The Informal Economy: Current Realities - African Centre for Cities

A presentation by Caroline Skinner at the 2013 Informal Economy Summit. Gives an outline of the latest statistics on the South African informal economy

Call for papers: African Literary Cities: Hubs, Maps and Urban Literary Ecologies

Call for Papers: ACC panels at ECAS 2025

Food and Infrastructure Justice – Naleli’s story

Honing in on local capacities and youthfulness in shifting towards a regenerative built environment in Cape Town

Featured: CNN Inside Africa – Next Gen Cities

Reflections on World Food Day in African cities

Unemployment, hustling, and waithood: exploring Zimbabwean urban male youth’s utilisation of ICT in soccer betting

AUF a milestone in journey towards transforming Africa’s urban landscapes

African cities require new modes of urban planning

Research Assistant training programme (CLAIMS project)

Financing Africa’s urban future takes centre stage at #AUF

Writing about Platformization from Africa: workshop #2

Reading the streets and Cities of trauma at OBF

Call for Applications – 2 x Masters scholarships (MPhil in Urban Studies – Southern Urbanism)

Prof Nancy Odendaal takes up critical Urban Studies at ACC

ACC to chair session at inaugural Africa Urban Forum

Demographic change and urban health: Towards a novel agenda for delivering sustainable and healthy cities for all

State of the City Food System Report: Cape Town

Report: Reflections on the Tanzanian Urbanisation Laboratory, 2017–2020

Facilitator’s Guide: housing the poor in African cities (Series 01-08)

DAAD Call for Scholarship Applications 2026: MPhil in Urban Studies – Southern Urbanism

MPhil 2025 attracts scholars from eight countries

The new urban imaginaries: Africa’s search for sustainable urban futures

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