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SUMMARY:Kapuscinski Development Lecture: Aromar Revi
DESCRIPTION:Putting the Urban at the Heart of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals\nThe Millennium Development Goals are expiring and need to be replaced with a new set of globally applicable and locally implementable Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030. Climate Change negotiations are stalled and need a more determined and pragmatic approach if run-away impacts are to be avoided. It is clear that a different economic\, social and human development path must be established to ensure greater sustainability and inclusion of all citizens into productive economic life and well-being. Cities and regions across the world provide the opportunity to do this. Africa and Asia are at the centre of the urban\, social and economic transitions that the world will witness over the next two decades. It is important that we see political imaginations and leadership from these geographies that address local\, regional and global themes.\nThe lecture will interest policy makers\, activists\, business leaders\, journalists and academics. \nAbout the speaker:\nAromar Revi is Director of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) India’s prospective independent national University for Research & Innovation addressing its challenges of urbanisation. He has been a senior advisor to various ministries of the Government of India\, and has consulted for a wide range of UN\, multilateral\, bilateral development and private sector institutions. He is a member of the Leadership Council of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)\, co-chair of its urban thematic group\, and a Fellow of the India China Institute at the New School\, New York. A global expert on sustainable urban development\, he has co-led a successful international campaign for an urban Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) as part of the UN’s post-2015 development agenda\, which brought the major global urban institutions and over 200 cities and institutions together. He has led over 100 major research\, consulting and implementation assignments in India and abroad. He has helped structure\, design and review development investments in excess of $8 billion\, including housing and urban development plans for two-thirds of India’s 29 states in the 1990s. Besides being part of multiple international projects in 6 countries\, he has worked on 3 of the world’s 10 largest cities\, and with communities across 25 Indian states. A leading expert on Global Environmental Change especially on Climate Change adaptation and mitigation\, he is one of the Coordinating Lead Authors for the Urban Areas section of the IPCC 5th Assessment report (2014)\, and co-PI of an international Climate Adaptation research programme than spans India and Africa. He is one of South Asia’s leading disaster mitigation and management experts and has led emergency teams to assess\, plan and execute recovery and rehabilitation programmes for 10 major earthquake\, cyclone\, surge and flood events affecting over 5 million people\, and serves on the Advisory Board of the UNISDR Scientific & Technical Advisory Group and its Global Assessment of Risk.\nThe Kapuscinski Development Lectures are a series of high-level lectures focused on development-related issues organized jointly by the United Nations Development Programme\, the European Community and leading universities and think-tanks. There have been over 50 lectures by top development thinkers since 2009. The lectures honour Ryszard Kapuscinski\, the celebrated Polish writer and journalist who covered developing countries. Past lectures have been delivered by\, among others\, Aung San Suu Kyi\, Ashraf Ghani\, Jagdish Bhagwati\, Helen Clark\, Jan Pronk\, Jeffrey Sachs\, José Antonio Ocampo\, Kamal Dervis\, Mark Malloch-Brown\, Michelle Bachelet and Paul Collier.  See: http://kapuscinskilectures.eu\nThe Kapuscinski Development Lecture in Cape Town is a joint initiative of the European Commission\, the United Nations Development Programme\, the African Centre for Cities\, and the University of Cape Town. The project is funded by the European Commission.\nPlease take your seats from 5:45 as the lecture is being streamed live and will start at 6:00 promptly.\nRSVP maryam.waglay@uct.ac.za using subject line “Kapuscinski Development Lecture”\n \n            
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LOCATION:Lecture Hall 3B\, New Snape Building\, University of Cape Town\, Cape Town\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Density Syndicate Conference
DESCRIPTION:   \n \n \nThe Density Syndicate Think Tank invites you to participate in the presentation of a seven-month project by three multi-disciplinary teams of South African and Dutch designers\, city officials and researchers looking at the future of three urban sites in Cape Town. As part of the City Desired Exhibition\, project contributors\, key City officials and a select number of stakeholders will convene on 3 November 2014 at the City Hall to review and discuss findings.\nTwenty years after democracy\, South African cities remain stubbornly divided\, fragmented\, inconvenient for the poor and uninspiring. This has manifested in cities made up of a patchwork of disconnected business districts\, wealthy neighbourhoods\, gated communities and poor townships. In the case of Cape Town\, the affluent City Bowl and southern and northern suburbs stand in contrast to large swathes of township and informal areas. Despite considerable deracialisation of lower middle-class suburbs\, the townships and informal areas remain profoundly mono-functional\, racially homogenous and most vulnerable to a multiplicity of risks. It is uncontested that the current situation is socially\, economically and ecologically unsustainable\, yet\, despite the availability of urban design expertise and policy commitment to transformation\, we have very few compelling examples of how we can imagine and build our city differently. In order to explore how to address these challenges\, ACC and INTI have worked with the City of Cape Town on a series of three speculative studios. By using the combined design intelligence of Dutch and South African specialists\, The Density Syndicate has enabled the exploration of innovative\, alternative strategies for the future of Cape Town.