Part 1 of 4. Professor Jo Beall on some of the findings from the Cities and Fragile States research project which she has led for the last 10 years. This research has so far been conducted in Ahmedabad, Arua, Bogota, Dar-es-Salaam, Goma, Gulu, Kabul, Kampala, Karachi, Kigali, Kinshasa, Managua, Maputo, Medellin, Quetta and seeks to the relationship between cities and states, whilst also locating cities within regional and global contexts. This video was shot at the University of Cape Town as part of the African Centre for Cities’ Seminar Series