Role
Senior Lecturer – Property Management & Development and Course Leader - BSc Property Development and Planning.
Career overview
Stuart is an academic and town planner working to understand how we can create better places to live and work. His expertise includes basic and applied research, policy development, and development control. He spent the first five years of his career as a development control planner and researcher, and since 2015 he has primarily worked as an academic, first in South Africa and now in the UK.
He has researched various topics, including development control, housing, spatial planning for mining towns, planning practice and education, and has over 30 published academic works, including two edited books. He has been involved in policy and research projects as principal, co-investigator, consultant or sub-consultant and has been involved in a number of high-level policy projects.
He has taught various topics, including research methodology, applied spatial planning, environmental planning, economics for planners, and property development, amongst others. He was previously Program Director for a postgraduate degree in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of the Free State, and is the current Course Leader for the BSc Property Development and Planning.
Publications
2022
Andres, L., Denoon-Stevens, S.P., Bryson, J.R., Bakare, H. and Marques, L.M.S., 2021. Planning for sustainable urban livelihoods in Africa. Chapter in Nunan, F., Barnes, C. and Krishnamurthy, S. Eds. The Routledge Handbook on Livelihoods in the Global South. London, Routledge.
Denoon-Stevens, S.P., Andres, L., Jones, P., Melgaço, L., Massey, R., & Nel, V. 2020. Theory versus Practice in Planning Education: The View from South Africa. Planning Practice & Research, 37(4): 509-525. (Online – since 12 March 2020).
Denoon-Stevens, S. P., Andres, L., Nel, V., & Jones, P. 2022. Unpacking planners' views of the success and failure of planning in post-apartheid South Africa. Cities, 130: 103867.
Gbadegesin, J., Marais, L., Von Maltitz, M., Cloete, J., Lenka, M., Rani, K., Campbell, M., Denoon-Stevens, S., Venter, A., Koetaan, Q. & Pretorius, W., 2022. Student Housing Satisfaction at a South African University. Journal of Student Affairs Research & Practice, 59(5): 559-579.
Jones, P., Andres, L., Denoon-Stevens, S.P. & Melgaço, L. 2021. 'Planning out abjection? The role of the planning profession in post-apartheid South Africa', Planning Theory, 21(1), 35-55
Massey, R.T. and Denoon-Stevens, S.P. 2022. Health and wellbeing in urban South Africa: an overview. South African Geographical Journal, 104(3): 271-275.
2021
Denoon-Stevens, S.P. 2021. Quo Vadis, Rustenburg? Chapter in Marais, L., Campbell, M., Denoon-Steven, S.P., & Van Rooyen, D. Eds. Mining & Community in the South African Platinum Belt: A Decade after Marikana. New York: Nova Publishers.
Denoon-Stevens, S.P. & Du-Toit, K. 2021. The Health Impacts of Coal Mining & Coal-based Energy. Chapter in Marais, L., Burger, P., Campbell, M., Denoon-Stevens, S.P. & van Rooyen, D. Eds. Coal & Energy in South Africa: Considering a Just Transition. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press.
Denoon-Stevens, S.P. & Du-Toit, K. 2021. The job–food–health nexus in South African townships & the impact of COVID-19. Chapter in Bryson, J.R., Andres, L., Ersoy, A. & Reardon, L. Eds. 2021. Living with Pandemics: Places, People & Policy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Gbadegesin, J., Marais, L., Denoon-Stevens, S. P., Cloete, J., Venter, A., Rani, K., et al. 2021. Studentification & governance in South Africa: Dependencies & conflicts. Land Use Policy, 109: 105639
Marais, L., Campbell, M., Denoon-Steven, S.P., & Van Rooyen, D. Eds. 2021. Mining & Community in the South African Platinum Belt: A Decade after Marikana. New York: Nova Publishers.
Marais, L., Campbell, M., Denoon-Steven, S.P., & Van Rooyen, D. 2021. Rustenburg: The Challenges of a Normalised Mining Town. Chapter in Marais, L., Campbell, M., Denoon-Steven, S.P., & Van Rooyen, D. Eds. Mining & Community in the South African Platinum Belt: A Decade after Marikana. New York: Nova Publishers.
Marais, L., Burger, P., Campbell, M., Denoon-Stevens, S.P. & van Rooyen, D. 2021. Is a Just Transition Possible? Chapter in Marais, L., Burger, P., Campbell, M., Denoon-Stevens, S.P. & van Rooyen, D. Eds. Coal & Energy in South Africa: Considering a Just Transition. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press.
Marais, L., Burger, P., Campbell, M., Denoon-Stevens, S.P. & van Rooyen, D. Eds. 2021. Coal & Energy in South Africa: Considering a Just Transition. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press.
