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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140320T130000
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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
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140221T150000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140221T170000
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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
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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:20260604T174525
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20131215T080000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140105T170000
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SUMMARY:ACC annual summer shutdown
DESCRIPTION:tbc
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/acc-annual-summer-shutdown/
LOCATION:Western Cape
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20131129T010000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20131129T170000
DTSTAMP:20260604T174525
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SUMMARY:Methods and modalities of activism
DESCRIPTION:The Social Justice Coalition (SJC) is a Khayelitsha based social movement and advocacy group campaigning for improved conditions in informal settlements and the promotion of more inclusive and equitable South African cities.   Over the past four years the organisation has moved from responding to xenophobic violence to local government delivery. Along the way\, it has learnt important lessons about how best to use people’s power across historic divides to promote meaningful and sustainable urban change.\nGavin Silber\, a founding member and current Deputy General-Secretary of the SJC will reflect on the SJC’s trajectory of activism\, highlighting the methods\, modes\, and roles of activism in addressing urban development challenges in Cape Town. In particular\, he will focus on the lessons which can be learned from the SJC’s notable campaign for improved sanitation.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/methods-and-modalities-of-activism-reflecting-on-the-sjc-experience/
LOCATION:UCT Engineering\, Rm 2.27\, Davies Room\, Engeo Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT \, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20131128T080000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20131128T170000
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SUMMARY:Cityscapes #4: Thinking relationally about north and south
DESCRIPTION:Photographer Jodi Bieber’s portrait of a member of the Dube Young Blood Shotokan Karate Club in Soweto introduces the focus of the fourth issue of Cityscapes: Soweto. Is it a viable model of what happens after informality? The question does not propose a simple answer. Soweto’s redevelopment is uneven. There are malls\, loft developments\, a theatre. More significantly\, there are roads and basic services. Change is afoot\, but not for all. Cityscapes\, a magazine project of the African Centre for Cities edited by Sean O’Toole and Tau Tavengwa\, offers an in-depth look at this emergent edge city on the southern periphery of Johannesburg. Also in the new fourth issue: a grouped series of reports\, essays and interviews tracing a zigzag path connecting Tel Aviv to Naples to Berlin to Guangzhou\, all cities where African migrants are a feature of the urban matrix. There is a speculative logic at work in this grouping. In her conversation with Gautam Bhan in this issue\, urban theorist Ananya Roy conjectures\, “what does it mean for us to think relationally about the north and south\, recognising that these are connected geographies in all sorts of ways?”
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/cityscapes-4-thinking-relationally-north-south/
LOCATION:Book Lounge\, 71 Roeland Street\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20131014T150000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20131028T170000
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SUMMARY:Prof. Ananya Roy — Gray Areas
DESCRIPTION:In the lexicon of American urban policy\, community development is a prominent force. This talk\, based on an essay co-authored with Stuart Schrader and Emma Shaw Crane\, provides a global history of community development.  It shows how\, in the 1960s\, an impending sense of urban crisis\, what was perceived to be an “apartheid” of race and income\, conjoined with American geopolitical concerns about wars of insurgency in the global South to produce a field of ideas and practices focused on pacification\, participation\, and poverty. Such programs reveal how the management of poverty is articulated with pacification and punitive regulation\, not just at a moment of neoliberalism but also in liberal government and its struggles with racial difference.  Community development though was more than a bureaucracy of poverty. Multiple mobilizations and movements sought to challenge racial subjugation.  From Alinsky-style direct action to the anti-colonial imaginary of the Black Panther Party\, poor people’s movements also reshaped urban policy and community development in the turbulent American 1960s. (full paper is available on request\, please email Pippin.Anderson@uct.ac.za)\nAbout the Speaker: Ananya Roy is Professor of City and Regional Planning and Distinguished Chair of Global Poverty and Practice at the University of California\, Berkeley.  Her research\, teaching\, and public scholarship is concerned with global urbanism\, territories of poverty\, the politics of postcolonial development. Roy’s most recent books include “Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development” and “Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global.”\n____________________________________________________________________\nAnanya Roy’s visit to South Africa is enabled by the School of Architecture and Planning at Wits University\, which invited her to deliver the bi-annual Rusty Bernstein Memorial Lecture on 16 May 2013
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/prof-ananya-roy-gray-areas-the-war-on-poverty-at-home-and-abroad/
LOCATION:Western Cape
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130815
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130817
