WAKE UP, THIS IS JOBURG: ORDINARY TO OUTRAGEOUS ETHNOGRAPHIES OF URBAN LIFE, is a series of ten photobooks by Tanya Zack and Mark Lewis about the city we hate to love but do anyway. Wake up, this is Joburg tells the stories of ten ordinary, interesting, odd or outrageous denizens of the city of Johannesburg. The...
In this talk, Colin McFarlane and Jonathan Silver will reflect on their past work in Mumbai and their new research on the politicisation of sanitation in Cape Town, with particular reference to the ‘poo protests’. Colin will reflect on his work in the politics of sanitation in Mumbai's informal settlements. He will draw out some key...
THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE Speakers: Dr. Martín Ávila (Design for Sustainable Development at Konstfack Art and Design Institute in Stockholm) and Dr. Henrik Ernstson (African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town & KTH Environmental Humanities, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm). Based in the emergent...
In this Brownbag presentation, Dr Robert Buckley will be presenting on 'The Housing Affordability Challenge: What Are the Questions?' Abstract In the past few years, sixteen developing countries have mounted multi-billion-dollar urban subsidy programs. Unfortunately, as currently structured, very few of these programs will help address the housing challenges faced by cities. They are deeply...
Waste Ventures in East Africa: a critical examination of the science, collection models and innovative technologies being employed by urban planners in Kenya and Tanzania In this Brownbag, Josh Palfreman will be reflecting on the science, collection models and innovative technologies being employed by urban planners in Kenya and Tanzania in an effort to manage solid waste....
Ian Palmer and Stephen Berrisford will share an overview of the key findings of the DFID land based financing project, focussing on land value capture and infrastructure finance in Sub-Saharan Africa. Overview: The rapid growth of African Cities brings with it a burgeoning demand for infrastructure. But the finance available to cities to build this...
In this brown bag, Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk will introduce a working concept for new ways of understanding Cape Town. Overview: This concept presentation considers the mapping, naming, routing, disambiguations, planning, and compartmentalising of contemporary Cape Town. Using as a basis the idea of an atlas containing multiple maps of the city, this project considers expansions, degradings, mergings...
PLEASE NOTE THIS BROWN BAG HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE AS UCT STUDENTS ARE PROTESTING FOR FAIR FEES. In this brown bag, Dr Rick Miller will be giving a talk on informal settlements in Mongolia. Overview This talk will begin by introducing informal settlement in Ulaanbaatar - the ‘ger districts’. I will start by noting how Mongolia’s forms of...
In this Brown Bag, Lauren Hermanus will introduce the work of the Massive Small Collective, which seeks to make connections between small-scale urban sustainable development and resilience thinking. The Massive Small Collective understands resilience as social, economic and environmental sustainability under conditions of dynamic complexity. As individuals, households, businesses, and governments are faced with increasing...