measure of all things” is conventionally discussed in the context of epistemology. There was, however, a communal or social dimension to this even in ancient Greece. In the ...
  • The trials of Socrates and Jesus Christ : a comparison 
    Ladikos, Anastasios (2007)
    History records many controversial trials in which religious issues have been involved. In 399 BC Socrates was tried and condemned in Athens for introducing strange gods and corrupting the Athenian youth. The case was ...
  • Citizenship of the world : the cynic way 
    Bosman, Philip R. (2007)
    The article investigates the self-designation of Diogenes the Cynic as ‘citizen of the world’. It appears, contrary to scholarly opinion, that positive content can indeed be attached to the term. However, the Cynic ...
  • The persuit of justice in Plato's Republic 
    Ladikos, Anastasios (2007)
    The pursuit of justice in the Republic commences when the elderly, wealthy Cephalus suggests that justice involves nothing more than telling the truth and repaying one’s debts. But Socrates points out that by following ...
  • Plato's views on capital punishment 
    Ladikos, Anastasios (2005)
    Plato’s theory of punishment distinguishes scientifically administered measures, which may or may not take the form of actual punishment designed to cure a criminal of his offence which is a disease of the soul, not ...
  • Plato and Vedanta 
    Ram, Indranie (2005)
    The relationship between Plato’s conception of the existence of a soul as compared to the Vedantic view of a soul will be analysed. Vedanta philosophy holds in agreement with Plato that there is a magazine of knowledge ...
  • Did the cynics condone theft? Possession and dispossession in the diogenes tradition 
    Bosman, Phlip (2005)
    In this paper, I explore the evidence in the Diogenes tradition on the issue of theft. A line in Diogenes Laertius suggests that the Cynic approved of temple theft. However, before that can be taken as proof, various ...
  • One more time : views on Aristotle's pholosophy and intercultural philosophy 
    Van der Westhuizen, Jacob (2005)
    In my view a philosopher is a person of wisdom who produces a guide to life, providing us with some tools for dealing with practical problems and survival issues on at least five adaptation domains. These are a) ...
  • Revisiting the virtue of courage in Aristotle 
    Ladikos, Anastasios (2004)
    Aristotle views the courageous man as someone who endures and fears the right things, for the right motive, in the right manner, and at the right time, given that a courageous man feels and acts according to the merits ...
  • Newtown renewed : a review 
    Brink, Basil (2007-06-25)
    Newtown, a district in the western inner city of Johannesburg, has a long history of urban renewal of contested inner city space. The City Council of Johannesburg’s councillors, planners and consultants have guided and ...
  • Opportunities for Urban Revitalisation 
    Brink, Basil Downs, Robert (Sapoa News, 1990-03)
    The purpose of this article is to create an awareness of commercial property development opportunities offered by transport land. Examples are presened of such developments in first world countries. A systematic approach ...
  • Esselenpark - The Railways University in the Veld 
    Brink, Basil (Railways Africa, 1999-02)
    The artcle outlines the planning and construction history of Esselenpark and shatters some of the myths surrounding its construction. It examines why such an anachronistic, labour intenive and expensive complex was built ...
  • Design for Urban Man 
    Brink, Basil (2012-03-05)
    A mixed use building with shops, offices and apartments is designed within an urban design framework for Athlone, a suburb of Cape Town
  • Of serpents, reeds, understanding, and turns : some perspectives on implied apologetics and Pentateuch theory 
    Lombaard, Christo (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2007)
    The history of the churches in South Africa has also been a history of the scholarly interpretation of the Bible. Critical Pentateuch theory has a peculiar nature in this regard in that its main proponents have felt a ...

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