\nThe symposium will shed light on the proposed scenarios and will invite key stakeholders from local government\, academia and mass media to provide feedback on their appropriateness\, viability and desirability. The format provides a platform for authors to exhibit the proposal and for  key ‘respondents’ to immediately interrogate proposals and raise questions for debate. Animated deliberations are expected to set the tone for an enlightening symposium.\nThe sites studied by the Density Syndicate are the following:\nLOTUS PARK\nLotus Park is a small informal settlement situated between the Khayelitsha-Cape Town train line and the Lotus River Canal. Lotus Park is adjacent to western forecourt of the Nyanga Junction station. The Lotus Park team focused on: maintaining existing density to avoid any relocation; consider how best to optimise mixed use (economic\, social and cultural) planning; taking the Lotus River into account in advancing sustainability planning principles.\nMAITLAND\nVoortrekker Road stretches around 15km from Woodstock in central Cape Town\, through Maitland\, Goodwood\, and Parow to Bellville. It is a busy transport corridor between Bellville and the CBD and is lined with a range of small businesses and light industry. Of particular interest to this project is the Maitland stretch of the corridor. There is a significant unrecognised African immigrant population living and running small businesses in the area and offers another kind of opportunity for exploring density and diversity in Cape Town. In particular\, it offers an opportunity to explore a different model of urban regeneration to what has unfolded in the Woodstock and Salt River stretches\, anchored by creative industries and high-end retail and fine dining.\nTRUP-PLUS + GREENFIELDS STRIP\nThe TRUP-plus+ site is a greenfield strip that includes the Two Rivers Urban Park and the Athlone Power Station. Situated halfway between the airport and the Cape Town CBD\, the decommissioned Athlone Power Station site is uniquely located between three very different suburbs: Pinelands\, a predominantly middle class ‘white’ suburb; Athlone\, a predominantly ‘coloured’ neighbourhood’; and Langa\, a largely poor ‘black’ area. The TRUP-plus+ offers a unique opportunity of experimenting with possibilities of social integration at the nexus of these suburbs.\nThe Density Syndicate held two studios: one in May and one in July 2014. Participants include representatives from: African Centre for Cities (SA); Cape Town Partnership (SA); City of Cape Town Spatial Planning & Urban Design (SA); Community Organisation Resource Centre (SA); dhk urban (SA); Doepel Strijkers (NL); H+N+S Landscape Architects (NL); International New Town Institute (NL); Jakupa architects + urban designers (SA); Land+Civilization Compositions (NL); Provincial Department of Human Settlements (SA); Sustainability Institute (SA); Urban Water Management Research Unit (SA); Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading (SA); Witteveen+Bos (NL); Uberbau (GER); NL Architects (NL).\nConference Programme will be uploaded soon. Watch this space!\n \nThe Density Syndicate is a think-tank initiative by the African Centre for Cities (ACC)\, International New Town Institute (INTI)\, and in collaboration with the City of Cape Town and Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading (VPUU). It has been made possible by the City of Cape Town\, the Dutch Creative Industries Fund\, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and the Netherlands Consulate General\, Cape Town. It is also a programmatic component for NL@WDC2014\, an initiative of the Netherlands Consulate-General in Cape Town.\nFollow us on Facebook and Twitter @ through #DensitySyndicate or #WDC234
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LOCATION:City Hall\, Darling Street\, Cape Town\, 8001\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Radical Incrementalism & Theories/Practices of Emancipatory Change
DESCRIPTION:This workshop examines ideas of radical incrementalism across our towns and cities. It seeks to explore theories and practices that can support emancipatory change across urban regions through the power of urban dwellers to challenge poverty\, oppression and unjust environments. Such actions and processes take place within and beyond the state and suggest important ways to evaluate prospects for socio-ecological equality across infrastructures\, everyday life and the wider urban condition.\n\nThis workshop is part of a series of conversations that form a collaborative investigation into developing situated ways of undertaking urban political ecology. Each session focuses on different dimensions of critical approaches to urban theory and brings together scholars from different disciplines whose work explores critical understandings of processes of socio-ecological urbanization. We have 17 confirmed participants who will provide a series of keynotes and shorter provocations to support the open debate nature of the workshop.\nSpeakers include: Malini Ranganathan (American University\, Washington D.C.)\, Mark Swilling\, University of Stellenbosch\, Edgar Pieterse (ACC\, UCT)\, Laurence Piper (University of Western Cape)\, Andrew Charman (Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation)\, Jonathan Silver (Durham University)\, and Henrik Ernstson (ACC\, UCT).\n—\nThe workshop starts at 14.00 on Thursday 23rd of October with an afternoon session and keynote by Edgar Pieterse. This is followed by a full day of workshop sessions between 9.00-16.30 on Friday 24th of October\, covering the following themes: “Outlining a radical incrementalism in theory and practice”; “Articulating a radical incrementalism”; “Experiments across infrastructures”; “In and beyond the state”.\nThe event is open to additional students and scholars. Please email Henrik Ernstson (henrik.ernstson@uct.ac.za) or Jonathan Silver (j.d.silver@durham.ac.uk) as soon as possible if you like to attend or have any questions\, or to access detailed background information and schedule. Erin Goodling (Portland State University) will function as rapporteur for this workshop.\n—\nThe workshop is an initiative by the Situated Urban Political Ecologies Collective (#SUPE) and the African Centre for Cities\, University of Cape Town. It forms part of SUPE Year of Conversation 2014.\n 
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/workshop-radical-incrementalism-acc-supe/
LOCATION:Studio 3\, ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Wake up\, this is Joburg!!!
