ACC will have a strong presence at the World Urban Forum, and will be participating in a number of events.
| Date | Time and venue | Event title | Organisers | ACC participants | ||||
| 8 April | 14:00 – 16:00(Yellow Pavilion – Room 4) | Networking event (NE 4): A debate on new formal housing policies: building a just City? | Global Urban Research Centre (GURC), School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester | Edgar Pieterse (speaker) | ||||
| 8 April | 16:00 –18:15 (UN-HABITAT Pavilion – City Changer Room A) | The urban legal guide: growing a dialogue between Latin American and African countries. | African Centre for Cities, UCT | Stephen Berrisford (Convenor and speaker) | ||||
| 8 April | 16:30 – 18:30(Red Pavilion – Room 19) | Networking event (NE 42): Harnessing economic potential: street vending, enterprise growth, and urban equity. | Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) | Caroline Skinner (convenor) | ||||
| 9 April | 10:00 – 11:00 (Palacio de Exposiciones- Salón Medellín) | Slum urbanism: notes towards a framework for transformation. | Grupo Argos | Edgar Pieterse (speaker) | ||||
| 9 April | 12:00-13:00 (Yellow Pavilion – Room number 8) | Side Event (SE 8) Urban Equity: Looking back/Moving forward | N-Aerus (Network-Association for European Researchers on Urbanization in the South) | Edgar Pieterse (speaker) | ||||
| 9 April | 14:00 – 16:00(Yellow Pavilion –Room 12) | Networking event (NE 58): Planning differently: community-based slum upgrading studios. | Association of African Planning Schools (AAPS) | Nancy Odendaal (convenor) | ||||
| 9 April | 14:45 –15:45 (Urban Library) | Book launch: A tale of 10 cities: findings from the Informal Economy Monitoring Study. | Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) | Caroline Skinner (convenor) | ||||
| 10 April | 16:00 – 18:00(UN-HABITAT Pavilion – City Changer Room) | LSE Cities World Urban Forum Session:Cities and the new climate economy: infrastructure, innovation and the spatial fix. | LSE Cities | Edgar Pieterse (chair) |