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    Visualising the Future of Our Neighbourhoods

    This film documents the “South African City Futures: Visualising the Futures of our Neighbourhoods” project undertaken in 2014. Part research and part radical co-creation, the project combined the use of futures thinking, multi-stakeholder dialogue, and multiple forms of visualisation to reflect upon the future of urban neighbourhoods to 2030

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    Visualising the Future of Our Neighbourhoods

    This film documents the “South African City Futures: Visualising the Futures of our Neighbourhoods” project undertaken in 2014. Part research and part radical co-creation, the project combined the use of futures thinking, multi-stakeholder dialogue, and multiple forms of visualisation to reflect upon the future of urban neighbourhoods to 2030

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    The City is the People

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    Book Review: The Art of Public Space

    Kim Gurney takes readers through Johannesburg via three arts projects. It is a journey that gives a unique insight into the potential of public art to fashion new public imaginaries of common space says LSE’s Kate Dawson. Read the full book review  by Kate Dawson here.    

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    Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia and Informality in SA

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    Cities & Development

    This lecture was delivered by Professor Manuel Castells during his visit to Cape Town in 2009.

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    Conflict and State Fragility

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    Urbanisation and the Continent: The Big Picture

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    Space, Affect, Security: Reflections on ‘Outcharming’ Crime in the City

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    The Informal Sectors Role in Food Security: The Missing Link in South African Policy Debates?

    A presentation by Caroline Skinner and Gareth Haysom as part of the African Centre for Cities Academic Seminar Series, Cape Town, 24 August, 2016.   The presentation is entitled The Informal Sectors Role in Food Security:  The Missing Link in South African Policy Debates?  

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    The International Context: Statistics and Schools of Thought

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    Informal Food Retailers – Undervalued, Ignored and Abused?

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    What does a ‘smart’ African city look like?

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    Scientists must have a say in the future of cities

    A United Nations conference seeks urban sustainability. But the agenda will fail without input from researchers, warn Timon McPherson Sue Parnell, Aromar Revi and colleagues.

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    Collective (in) efficacy, substance abuse and violence in ‘‘Freedom Park,’’ Cape Town

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    Informal settlement upgrading and safety: experiences from Cape Town, South Africa

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    Narrative and value articulation of contested green spaces in Cape Town, New York and London

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    Seminar: Emancipation in an Urban Century

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    The Urban Action Lab at Makerere University is in action!

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