DESCRIPTION: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.\nThe series is published by Fourthwall Books (www.fourthwallbooks.com or www.facebook.com/fourthwallbooks). Note:  A limited number of the four titles will be available for sale at the Brown Bag at R150 each\, cash only.\nTanya Zack will talk to some of the stories of intersections of particular lives\, livelihoods and spaces that make up the first four titles in this series. These are:\nSkop: S’kop  takes readers into a disused parking garage in the inner city\, where cow heads are being chopped. It explores the informal business of chopping cow heads the stories of ‘the butchers and traders and entrepreneurs who have made this business uniquely theirs\, speak of the hardships of their work in the meat trade and the occasional rewards of making it on their own.\nZola: Under the Mooi Street off-ramp is an overflow rank for taxis waiting between peak hours to ferry people between the inner city and Zola\, Soweto. Here entrepreneurs cater all day to the needs of drivers from an array of mobile and stationary stalls\, selling food and snacks\, socks\, window wipers\, mobile phone attachments and bumper stickers with messages like ‘You also drive like shit so fuck off’.\nTony Dreams in Yellow and Blue: In the nondescript working class suburb of Turffontein\, which has always hosted migrants\, a restless outsider artist is at work transforming his home into a veritable castle of lights\, turrets\, murals\, manikins and stairways. He is an obsessive collector of ‘waste’\, but also an entrepreneur whose property is home to 17 rent-paying households.\nInside Out: This is a story of low-end globalisation—of food and other commodities traded and retailed informally across South Africa’s borders by people using the same principles as multinationals\, but with no formal credit or banking facilities.\n \nTanya Zack is a town planner. Her major areas of focus have been in housing research and policy development\, community participation and evaluation of large scale development projects. She has worked within local government and as a private consultant\, both on policy work and in practical projects. She has a close relationship to Wits University where she obtained a PhD for work on critical pragmatism in planning. Tanya grew up in the inner city suburbs of Johannesburg.Her current interest is in the narratives of entrepreneurs working in the Johannesburg CBD.\nImage credit: Mark Lewis
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/wake-joburg-ordinary-outrageous-ethnographies-urban-life/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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SUMMARY:Complicit masculinity on the African urban periphery
DESCRIPTION:In her talk titled “Entrepreneurs and consumers: complicit masculinity on the African urban periphery”\, Dr Jordanna Matlon will explore the relationship between masculinity and work in the double context of protracted economic and political crisis in Abidjan\, Côte d’Ivoire. She draws on participant observation fieldwork and interviews with men in Abidjan’s informal sector from 2008 to 2009\, and is supplemented by visual data. Ivoirian men who engage in informal activities overwhelmingly claim that they cannot be viable marriage partners\, and are thus incapable of achieving adult masculinity. “I examine two groups of men: political propagandists (orators) and mobile street vendors\, to understand how men affirm themselves in the absence of steady and dignifying work”\, she says. Both groups rejected the wage-earning working ideal as “Francophone” and asserted alternative modalities of economic participation as “Anglophone” men: entrepreneurs or consumers. Orators used ties to President Laurent Gbagbo’s political regime to secure livelihoods and pursue entrepreneurial identities. Vendors bypassed the state and asserted consumerist models of black masculinity from across the African diaspora. I employ “complicit masculinity” to examine how a relationship to capital mediates masculine identity. In doing so I demonstrate how men’s desires to counter gendered socioeconomic exclusion generate consent toneoliberal capitalism.\nAbout the speaker\nJordanna Matlon is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse and received her doctorate in Sociology from UC Berkeley in 2012. She uses participant observation\, interviews and visual analysis to study the livelihoods and lifestyles of men in Abidjan\, Côte d’Ivoire’s informal economy.  More generally\, she is interested in questions of race and belonging in Africa and the African diaspora\, and the ways “blackness” as a signifier – and in its intersection with gender\, class\, and national identity – illuminates understandings of popular culture\, postcoloniality and neoliberalism in the contemporary city. Jordanna’s work has appeared in Antipode\, Contexts\, Ethnography and Poetics\, among other places\, and she is currently preparing her book manuscript\, tentatively titled “I will be VIP!”: Masculinity\, Modernity and Crisis on the Neoliberal Periphery.\n \nVideo abstract:\nhttp://antipodefoundation.org/2014/02/17/narratives-of-modernity-masculinity-and-citizenship/
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/entrepreneurs-consumers-complicit-masculinity-african-urban-periphery/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Streets can be more than they are: Exploring Open Streets
DESCRIPTION:Open Streets Cape Town\, despite its short existence\, has succeeded in capturing the imagination of many local residents.\nWith origins in Bogota Colombia in the mid 1970s\, “Open Streets” has become a global movement with increased growth in the past five years. Tactics to explore and reclaim public space are central to the Open Streets philosophy. However\, tactics must be shifted and changed given the location and context. It is in this spirit that this talk will discuss the nature of Open Streets in other cities\, what has been possible in Cape Town to date\, future visions for the Cape Town Open Streets\, and what type of impact the programme\, and similar programmes\, can aim to have in terms of social development\, urban planning and economic opportunity.\nThe discussion will be reflective in nature addressing critical questions such as how can a powerful event translate into a lifestyle? how can it address conflicting uses of the street? and how can it genuinely bridge the spatial divide of our city?\nAbout the Speakers\nMarcela Guerrero Casas was born and raised in Bogota\, Colombia\, Marcela Guerrero Casas is passionate about cities and public space. Marcela holds a Masters in Public Administration and International Affairs from Syracuse University and has worked in policy and advocacy for almost ten years. Marcela moved to Johannesburg in 2006 and worked in Zimbabwe\, Swaziland and Kenya before moving permanently to Cape Town in 2011. In 2012\, Marcela co-founded Open Streets\, a citizen-led organization working to transform how streets are perceived\, utilized and experienced. Marcela is also a co-founder of SUR Collective\, a platform for cultural exchange between Latin American and Sub-Saharan African countries and is currently a contributor to the African Centre for Cities’ Serious Fun.\nDiana Sanchez-Betancourt is a senior researcher at the HSRC. She holds an MA in social sciences from Uppsala Universitet in Sweden and a BA degree in political science and international relations from Universidad Externado in Colombia. She is currently a World Social Sciences Fellow on Sustainable Urbanisation (2013-2015).Her research is trans-disciplinary and her main areas of interest include sustainable urbanisation\, citizen engagement\, social cohesion and collaborative work with Latin America. Amongst other projects Diana coordinates a cross-regional Learning Alliance on citizen engagement and oversight under the international ELLA (Evidence and Lessons from Latin America) programme\, and a study on citizen engagement in the sphere of local government within the Cities Support Programme led by National Treasury. Her most recent work\, to be published\, explores the relationship between public spaces\, social integration and sustainable urbanisation in Cape Town\, where she is also an activist and volunteer around these issues.\n 