DTSTAMP:20260604T174525
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SUMMARY:MPhil in Urban Infrastructure
DESCRIPTION:Convener: Dr. M Brown-Luthango.\n20 HEQF credits at level 9.\nCourse outline: Sustainable livelihood\, participation\, governance\, partnerships\, development action plans\, survey methods.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/mphil-in-urban-infrastructure-community-development-end5043z/
LOCATION:UCT\, Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20130807T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20130807T170000
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SUMMARY:Producing Luanda
DESCRIPTION:When: Aug 7\, 2013 (1pm)\nWhere: Studio 5\, Engeo Building\, UCT\, Cape Town\nAntonio Tomas is a research fellow at Makerere Institute of Social Research\, in Kampala. He received his doctoral degree in Anthropology from Columbia University\, in 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). For ten years he has been a regular contributor to Angolan newspapers\, and a selection of his journalistic writings has been published under the title Poligrafia: Das Páginas de Jornais Angolanos (Poligrafia: from the Pages of Angolan Newspapers\, Luanda\, Casa das Ideias\, 2010). In 2012\, he worked as visiting professor at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales\, in Paris. Currently\, he is writing a book tentatively called In the skin of the city: Luanda\, or the dialectics of spatial transformation.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/producing-luanda/
LOCATION:UCT\, Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130801
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130802
DTSTAMP:20260604T174525
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SUMMARY:Informal Settlement Upgrading
DESCRIPTION:When: Aug 21\, 2013 (1pm)\nWhere: Rm 2.27\, Davies Room\, Engeo Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\n    Speakers: Community leaders\, Informal Settlement Network members\, Community Organisation Resource Centre\, and Shack/Slum Dwellers International\n    City planning and growth strategies in South Africa have quite simply been unable to account effectively for the prevalence of informal shelter and employment strategies. Grassroots strategies for generating alternative planning approaches are subject to significant amounts of attention in theory\, yet the precise approaches and mechanics of these strategies in practice are still not well understood. The role of organizing communities that experience informality in South African cities is perhaps one of the most under-explored mechanisms for achieving more inclusive city growth trajectories.The South African Alliance is made up of two social movements (Federation of the Urban Poor\, Informal Settlement Network) and NGO professional supporters (Community Organisation Resource Centre\, iKhayalami\, uTshani Fund). These actors have been working to include the poor in urban development in South Africa since the end of Apartheid. This includes the largest civil society housing initiative in the democratic era: over 15\,000 houses built through government subsidies channeled directly to low-income communities linked to the Federation of the Urban Poor and initiating a strong practice based model on informal settlement upgrading.This brown bag seminar will focus on the Alliance’s work on in situ informal settlement upgrading\, through a presentation of recent people-led projects. These have been designed to shift the policy space around provision of land\, services\, and housing for the poor in the city of Cape Town. Presenters will include community leaders\, Informal Settlement Network members\, Community Organisation Resource Centre\, and Shack/Slum Dwellers International.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/informal-settlement-upgrading/
LOCATION:UCT\, Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20130614T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20130614T170000
DTSTAMP:20260604T174525
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SUMMARY:Food Security and Place-Based Governance
DESCRIPTION:When: Jun 27\, 2013 (1pm)\nWhere: Rm 2.27\, Davies Room\, Engeo Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\nTraditional responses to food insecurity are unable to mitigate the growing challenge of limited and inappropriate food access. Although generally overlooked in traditional approaches to food security\, this challenge is felt most severely in cities\, particularly African cities. The second urban transition calls for different approaches to a number of interlinked urban challenges. Food insecurity is one such challenge. Alternative approaches to the urban food challenge and particularly to urban food governance are emerging. However\, while some cities in the South are acting on this challenge\, traditional aspatial and scale-neutral views of food security dominate. Innovative programmatic responses to food insecurity are emerging but are generally located in Northern cities. While the programmes may speak to Northern urban issues\, the new urban food governance structures that enable such programmes offer opportunities for Southern cities. These governance structures have the potential to enable scale-centred interventions that respond to and mitigate the food insecurity challenge in place- appropriate ways. Using the concept of Alternative Food Geographies this talk will provide an analysis of food security responses focussing specifically on how these are enabling new forms of urban food governance and how food\, food security and the city coalesce\, enabling appropriate actions.\nGareth Haysom is a PhD candidate within the African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN)\, a programme within the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town. Gareth’s work has focussed on the interface between food and sustainability\, considering challenges within the broader food system. More recently work has focussed specifically on how the food/sustainability nexus intersects with urban governance in Southern Africa.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/food-security-and-place-based-governance/
LOCATION:UCT\, Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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