2020
Adams, D., Andres, L., Denoon-Stevens, S., & Melgaço, L. 2020. Challenges, opportunities & legacies: experiencing the internationalising of UK planning curricula across space & time. Town Planning Review, 91(5): 515-534
Andres, L., Bryson, J., Denoon-Stevens, S., Bakare, H., Du Toit, K. & Melgaço, L. 2020. Calling for Responsible Inclusive Planning & Healthy Cities in Africa. Town Planning Review, 92(2): 195–201
Andres, L., Jones, P., Denoon-Stevens., S., & Melgaço, L. 2020. Negotiating polyvocal strategies: re-reading de Certeau through the lens of urban planning in South Africa. Urban Studies, 51(12): 2440-2455
Bakare, H., Denoon-Stevens, S.P. & Melgaço, L., 2020. Informality & Temporary Urbanism as Defiance: Tales of the Everyday Life & Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa. Chapter in Andres, L. & Zhang, A.Y. Eds. Transforming Cities Through Temporary Urbanism (61-72). Springer, Cham.
Denoon-Stevens, S.P. & Nel, V., 2020. Towards an understanding of proactive upzoning globally & in South Africa. Land Use Policy, 97(September): 104708
Ferranti, E., Andres, L., Denoon-Stevens, S.P., Melgaço, L., Oberling, D., & Quinn, A. 2020. Operational Challenges & Mega Sporting Events Legacy: The Case of BRT Systems in the Global South. Sustainability, 12(4): 1609
Marais, L., Denoon-Stevens, S. & Cloete, J. 2020. Mining towns & urban sprawl in South Africa. Land Use Policy, 93(April): 103953
Nel, V. & Denoon-Stevens, S.P. 2020. Proactive Rezoning to Promote Inclusive Densification. Chapter in Rubin, M., Harrision, P., Todes, A., & Appelbaum, A. Eds. Densifying the City? Global Cases & Johannesburg (276-283). Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishers.
2019
Denoon-Stevens, S.P. 2019. Matjhabeng: Planning in the face of the Free State Goldfields Decline. Chapter in Marais, L & Nel, V. Eds. Space & planning in secondary cities: Reflections from South Africa (115-139). Bloemfontein, SUN Media.
Denoon-Stevens, S.P. & Mocwagae, K. 2019. The potential of the University of the Free State QwaQwa campus to enable growth of the economy of QwaQwa. Town & Regional Planning, 74 (December): 1-11
Marais, L., Cloete, J., van Rooyen, D., Denoon-Stevens, S.P., & Nel, V. 2019. Place attachment & social disruption in Postmasburg, a rapidly growing South African mining town. GeoJournal, 84(1): 71-83
2018
Cloete, J. & Denoon-Stevens, S.P. 2018. Mineworker housing. Chapter in Marais, L., Burger, P. & van Rooyen, D., Eds. Community & Mining in South Africa: from Small Town to Iron Town (141-156). London, Routledge.
Denoon-Stevens, S.P., Nel, V. & Mphambukeli, T. 2018. Spatial planning for Postmasburg. Chapter in Marais, L., Burger, P. & van Rooyen, D., Eds. Community & Mining in South Africa: from Small Town to Iron Town (77-96). London, Routledge.
Denoon-Stevens, S.P., & Ramaila, E. 2018. Community facilities in previously disadvantaged areas of South Africa. Development Southern Africa, 35(4): 432-449
Marais, L., Cloete, J., & Denoon-Stevens, S.P. 2018. Informal settlements & mine development: reflections from South Africa’s periphery. Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining & Metallurgy, 118(10): 1103-1111
Marais, L., Van Rooyen, D., Burger, P., Lenka, M., Cloete, J., Denoon-Stevens, S.P., Mocwagae, K., Jacobs, M. & Riet, J., 2018. The background to the Postmasburg study. Chapter in Marais, L., Burger, P. & van Rooyen, D., Eds. Community & Mining in South Africa: from Small Town to Iron Town (5-22). London, Routledge.
2017 & earlier
Denoon-Stevens, S.P. 2017. Book Review: SPLUMA: A Practical Guide. Town & Regional Planning, 71(1): 36-37
Denoon-Stevens, S.P. 2016. Developing an appropriate land use methodology to promote spatially just, formal retail areas in developing countries: The case of the City of Cape Town, South Africa. Land Use Policy, Vol 54 (July): 18-28
Denoon-Stevens, S.P. 2014. Using land use management to create transit-friendly cities. Chapter in How to build Transit Oriented Cities (97-118). Johannesburg, South African Cities Network.
Denoon-Stevens, S.P. 2014. The role of Land Management in Shaping (or Preventing) the Creation of Sustainable Human Settlements. Chapter in From Housing to Human Settlements: Evolving Perspectives (124-148). Johannesburg, South African Cities Network.
Görgens, T., & Denoon-Stevens, S.P. 2013. Towards Facilitative & Pro-poor Land-Use Management in South African Urban Areas: Learning from International Experience. Urban Forum, 24(1): 85–103