Richard Ballard

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Urban and Rural Development Challenges(23), South African History and Culture(20), Legal Issues in South Africa(17), Urban Planning and Governance(11), Local Economic Development and Planning(11)

Publications95 total

Infrastructures to work: Tracing the labour footprint of large urban infrastructure projects
Geoforum·2026Open Access
The effect of pH on the mechanical properties of beta titanium orthodontic arch wires
European Oral Research·2025Open Access
Building Volume per Capita: A Crowding Metric of Housing Disparities in Gauteng, South Africa
Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science·2025
Assessing AudaxCeph®’s cephalometric tracing technology versus a semi-automated approach for analyzing severe Class II and Class III skeletons
International Orthodontics·2024· 2 cited
Migration and moving home: Findings from the GCRO's Quality of Life survey 7 (2023/24)
Data brief·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Patterns of voter participation in the 2019 elections
Map of the month·2023Open Access
Statistical surprises: Key results from Census 2022 for Gauteng
2023· 5 citedOpen Access
Johannesburg fire disaster: why eradicating hijacked buildings is not the answer
2023· 1 cited
Building volume per person in Gauteng
Map of the month·2023Open Access
Post-Fordism and urban inequality: the case of Johannesburg
City·2023
Comparison of AudaxCeph®’s fully automated cephalometric tracing technology to a semi-automated approach by human examiners
International Orthodontics·2022· 23 cited
Apprehensions of Social Change
2022· 2 cited
Everyday Resistance
2022· 3 cited
The Routledge Handbook of Social Change
2022· 15 cited
<i><b>On the afterlives of colonialism</b></i>
Journal of Southern African Studies·2022
Imagining South Africa: A conceptual framework
Gauteng City-Region Observatory eBooks·2022
The geography of desegregation in Johannesburg
Map of the month·2022Open Access
Introduction: The urbanisation of imagination in South Africa
Gauteng City-Region Observatory eBooks·2022
Gauteng’s urban land cover growth: 1990-2020
Map of the month·2022· 2 citedOpen Access
Spatial trends in Gauteng
Occasional paper·2021· 10 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Christian Hamann(9), Gareth A. Jones(3), Lester F. Eastwood(3), Philip Harrison(2), Siân Butcher(2), Andrew G. Chapple(2), Paul Armbruster(2), Thembani Mkhize(2), Ngaka Mosiane(2), Clive Barnett(2), Graeme Götz(2), Brij Maharaj(2), Yashena Naidoo(2), E. Jeffrey Popke(1), Margot Rubin(1), Romain Dittgen(1), Alison Todes(1), Britta Ristau(1), Mark Coreil(1), M. Patrick Ngwenya(1)