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/streets-can-exploring-open-steets/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:In the skin of the city: the street and its doubles
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation\, Anthropologist António Tomás (ACC’s the 2014 Ray Pahl Fellow) will undertake to provide a layered description of the city of Luanda by engaging with a number of ethnographic vignettes based on his wanderings through the city. “Such a methodology has two sources” says Tomás. “First\, I draw on the modernist figure of the flâneur as it was proposed by Charles Baudelaire and theorized by Walter Benjamin. Second\, I also draw on the methods for wandering in the city (later on theorized by de Certeau) that was called psycho-geography by the situationists. I use this methodology in reference to the situationists who developed it as a way to ‘deconstruct’ Le Corbusian’s modernist ambitions in transforming Paris.”\nThis exercise allows Tomás to provide a description not only of the surface of the city (or the city from the surface)\, but to also find a vantage point to “deconstruct” Luanda’s colonial and postcolonial imaginaries. By annalyzing the prevailing practices of anonymous Luandans who give names to streets that disavowal their official designations\, he gains a further understanding of the surface of the city that goes beyond its own (modernist) visibility.\nAbout the author\nAntónio Tomás received his doctoral degree in Anthropology from Columbia University\, New York. He is the author of a study on the African nationalist Amílcar Cabral titled O Fazedor de Utopias: Uma Biografia de Amílcar (The Maker of Utopias: A Biography of Amilcar Cabral (Lisbon [Portugal]; Praia [Cape Verde]\, Tinta da China; Spleen\, 2007; 2008).  Tomás is the 2014 Ray Pahl Fellow at the African Centre for Cities\, working on a book called In the skin of the city: Luanda\, or the dialectics of spatial transformation.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/skin-city-street-doubles/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:Cape Town’s new Development Charges Policy for Engineering Services
DESCRIPTION:The City of Cape Town has recently approved a new Development Charges Policy for Engineering Services.  This policy pins down some vexing questions.  \nWhen land use intensifies the municipality has to increase its infrastructure networks to accommodate the increased demand for services.  There is always a cost to the city\, but who should cover that cost: the developer or the body of ratepayers as a whole?  How should the municipality calculate that amount?  Should socially beneficial land use changes\, like low-income housing have to pay the same as land use changes that are commercially driven?  Should there be a different method of calculating this amount for small or emerging businesses as opposed to big businesses?  Why can’t the costs of extending the infrastructure networks be covered through monthly tariffs for the different services?\nNick Graham and Stephen Berrisford have been part of the professional team\, headed by AECOM\, drafting the new policy for the City of Cape Town.  They are also working on the National Treasury’s process to develop national law and policy on the subject.  They will share their experiences at the ACC’s Brown Bag session and explain the rationale behind the new policy as well as identify some of the implications for the city of the new approach.\nNick Graham is a Director at PDG\, responsible for the Urban Systems Practice Area. He is an urban geographer and registered professional engineer with Masters degrees in civil engineering\, environmental policy and urban geography.\nStephen Berrisford is an independent consultant specialising in the legal and policy frameworks governing urban land and development. He is trained as a lawyer and urban planner\, with degrees from the Universities of Cape Town and Cambridge. He works primarily in southern and eastern Africa as well as on global initiatives for agencies such as UN-Habitat\, Cities Alliance and the World Bank. Stephen is an adjunct associate professor at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town and visiting professor at the University of the Witwatersrand. He was the governance coordinator for the Urban Land Markets Programme Southern Africa (Urban LandMark)\, a UK aid-funded think tank focused on making urban land markets in southern Africa work better for the poor.\nImage credit: Barry Christianson
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/someones-got-pay-background-city-cape-towns-new-development-charges-policy-engineering-services/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140730T150000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140730T163000
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SUMMARY:Political and Affective Ecologies of the City
DESCRIPTION:In her talk\, Dr Karen Till will explore the limitations and possibilities of considering urban ecology as a means to ‘think the city differently’. Her starting premise is simple: how might we begin to challenge dominant paradigms in urban theory\, including resilience and neoliberal speculative urbanisms\, that define ground merely as property and contain time according to desire and fear? Using examples from cities around the world\, the talk will address the concept of the wounded city and a place-based ethics of care according to intersecting urban temporal and spatial meshworks that include: social and material environments\, relational networks\, local pathways\, alternative exchange systems\, affective ecologies\, enacted assemblages\, and urban ecosystem wholeness.\nAbout the speaker\nDr. Karen E. Till is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the National University of Ireland at Maynooth. A cultural and urban geographer\, Karen is working on a book entitled ‘Wounded Cities’. It is a comparative ethnographic project about cities marked by histories of state-perpetrated violence\, with case studies in Berlin\, Bogota\, Cape Town and Dublin.\nRequired Reading\n[button link=”https://www.africancentreforcities.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Till_KE_2012_WoundedCities_PG.pdf” style=”download” color=”red” window=”yes”]Wounded Cities 2012[/button]
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/political-affective-ecologies-city/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140717T180000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140717T193000
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SUMMARY:Critical gaming practices: Alex Apsan Frediani in conversation with Liza Cirolia
DESCRIPTION:Alexandre Apsan Frediani is co-director of the masters programme in Social Development Practice at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit\, University College London (UCL). He has worked extensively in various parts of the world exploring the potential of urban games to address injustices in the city — especially when applied in contexts of informal settlement upgrading.\nIn a wide ranging conversation with Liza Cirolia\, a housing policy specialist who co-convenes the Human Settlements CityLab at African Centre for Cities\, Frediani will discuss the capacity of urban games to creatively engage with social diversity and power relations and foster cross-scalar thinking and share some of his experiences working with Architecture Sans Frontières and in Salvador (Brazil)\, Nairobi (Kenya) and Quito (Ecuador) with local collectives who embedded participatory design initiatives within their wider agenda of deepening democratic practices in the city.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/alexandre-apsan-frediani-critical-gaming-practices/
