{"id":4572,"date":"2025-06-10T13:47:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/?p=4572"},"modified":"2025-06-10T13:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:47:19","slug":"safe-urban-futures-exploring-the-nexus-between-urban-safety-and-quality-of-life-in-south-african-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/safe-urban-futures-exploring-the-nexus-between-urban-safety-and-quality-of-life-in-south-african-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Safe urban futures: exploring the nexus between urban safety and quality of life in South African cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Researcher<\/strong>: Lerato Tlale, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg<br><strong>Supervisor<\/strong>: Helen Sarah Robertson, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg<\/p><p>Urban safety&#8217;s correlation with holistic quality of life in South Africa&#8217;s evolving urban landscape demands comprehensive exploration and understanding.<br>South Africa&#8217;s population, estimated at 58 million in2019 and projected to reach 65 million by 2030 and 70 million by 2043, underscores the significance of quality of life amid rising urbanization rates.<br>The exploration of the relationship between elements of the built environment, like urban safety, and quality of life is pivotal in shaping present and future urban developments in South Africa.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2237867612-Lerato-Tlale-41558_Lerato_Tlale_vebedd_18079_348370212-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2237867612-Lerato-Tlale-41558_Lerato_Tlale_vebedd_18079_348370212-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2237867612-Lerato-Tlale-41558_Lerato_Tlale_vebedd_18079_348370212-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2237867612-Lerato-Tlale-41558_Lerato_Tlale_vebedd_18079_348370212-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2237867612-Lerato-Tlale-41558_Lerato_Tlale_vebedd_18079_348370212-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2237867612-Lerato-Tlale-41558_Lerato_Tlale_vebedd_18079_348370212-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2237867612-Lerato-Tlale-41558_Lerato_Tlale_vebedd_18079_348370212-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researcher: Lerato Tlale, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Helen Sarah Robertson, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Urban safety&#8217;s correlation with holistic quality of life in South Africa&#8217;s evolving urban landscape demands comprehensive exploration and understanding.South Africa&#8217;s population, estimated at 58 million in2019 and projected to reach 65<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capstone-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4574,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions\/4574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}