Fighting Urban Corruption in Fast-Growing African Cities
Corruption in Urban Planning: A Guide for Professional and Trainee Planners is a guide developed in partnership with researchers at the African Centre for Cities, geared towards understanding and addressing the impact of corruption on Sub-Saharan cities.
Democracy and the Life of Cities
Democracy and the Life of Cities examines and challenges the role of cities in generating and strengthening democratic practices as authoritarianism rises across much of the world.
Country Synthesis Report: Africa’s Urban Boom – Harnessing The Potential
In this country synthesis report, the PEAK Urban programme shares lessons from research in South Africa, with implications for global policy and practice.
Zeit Stiftung Fellowship awarded to ACC’s Alicia Fortuin
ACC PhD candidate and research fellow Alicia Fortuin was awarded a Zeit Stiftung Fellowship.
ACC partners with Big Win on initiative to catalyse the transformation of cities in Africa
African Centre for Cities has partnered with Big Win Philanthropy on a ground-breaking initiative to catalyse the transformation of cities in Africa: the African Mayoral Leadership Initiative (AMALI).
News
Fighting Urban Corruption in Fast-Growing African Cities
Corruption in Urban Planning: A Guide for Professional and Trainee Planners is a guide developed in partnership with researchers at the African Centre for Cities, geared towards understanding and addressing the impact of corruption on Sub-Saharan cities.
Research Officer/Senior Research Officer: AMALI Data Programme
The African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town invite applications for three full time Research Officers or Senior Research Officers for a two-year period (1 June 2023 – 31 May 2025).
Zeit Stiftung Fellowship awarded to ACC’s Alicia Fortuin
ACC PhD candidate and research fellow Alicia Fortuin was awarded a Zeit Stiftung Fellowship.
Pathways to transform urban food system
An action research compass for strengthening the informal sector’s role in achieving the right to food.
DAAD Call for Scholarship Applications 2024 – MPhil Southern Urbanism
The African Centre for Cities, through Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) are calling for scholarship applications for 2024.Â
Second call for applications: Associate Professor or Professor in Urban Studies
The African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town and Urban Studies at the University of Basel invite applications for a full time Associate Professor or Professor in Urban Studies.
Research
Fighting Urban Corruption in Fast-Growing African Cities
Corruption in Urban Planning: A Guide for Professional and Trainee Planners is a guide developed in partnership with researchers at the African Centre for Cities, geared towards understanding and addressing the impact of corruption on Sub-Saharan cities.
Democracy and the Life of Cities
Democracy and the Life of Cities examines and challenges the role of cities in generating and strengthening democratic practices as authoritarianism rises across much of the world.
Country Synthesis Report: Africa’s Urban Boom – Harnessing The Potential
In this country synthesis report, the PEAK Urban programme shares lessons from research in South Africa, with implications for global policy and practice.
Pathways to transform urban food system
An action research compass for strengthening the informal sector’s role in achieving the right to food.
Geographies of gender and sexuality I: Engaging the shift towards Southern urbanism
Andrew Tucker has authored a new paper entitled Geographies of gender and sexuality I: Engaging the shift towards Southern urbanism, published in Progress in Human Geography.
theoriSE: debating the southeastern turn in urban theories
African Centre for Cities is delighted to publish theoriSE: debating the southeastern turn in urban studies, edited by Oren Yiftachel and Nisa Mammon.Â
Events
Call for participation: UTA-Do African Cities Workshop 2023
Calling all early-career academics, researchers, activists, and artists interested in urban theory in Africa! Apply now to be a part of the second UTA-DO African Cities Workshop in 2023.Â
POWER TALKS: a space for conversation about power in the creative and cultural sectors in South Africa
A multidisciplinary, multi-site programme in Gqeberha & Bhisho, Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg, which allows for a disruption of the performativity of critical debate that often skirts dissensus and discomfort in the dissection of power.
Laying the Table for a Better Food System
Urban Food Systems is one of the key thematics of ACC’s research, and we seeks different ways and platforms to…
Reconstructing the future for people and planet
The Pontifical Academy of Sciences (PAS) and Bauhaus Earth bring together world-renowned practitioners and thinkers on crucial dimensions of the…
CALL FOR PAPERS | African Infrastructure Futures: Urban research, debates and priorities
The African Centre for Cities will be hosting a three-day conference entitled African Infrastructural Futures: Urban research, debates and priorities,…
Nobel Week Dialogue: The City of the Future
Take a second to picture your future home: what do you want it to be like? For well over half…