LOCATION:PROVENANCE AUCTION HOUSE\,  6 - 8 VREDE STREET\, GARDENS\,  CAPE TOWN\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140625T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140625T140000
DTSTAMP:20260604T161805
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SUMMARY:Ronald Wall: Investment flows into African & European cities
DESCRIPTION:In his talk “South Rising? Exploring ten years of investment flows into African and European countries and cities” Ronald Wall compares ten years of investment flows into African and European countries and cities and also shows which social\, economic and spatial location factors are important for attracting these investments and how these differ across the two  regions. Wall includes GIS mapping of the networks and econometric results in his analysis. This will be followed by a discussion on how African cities could use this type of knowledge for development strategies.\n \nAbout the Speaker\nRonald Wall is an economic geographer and urban planner who has worked for various urban planning offices\, governmental organizations and academic institutions. He is head of the economic geography department at the IHS / Erasmus University Rotterdam\, The Netherlands. He specializes in economic network analysis e.g trade and investment flows between cities. Wall has worked on projects in Africa\, The Middle East\, Asia\, Latin America\, and Europe. Over the past 15 years\, the central focus of his work has been the development of resilient urban planning based on interdisciplinary collaboration and by understanding the local\, regional and global network characteristics of cities. He has worked with architects\, scientists\, policymakers and academics – and  won various architectural prizes\, been awarded several research grants and published in leading journals. Wall  lectures at a variety of urban planning and economics schools.\n 
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/south-rising-exploring-ten-years-investment-flows-african-european-countries-cities/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140527T180000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140527T193000
DTSTAMP:20260604T161805
CREATED:20140526T062242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140526T062838Z
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Africa's Urban Revolution
DESCRIPTION:UCT and The Book Lounge will be hosting the launch of Africa’s Urban Revolution\, the new volume edited by Susan Parnell and Edgar Pieterse
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/book-launch-africas-urban-revolution/
LOCATION:Book Lounge\, 71 Roeland Street\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140522T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140522T140000
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SUMMARY:Sub-Saharan Africa's New Suburbs
DESCRIPTION:Remaking the Edges: Sub-Saharan Africa’s New Suburbs — This paper examines the edge areas of Lusaka\, based on fieldwork from 2013\, as a broad example of the trajectory of urban expansion at the new urban frontiers in Sub-Saharan Africa. I emphasize four themes: (1) the significance of new foreign investment in urban frontier zones (particularly from China); (2) the bifurcated character of the expansion; (3) the rise of surveillance technologies; and (4) the endurance of continuities with European colonialism.\nAbout the Speaker:\nGarth Myers is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Urban International Studies at Trinity College. He is Director of the Urban Studies Program. A geographer with thirty years of research experience on and in African cities\, Myers teaches courses in both urban studies and international studies at Trinity. Myers has contributed to the growth of urban studies and geography research on the continent\, through 5 books and more than 60 articles and book chapters. His most recent book is African Cities: Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice (London: Zed Books\, 2011).
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/garth-myers-remaking-edges-sub-saharan-africas-new-suburbs/
LOCATION:Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, Upper Campus\, UCT\,\, Cape Town\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140513T080000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140516T170000
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SUMMARY:Density Syndicate: Studio 01
DESCRIPTION:The Density Syndicate officially kicks off with its first studio on 12 May 2014 at Guga S’Thebe Arts and Culture Centre in Langa. Multi-disciplinary teams\, consisting of Dutch and South African urbanists\, researchers\, and activists will collaborate to develop speculative designs that improve density\, and accommodate social mix in a sustainable way. Participants include representatives from: African Centre for Cities (SA); Arup (SA); Cape Town Partnership (SA); City of Cape Town Spatial Planning & Urban Design (SA); Community Organisation Resource Centre (SA); dhk urban (SA); Doepel Strijkers (NL); Dutch Consulate (NL-SA); H+N+S Landscape Architects (NL); International New Town Institute (NL); Jakupa (SA); Land+Civilsation Compositions (NL); Provincial Department of Human Settlements (SA); Sustainability Institute (SA); Urban Water Management Research Unit (SA); Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading (SA); Witteveen+Bos (NL).\nFollow us on the ACC website; Facebook and Twitter @ through #DensitySyndicate or #WDC234
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/density-syndicate-studio-01/
LOCATION:Guga S’Thebe Arts and Culture Centre\, Washington Street\, Langa (right turn off Bunga Ave at Fisher's Corner Cafe) \, Cape Town\, 8000\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140429T110000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140429T120000
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SUMMARY:Politics\, informality and clientelism
DESCRIPTION:In her paper “Politics\, informality and clientelism – exploring a pro-poor urban politics” Diana Mitlin explores what we have learnt about how to instigate\, negotiate or otherwise secure pro-poor government in towns and cities of the global South. With competition for scarce resources\, the processes of urban development and specifically the acquisition of land and basic services are intensely political. While the nature of urban poverty differs\, there is a consistent set of needs related to residency in informal settlements; tenure is insecure and there is a lack of access to basic services\, infrastructure\, and sometimes other entitlements. Households and communities have to negotiate these collective consumption goods in a context in which political relations are primarily informal with negotiations that take place away from the transparent and accountable systems of ‘modern’ government. Clientelist bargaining prevails. Much of the existing literature is polarised either critiquing clientelism for its consequences\, or arguing that it has been dismissed without any grounded assessment of what might take its place and any considered analysis of what it has managed to deliver.\nAbout the Speaker:\nDiana Mitlin is principle researcher in the Human Settlements Group of the International Institute for Environment and Development. Her areas of research interest and expertise include urban poverty\, poverty reduction\, community development and civil society. Her current work focuses on collaboration with grassroots organization and support agencies to improve urban neighbourhoods (land tenure\, basic services and housing). Before starting with IIED she worked as an economist for the UK Government and has also taught at the Institute for Development Policy and Management at the University of Manchester.\nAdvance Reading: ESID working paper_Mitlin
