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    Call for abstracts: Representing urban life in Africa and its diasporas

    It is now widely acknowledged that cities are growing faster in Africa than almost any other region. As our urban populations are burgeoning, so urban art of all kinds is flourishing on the continent, as well as in African diasporas in the global North and South. However, analysed predominantly through developmentalist lenses, as problematic sites […]

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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 Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South

    The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South offers an edited collection on planning in parts of the world which, more often than not, are unrecognised or unmarked in mainstream planning texts. In doing so, its intention is not to fill a ‘gap’ that leaves this ‘mainstream’ unquestioned but to re-theorise planning from a deep […]

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    Companion to Planning in the Global South

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    Urban Planning in the Global South

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    The South African Informal Sector: Creating Jobs, Reducing Poverty

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

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    Informal Sector Employment: Policy Reflectors

    A presentation by Caroline Skinner for a policy conference convened by the Employment, Income Distribution and Inclusive Growth project in Pretoria on the 28 and 29th of November, 2016.    

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    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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    African dreams: locating urban infrastructure in the 2030 sustainable developmental agenda

    ABSTRACT This paper examines African urban infrastructure and service delivery as an entry point for connecting African aspirations with the harsh developmental imperatives of urban management, creating a dialogue between scholarly knowledge and sustainable development policy aspirations. (more…)

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    Global urban policymaking in Africa: A view from Angola through the redevelopment of the Bay of Luanda

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    “Measurement drives diagnosis and response”: Gaps in transferring food security assessment to the urban scale

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    Addressing food security in African cities

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  • Urban Humanities Seminar Series: Prof Sophie Oldfield “High Stakes, High Hopes: Creating Collaborative Urban Theory”

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    Urban Humanities Seminar Series: Avril Joffe and Zayd Minty: Exploring cultural and urban policy coalitions

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