Why do we need urban-system integrators?
The African continent is undergoing a series of exciting, and daunting transitions. Changes in technological primacy, climate patterns, work and…
New brief unpacks KTP lessons
If we acknowledge that urban theory thrives on practice and urban practice is blind without theory, then creating spaces where…
Complex Cities, Compelling Stories
A new Cityscapes Magazine podcast series featuring stories that explore the complexities of life and the impact of dynamic change in contemporary…
News
CALL FOR PAPERS | African Infrastructural Futures: Urban research debates and priorities
Reframing the sustainable urban infrastructure debatesDuring September-October 2020, African Centre for Cities co-convened the REframe Conversation Series to explore how…
OPPORTUNITY: Basel Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Call for ApplicationsThis Postdoctoral Research Fellowship is linked to the University of Cape Town and University of Basel Professorship in…
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…
Why do we need urban-system integrators?
The African continent is undergoing a series of exciting, and daunting transitions. Changes in technological primacy, climate patterns, work and…
Climate compatible urban development: building healthier relationships between people, water and carbon across Africa
What does it entail to make African cities climate compatible and climate resilient? Many African urban residents, businesses and public…
Incorporating cultural mapping, cultural planning and impact assessment into policy development for sustainable and just urban futures
Funded by the European Union, through the SA-EU Dialogue Facility Project, this dialogue brought together a variety of South African and…
Research
Incorporating cultural mapping, cultural planning and impact assessment into policy development for sustainable and just urban futures
Funded by the European Union, through the SA-EU Dialogue Facility Project, this dialogue brought together a variety of South African and…
Holding government accountable for cultural sustainability and just urban development
Funded by the European Union, through the SA-EU Dialogue Facility Project, this dialogue brought together a variety of South African and…
Cultural mapping, planning and impact assessment for sustainable urban development
Funded by the European Union, through the SA-EU Dialogue Facility Project, this dialogue brought together a variety of South African and…
Strengthening urban policy to address cultural diversity: Good practice case studies from Europe and Africa
Funded by the European Union, through the SA-EU Dialogue Facility Project, this dialogue brought together a variety of South African…
Geographical interventions into debates regarding ‘men who have sex with men’ (MSM)
Geographical interventions into debates regarding ‘men who have sex with men’ (MSM), authored by Andrew Tucker is published in Gender,…
Culture, Sustainability and Urban Innovation
Without culture, cities as vibrant life-spaces do not exist; they are merely concrete and steel constructions, prone to social degradation…
Events
CALL FOR PAPERS | African Infrastructural Futures: Urban research debates and priorities
Reframing the sustainable urban infrastructure debatesDuring September-October 2020, African Centre for Cities co-convened the REframe Conversation Series to explore how…
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…
Unpacking co-production in second AURI workshop
The second workshop, co-hosted by African Urban Research Initiative (AURI) and Mistra Urban Futures programme, focused on knowledge co-production, and…
From lifestyle disease to food systems disease
Obesity among children in South Africa has increased from approximately 1 in 20 children in 2005, to 1 in 8 children in…
New report on cities’ central role in meeting the challenges of our time
There is a new bullishness to the global narrative around cities and climate change. Buoyed by the explicit recognition given…
ACC partners with RISE Africa to host new urban action festival
The RISE Africa platform, together with its partners, will host its first annual event that brings together Africa’s urban thinkers,…