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/politics-informality-clientelism-exploring-pro-poor-urban-politics/
LOCATION:Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, Upper Campus\, UCT\,\, Cape Town\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140423T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140423T140000
DTSTAMP:20260604T161805
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SUMMARY:Towards Accessible Urban Areas
DESCRIPTION:Towards Accessible Urban Areas for Persons with Disabilities: Over 600 million people\, approximately 10% of the world’s population\, have some type of a disability. In developing countries\, due to the two fold correlation between disability and poverty\, up to 20% of the population has a disability. Due to structural\, environmental and attitudinal barriers they continue to face\, persons with disabilities are often prevented from fully participating in the economic and social life\, leading to their further impoverishment. Amidst a wide array of tools used to enable the full participation in the society of persons with disabilities\, accessibility and universal design are of significant importance when it comes to urban planning. This presentation focuses on transport and infrastructure within the urban setting\, and aims to further the understanding of the mobility and access issues experienced by persons with disabilities in developing countries\, and to identify specific steps that can be taken to start addressing problems.\nAbout the speaker\nMaša Anišić is a doctoral candidate at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Italy. Her doctoral thesis examines the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the impact of its innovative architecture on the stronger social\, economic and cultural rights fulfillment for persons with disabilities.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/towards-accessible-urban-areas-persons-disabilities/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140422T173000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140422T173000
DTSTAMP:20260604T161805
CREATED:20140421T174550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140421T175331Z
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SUMMARY:Climate Change\, Cape Town and King Canute: the risk of sea-level rise to the City of Cape Town
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Future Forshore Project\, Anton Cartwright (ACC – UCT) and Darryl Colenbrander (CoCT) will be discussing the issue of sea level rise in Cape Town.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/climate-change-cape-town-king-canute-risk-sea-level-rise-city-cape-town/
LOCATION:2nd Floor\, City Hall\, Western Cape\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140407T080000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140412T170000
DTSTAMP:20260604T161805
CREATED:20140319T075550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140331T055105Z
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SUMMARY:African Centre for Cities at the World Urban Forum 2014
DESCRIPTION:ACC will have a strong presence at the World Urban Forum\, and will be participating in a number of events.\n \n\n\n\nDate\n \nTime and venue\n \nEvent title\n \nOrganisers\n \nACC participants\n\n\n8 April\n\n14:00 – 16:00(Yellow Pavilion – Room 4)\n\nNetworking event (NE 4): A debate on new formal housing policies: building a just City?\n\nGlobal Urban Research Centre (GURC)\, School of Environment\, Education and Development\, University of Manchester\n\nEdgar Pieterse (speaker)\n\n\n8 April\n\n16:00 –18:15 (UN-HABITAT Pavilion –  City Changer Room A)\n\nThe urban legal guide: growing a dialogue between Latin American and African countries.\n\nAfrican Centre for Cities\, UCT\n\nStephen Berrisford (Convenor and speaker)\n\n\n8 April\n\n16:30 – 18:30(Red Pavilion – Room 19)\n\nNetworking event (NE 42): Harnessing economic potential: street vending\, enterprise growth\, and urban equity.\n\nWomen in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO)\n\nCaroline Skinner (convenor)\n\n\n9 April\n\n10:00 – 11:00 (Palacio de Exposiciones- Salón Medellín)\n\nSlum urbanism: notes towards a framework for transformation.\n\nGrupo Argos\n\nEdgar Pieterse (speaker)\n\n\n9 April\n\n12:00-13:00 (Yellow Pavilion – Room number 8)\n\nSide Event (SE 8) Urban Equity: Looking back/Moving forward\n\nN-Aerus (Network-Association for European Researchers on Urbanization in the South)\n\nEdgar Pieterse (speaker)\n\n\n9 April\n\n14:00 – 16:00(Yellow Pavilion –Room 12)\n\nNetworking event (NE 58): Planning differently: community-based slum upgrading studios.\n\nAssociation of African Planning Schools (AAPS)\n\nNancy Odendaal (convenor)\n\n\n9 April\n\n14:45 –15:45 (Urban Library)\n\nBook launch: A tale of 10 cities: findings from the Informal Economy Monitoring Study.\n\nWomen in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO)\n\nCaroline Skinner (convenor)\n\n\n10 April\n\n16:00 – 18:00(UN-HABITAT Pavilion –  City Changer Room)\n\nLSE Cities World Urban Forum Session:Cities and the new climate economy: infrastructure\, innovation and the spatial fix.\n\nLSE Cities\n\nEdgar Pieterse (chair)\n\n\n\n \n 
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/african-centre-cities-world-urban-forum-2014/
LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Medellín\, Colombia
CATEGORIES:Conferences & Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140402T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140402T140000
DTSTAMP:20260604T161805
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SUMMARY:Policy & Governance Contexts for Scalable Community-Led Slum Upgrading
DESCRIPTION:The presentation first addresses the policy and governance contexts for the scalability of community-led slum upgrading based on the Shack/Slum Dweller International methodology. The methodology is based on that of the Indian Alliance (NSDF\, Mahila Milan\, SPARC)\, which comprises community-based organizations and NGOs\, in partnership with government\, delivering municipal services\, securing tenure and promoting slum upgrading. The presentation continues with the role of the Pune and Mumbai community-led toilet block precedents in South-South knowledge exchange.\nAbout the speaker\nRichard Tomlinson is Chair in Urban Planning in the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. Before going to Australia he served as an urban policy consultant in Southern Africa and as an academic in South Africa and the USA. His clients included the post-apartheid South African government\, and provincial and local governments\, The World Bank\, USAID\, UN Habitat international and local NGOs\, and also the private sector. As an academic he has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand and Columbia University\, as a Visiting Scholar and SPURS Fellow at MIT\, and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution. His most recent publications\, research and teaching concern the effects of Google and social media on urban policy knowledge products; urban policy processes and ‘international best practice’; slum upgrading; the BRICS and the urban legacy of sports mega events; and housing and the Australian city. His most recent book is an edited publication on Australia’s Unintended Cities: The Impact of Housing on Urban Development.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/policy-governance-contexts-scalable-community-led-slum-upgrading/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140327T080000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140329T170000
