| Spluma, zoning and effective land use management in South Africa V Nel Urban Forum 27, 79-92, 2016 | 73 | 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 | 54 | 2020 |
| A better zoning system for South Africa? V Nel Land Use Policy 55, 257-264, 2016 | 45 | 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 | 41 | 2017 |
| Putting spatial resilience into practice A Barnes, V Nel Urban Forum 28, 219-232, 2017 | 34 | 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 | 26 | 2021 |
| 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 | 24 | 2016 |
| 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 | 22 | 2022 |
| 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 | 22 | 2022 |
| Introduction F Banda, DS Mwanza Multilingual Margins: A journal of Multilingualism from the Periphery 7 (3), 2020 | 20 | 2020 |
| 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 | 19 | 2019 |
| Space and planning in secondary cities: reflections from South Africa L Marais, V Nel UJ Press, 2019 | 19 | 2019 |
| Resilience and climate change in rural areas: a review of infrastructure policies across global regions I Chirisa, V Nel Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure 7 (5), 380-390, 2022 | 14 | 2022 |
| Complex adaptive systems as a theoretical tool in urban planning V Nel Stads-En Streeksbeplanning= Town and Regional Planning 2009 (55), 24-30, 2009 | 14 | 2009 |
| Governance for resilient smart cities D Nel, V Nel Transformative Planning, 90-99, 2021 | 13 | 2021 |
| 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 | 12 | 2011 |
| The political economy of COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned from the responses of local government in sub-Saharan Africa AR Matamanda, V Nel, N Chanza, L Leboto-Khetsi, F Mangara, ... Local Government and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Global Perspective, 103-128, 2022 | 11 | 2022 |
| Mahikeng: Where traditional leadership and development frameworks collide J Drummond, V Nel South African Urban Change Three Decades After Apartheid: Homes Still Apart …, 2021 | 11 | 2021 |
| Mahikeng: A remote provincial capital with a turbulent history V Nel, J Drummond Space and planning in secondary cities: Reflections from South Africa, 87-114, 2019 | 11 | 2019 |
| 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 | 11 | 2018 |
Maléne (Maria) (MM) CampbellAssociate Professor, University of the Free StateVerifierad e-postadress på ufs.ac.za