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Susan Parnell October 12, 2014Susan Parnell discusses ‘Africa’s Urban Revolution’
An interview with Susan Parnell, Executive Member of the African Centre for Cities and Co-Editor of ‘Africa’s Urban Revolution’, published by Zed Books. Sue discusses informal settlements, the effects of global environmental change & the true economic potential of Africa’s cities.
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Tau Tavengwa, Edgar Pieterse September 30, 2013Urbanisation and the Continent: The Big Picture
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Andrew Boraine, Edgar Pieterse, Tau Tavengwa September 30, 2013Why Is Change Elusive In Cape Town – Part 2
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Andrew Boraine, Edgar Pieterse, Tau Tavengwa September 30, 2013Why Is Change Elusive in Cape Town – Part 1
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August 21, 2013Living in the Endless City
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Edgar Pieterse, Tau Tavengwa, Sean O' Toole August 21, 2013All About Cityscapes
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Jane Battersby, Vanessa Watson November 1, 2018LAUNCH: Tomatoes & Taxi Ranks – Running our Cities to Fill the Food Gap
HOW DO THE CITIES WE LIVE IN SHAPE WHAT WE EAT? This question is central to a new book, Tomatoes & Taxi Ranks: Running our Cities to Fill the Food Gap, by Leonie Joubert with Jane Battersby and Vanessa Watson published by the African Centre for Cities. (more…)
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September 5, 2018Interpreting Kigali, Rwanda
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August 27, 2018Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities
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Susan Parnell, Edgar Pieterse August 14, 2018Democratising Local Government: The South African Experiment
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July 3, 2018The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South
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June 22, 2018Companion to Planning in the Global South
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May 28 @ 2:00 am - 3:00 pmFrom platform to plotform: Artistic thinking in spaces of flux
From platform to plotform: Artistic thinking in spaces of flux is a public talk in which ACC research associate Kim Gurney shares work in progress on her project called Platform/ Plotform to help forward future work and interdisciplinary outputs. The project explores working principles identified in participant independent art spaces in five African cities (Nairobi, Accra, […]
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June 19 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pmSDG Seminar Series: Financing the SDGs in African cities?
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September 10 @ 8:00 am - September 13 @ 5:00 pmInternational Transdisciplinarity Conference 2019
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Gina Ziervogel March 20, 2019IN THE PRESS: Cape Town drought a lesson for SA
During National Water Week this week, the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) African Centre for Cities (ACC) released a new paper which warns that the Cape Town drought has powerful climate-change adaptation lessons for other South African municipalities. (more…)
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Gina Ziervogel March 14, 2019Cape Town drought delivers powerful lessons to cities on climate adaptation
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January 17, 2019REVIEW: Building a Capable State
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Jane Battersby, Vanessa Watson November 1, 2018
LAUNCH: Tomatoes & Taxi Ranks – Running our Cities to Fill the Food Gap
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Rike Sitas, Shari Daya August 2, 2018Call for abstracts: Representing urban life in Africa and its diasporas
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June 29, 2018Ruo Emoh: Our Home; Our Story
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Edgar Pieterse April 2, 2019NEW PAPER: The Potential for Sustainable Urbanisation in Africa
“…from a political, economic, military, and cultural point of view, […] Africa has to become its own center. It has to become its own force. Not as a way of separating itself from the rest of the world, but as a precondition for it to exercise its weight among other forces in the world.” It […]
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Gina Ziervogel March 20, 2019IN THE PRESS: Cape Town drought a lesson for SA
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Gina Ziervogel February 20, 2019Unpacking the Cape Town drought: Lessons learned
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Rike Sitas February 13, 2019Cultural heritage entanglements: festivals as integrative sites for sustainable urban development
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Liza Rose Cirolia February 12, 2019Property Tax in African Secondary Cities: Insights from the Cases of Kisumu (Kenya) and M’Bour (Senegal)
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Liza Rose Cirolia February 12, 2019Urban infrastructure and development