DTSTAMP:20260604T161805
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SUMMARY:SA Cities Conference
DESCRIPTION:The third SA Cities conference takes place at Wits University in Johannesburg. This conference brings together emerging and established South African urban scholars. It is a joint project of CUBES & ACC. Details to follow.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/sa-cities-conference/
LOCATION:Wits University\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Conferences & Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140325T080000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140325T170000
DTSTAMP:20260604T161805
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SUMMARY:GPIA Presents Edgar Pieterse on Africa's Urban Revolution
DESCRIPTION: \n at \, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/gpia-presents-edgar-pieterse-africas-urban-revolution/
LOCATION:The Auditorium; Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall\, 66 West 12th Street (formerly known as Tishman)\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140324T080000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140326T170000
DTSTAMP:20260604T161805
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SUMMARY:IIHS/ACC Seminar
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED. FURTHER DETAILS TO BE SUPPLIED WHEN AVAILABLE
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/iihsacc-seminar/
LOCATION:UCT\, Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=UCT Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering UCT Upper Campus Cape Town Western Cape South Africa;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town:geo:18.4240553,-33.9248685
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140320T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140320T140000
DTSTAMP:20260604T161805
CREATED:20140207T060940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140317T122938Z
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SUMMARY:Paula Meth — Producing ‘decent’ cities: gender and urban upgrading
DESCRIPTION:Dr Paula Meth is a lecturer in Town and Regional Planning at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests cover the areas of gender and violence\, informal housing\, crime management\, inequality and injustice\, governance\, local politics and everyday power relations\, all focusing on the global South\, particularly South Africa\,. Her current research focusses on the contributions made by citizens both in challenging and managing social problems but is also in the broader impact of national and global trends towards neo-liberalism and their effect on local participation. Her work is informed by ongoing debates within Feminism and Development Studies\, as well as moves within Planning to broaden and re-examine the terms of reference of planners and their relationship with broader society. Also related to this work is an ongoing interest in developing qualitative methodology\, in particular making use of diaries to inform the research process.\nThis seminar is presented jointly by the UCT EGS Department and ACC
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/academic-seminar-paula-meth/
LOCATION:Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, Upper Campus\, UCT\,\, Cape Town\, 8001\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140318T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140318T143000
DTSTAMP:20260604T161805
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SUMMARY:A Brief Symposium on Accessing Land in African Cities
DESCRIPTION:A recently released book called “Trading Places” is about how urban land markets work in African cities. The book explores how local practice\, land governance and markets interact to shape the ways that people at society’s margins access land to build their livelihoods.\nGiven the challenges of poverty and inequality in many African cities\, the authors argue that the problem is not with markets per se\, but in the unequal ways in which market access is structured. Three of the authors\, Rob McGaffin\, Stephen Berrisford and Mark Napier\, will discuss the emergent findings of their investigations into different dimensions of the challenges faced by people accessing land in rapidly urbanising centres. Following these short inputs\, a facilitated discussion will be led by Liza Cirolia from the African Centre for Cities – Human Settlements CityLab.\nNote: this symposium does not replace the official launch which will take place later in the evening at the Book Lounge. Rather\, it seeks to offer a platform to critically engage with the issues and ideas brought forward by this book. There will be a limited number of discounted copies available at the symposium.\n \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\nRob McGaffin is a town planner and land economist. He currently lectures in the Department of Construction Economics and Management at the University of Cape Town [UCT] and is a Mistra Urban Futures Researcher with the African Centre for Cities. He is the course director for the Housing Finance Course for Sub-Saharan Africa run in partnership between UCT\, The Centre for Affordable Housing Finance [Finmark Trust] and the Wharton School of Business [University of Pennsylvania].\nStephen Berrisford is an independent consultant specialising in the legal and policy frameworks governing urban land and development. He is trained as a lawyer and urban planner\, with degrees from the Universities of Cape Town and Cambridge. He works primarily in Southern and Eastern Africa as well as on global initiatives for agencies such as UN-HABITAT\, Cities Alliance and the World Bank. Stephen is an Adjunct Professor at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town and Visiting Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand.\nMark Napier is a Principal Researcher in the Built Environment unit of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) based in Pretoria\, South Africa.  He is an architect by profession\, with a Masters and PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne\, UK. As part of his twenty years’ policy research experience\, Mark spent two years in national government\, setting up a research unit in the Department of Human Settlements\, and seven years managing the Urban Land Markets Programme Southern Africa.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/brief-symposium-accessing-land-african-cities/
LOCATION:Studio 3\, ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140307T150000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140307T170000
DTSTAMP:20260604T161805
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SUMMARY:Analysing regional development and policy: A structural-realist approach
DESCRIPTION:Professor Frank Moulaert will discuss his paper titled Analysing regional development and policy: A structural-realist approach\, which he co-authored with Abid Mehmood. The paper gives an overview of theories and models which can be used to analyse regional development as well as to design policies and strategies for the future of regions and localities. It evaluates the analytical and policy relevance of these models\, and as it moves towards analytical synthesis\, makes some recommendations for a structural realist approach to spatial development analysis.\nAbout the speaker\nProfessor Frank Moulaert (frankmoulaert.net) is Professor of Spatial Planning\, Head of the Planning and Development Unit and Chairman of the Leuven Research Centre on Space and Society at the Faculty of Engineering\, KU Leuven\, Belgium. He was the Academic Coordinator of the Policy Research Centre ‘Spatial Planning and Housing’ of the Flemish Region (2007-2011). His research covers urban and regional development\, social science theories and methods\, but especially social innovation. He has coordinated six Framework projects (SOCIAL POLIS\, KATARSIS\, DEMOLOGOS\, SINGOCOM\, VALICORES\, URSPIC) and has worked on a number of regional\, national and international research platforms in the course of his academic career. Ongoing research includes: governance of socio-ecological systems (role of social innovation); and\, operationalizing sustainable lifestyles through social innovation; transdisciplinary research on spatial quality\, governance systems and food webs.  Before coming to Leuven he was a Professor at USTL (Lille\, France) and Newcastle University (UK).\nDownload the paper here\n 
