| SPLUMA, zoning and effective land use management in South Africa V Nel Urban Forum 27, 79-92, 2016 | 59 | 2016 |
| Resilience of informal settlements to climate change in the mountainous areas of Konso, Ethiopia and QwaQwa, South Africa TW Melore, V Nel Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies 12 (1), 1-9, 2020 | 41 | 2020 |
| A better zoning system for South Africa? V Nel Land Use Policy 55, 257-264, 2016 | 40 | 2016 |
| A thriving coal mining city in crisis? The governance and spatial planning challenges at Witbank, South Africa M Campbell, V Nel, T Mphambukeli Land Use Policy 62, 223-231, 2017 | 36 | 2017 |
| Putting spatial resilience into practice A Barnes, V Nel Urban Forum 28, 219-232, 2017 | 33 | 2017 |
| Economic transitions in South Africa's secondary cities: Governing mine closures L Marais, V Nel, K Rani, D Van Rooyen, K Sesele, P Van der Watt, ... Cogitatio, 2021 | 25 | 2021 |
| Theory versus practice in planning education: The view from South Africa SP Denoon-Stevens, L Andres, P Jones, L Melgaço, R Massey, V Nel Planning Practice & Research 37 (4), 509-525, 2022 | 21 | 2022 |
| The relationship of traditional leaders and the municipal council concerning land use management in Nkandla Local Municipality M Dubazane, V Nel Indilinga African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems 15 (3), 222-238, 2016 | 18 | 2016 |
| Space and planning in secondary cities: reflections from South Africa L Marais, V Nel UJ Press, 2019 | 17 | 2019 |
| Place attachment and social disruption in Postmasburg, a rapidly growing South African mining town L Marais, J Cloete, D van Rooyen, S Denoon-Stevens, V Nel GeoJournal 84, 71-83, 2019 | 16 | 2019 |
| Broken bridges over troubled waters: COVID-19 and the urban poor residing in Dinaweng informal settlement, Bloemfontein, South Africa AR Matamanda, M Dunn, V Nel South African geographical journal 104 (3), 309-327, 2022 | 15 | 2022 |
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| Mahikeng: A remote provincial capital with a turbulent past V Nel, J Drummond Space and planning in secondary cities: Reflections from South Africa, 265-286, 2019 | 10 | 2019 |
| Land-use management system as a tool towards achieving low-carbon cities in South Africa V Nel Stads-en Streeksbeplanning= Town and Regional Planning 2011 (58), 1-5, 2011 | 10 | 2011 |
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| Towards an understanding of proactive upzoning globally and in South Africa SP Denoon-Stevens, V Nel Land Use Policy 97, 104708, 2020 | 8 | 2020 |
| Migration, marginalisation and oppression in Mangaung, South Africa TN Mphambukeli, V Nel Crisis, Identity and Migration in Post-Colonial Southern Africa, 141-163, 2018 | 8 | 2018 |
| Exercising the right to access adequate housing in Joe Morolong Local Municipality, rural South Africa T Rapelang, V Nel, T Stewart Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 33, 695-714, 2018 | 7 | 2018 |
Maléne (Maria) (MM) CampbellAssociate Professor, University of the Free StateVerifierad e-postadress på ufs.ac.za
