Prof AC Horn

Expertise

• Historiography
• Human Geography
• Land Restitution
• Population Geography
• School and Residential segregation / desegregation
• Urban Geography

Qualifications

• BA Geography University of Pretoria 1979
• HED Education University of Pretoria 1980
• BA (Hons) Geography University of Pretoria 1981
• MA Geography (Cum Laude) (UP, 1987)
• DPhil Geography (UP, 1998)
• Non-degree purposes (Geoinformatics) UNI780 UNI783 UNI787 University of Pretoria 2003

NRF Rating

Currently teaching

• GGH3704 - Development of Urban Space

Fields of academic interests

• Urban geography (Pretoria-Tshwane)
• Social geography (Pretoria-Tshwane)

Field of Specialisation

• Urban geography
• Social geography

Books

(Prior to 2020: 8)

• 2021           
  Pretoria-Tshwane: Past, present and future urban changes, In A Lemon, R Donaldson and G Visser (eds) South African Urban Change Three Decades After Apartheid, pp. 81-102. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, pp. 81-102.
• 2020           
  Arsenic contamination of soil in relation to water in northeastern South Africa. In A Fares and SK Singh (eds) Advances in Water Security. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, pp. 157-177. ISSN2523-3572 / 2523-3589 (electronic) doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21258-2. (First author with MR Ramudzuli).

Journal articles

(Prior to 2020: 21)

• 2021             
  Socio-economic inequality in the City of Tshwane, South Africa: a multivariable spatial analysis at the neighbourhood level. GeoJournal (e-publication). (Second author with C Hamann).
• 2020             
  Growth, exclusion and vulnerability: evaluation of the socio-spatial transformation of post-apartheid Pretoria-Tshwane (South Africa). Boletin de la Asociacion de Geografos Espanoles (87 (e-publication).

Paper presentations

International Conferences

• An Agenda for the Study of Crime, Violence and Disorder in the International Arena. Annual Meeting of the International Geographical Union Urban Commission, 1-4 August 2009, Hyderabad, India.
• A Common Theory and Language of Crime? – A South African Perspective. 2009 ISA-RC21 Conference: Inequality, Inclusion and the Sense of Belonging, 25-29 August 2009, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• A Decade of Change in Learner Racial Desegregation: Tshwane, 2000-2010. Annual Meeting of the International Geographical Union Urban Commission, 14-20 August 2011, Christ Church University, Canterbury (UK).
• Identity and Democracy: the Renaming of Pretoria, South Africa’s Capital City. European Conference of the Regional Studies Association, 14-18 May , Delft, The Netherlands.
• From Segregation to Fragmentation: Race and Income Distribution Change in Tshwane, South Africa. Meeting of the International Geographical Union Urban Commission, 21-27 August 2012, Dortmund,Germany.
• School Desegregation in South Africa. Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Conference, 30 July – 1 August 2013, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Contextualizing Two Decades of Socio-spatial Change in South African Cities. (Submitted for consideration for inclusion in the printed proceedings of the 2014 meeting of the IGU Urban Commission, 11-14 August 2014, Poznan, Poland). (Co-presenter with C Hamann) [Forthcoming]
• The Growing Discrepancy Between School and Residential Populations in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Submitted for consideration for inclusion in the printed proceedings of the 2014 meeting of the IGU Urban Commission, 11-14 August 2014, Poznan, Poland). (Co-presenter with C Hamann) [Forthcoming]

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

• NRF C2
• Member: IGU Urban Commission (since 2000)

Projects

• Socio-economic dynamics of the City of Tshwane
• Desegregation of schools in the City of Tshwane
• Rural land history and land reform in the Northern Provinces