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/academic-seminar-frank-moulaert-analysing-regional-development-structural-realist-approach/
LOCATION:Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, Upper Campus\, UCT\,\, Cape Town\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140304T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140304T140000
DTSTAMP:20260604T161805
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SUMMARY:City governance in new authoritarian states
DESCRIPTION:The Case for Luanda\nMany states in Africa have been formally democratic since the 1990s and in terms of their institutional landscape\, look like electoral democracies\, with constitutions\, elections\, parliaments\, courts\, local governments\, private media and civic associations. Yet\, in practice these institutions may not operate under the kind of political freedom and legal security that can be found in liberal electoral democracies. In spite of a growing literature on the workings of this type of ‘new authoritarianism’\, there is little work on how the nature of such regimes in Africa translates to city governance. On the other hand\, few studies of African cities incorporate political regime theory in their analyses. As a result\, they are often either overly pessimistic or too optimistic with regard to the role of local governments and civil society in city governance. Based on a discussion of the role of the Angolan government and ruling party in the planning and governance of the capital city of Luanda\, this presentation argues in favour of a more grounded understanding of the African city.\nAbout the Speaker
\nSylvia Croese is a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University. Her PhD thesis\, entitled Post-war state-led development at work in Angola. The Zango housing project in Luanda as a case study\, looked into the ways in which distributive policies such as housing are used to contribute to regime legitimacy and survival in the city of Luanda\, thereby bringing together two theoretical bodies of work: one on political regimes and one centred around urban studies in Africa. Her current research further examines how governments that are formally democratic\, but authoritarian in practice manage their rapidly growing cities and how this in turn affects city dwellers’ perceptions of and engagements with the state.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/city-governance-new-authoritarian-states-case-luanda/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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ORGANIZER;CN="acc-lsx-child":MAILTO:liza.cirolia@uct.ac.za
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140221T150000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140221T170000
DTSTAMP:20260604T161805
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SUMMARY:Epistemological Practices of Southern Urbanism
DESCRIPTION:Professor Edgar Pieterse will offer a reflection upon the epistemological project that lives at the heart of the African Centre for Cities This reflection is centrally concerned with some fundamental questions: How best can meaningful knowledge about the urban be produced? What should we produce knowledge for? And what do these questions mean for the politics of knowledge production in the global South?  Prof Ari Sitas\, (Sociology\, UCT) will act as discussant
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/academic-seminar-edgar-pieterse/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140220T180000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140220T180000
DTSTAMP:20260604T161805
CREATED:20140203T065832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140217T090516Z
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SUMMARY:Africa's Urban Revolution launch event
DESCRIPTION:Jo Beall (Director of Education and Society at the British Council) and Sean Fox ( Lecturer in Urban Geography and Global Development at the University of Bristol will participate in a panel discussion to mark the launch of ‘Africa’s Urban Revolution’\, a new publication from Zed Books\, edited by Susan Parnell and Edgar Pieterse of the African Centre for Cities. The volume “provides a comprehensive insight into the key issues – demographic\, cultural\, political\, technical\, environmental and economic – surrounding African urbanisation”.\nCo-editor Susan Parnell as well as chapter authors Carole Rakodi\, Tom Goodfellow\, David Simon and Haley Leck will join us at the event. Specially discounted copies of the book will be available for purchase.\nDrinks and light refreshments will be served\nRegistration is essential as space is limited
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/africas-urban-revolution-population-growth-conflict-affect-cities/
LOCATION:Africa Research Institute\, 55 Tufton Street\, London \, SW1P 3QL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140210T080000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140211T170000
DTSTAMP:20260604T161805
CREATED:20140203T153831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140204T074512Z
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SUMMARY:Informality Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Urban Informality and Migrant Entrepreneurship\nThe ACC is hosting a workshop on Monday 10th and Tuesday 11th February with its partners in the IDRC-funded Growing Informal Cities Project.\nThe venue is the UCT Graduate School of Business\, V&A Waterfront\, Cape Town.  The workshop will feature presentations and discussion on the subject of “Urban Informality and Migrant Entrepreneurship in Southern African Cities” with a particular focus on Cape Town\, Johannesburg\, Maputo and Harare.\nSpace is limited so please let us know as soon as possible.: RSVP to Saskia Greyling by end of day on Thursday 6 February to attend.\nRegistration and refreshments are free to UCT staff and students. Attendees have to pay for their own meals. \nDownload programme here
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/urban-informality-migrant-entrepreneurship-southern-african-cities/
LOCATION:UCT Graduate School of Business\,\, V&A Waterfront\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140122
DTSTAMP:20260604T161805
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SUMMARY:Healthy Cities for Children Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:The ACC and Children’s Institute hosts the Healthy Cities for Children Colloquium: Urbanisation\, Urban Planning and Children’s Wellbeing on January 20th and 21st. Highlights of the programme include a session on Making Cities Work for Children and a Panel on Children and the Right to the City: implications for planning and the built environment.  \nDownload full programme: Healthy Cities Programme
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/healthy-cities-children-roundtable/
LOCATION:Ikhaya Lodge\, Dunkley Square\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Conferences & Workshops
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