Publishing
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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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Sophie Oldfield November 5, 2019Building Houses Bit-by-Bit: The stories of Hazeldean-Ekupumleni
The City Research Studio (CRS) is a year-long course presented as part of the newly launched MPhil in Southern Urbanism as well as part of the Masters in Critical Urbanisms (University of Basel) semester at UCT. The CRS is a three-part experimental space for students, and faculty, to engage in the city, to learn to walk, see, smell, touch, embrace, explore […]
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October 17, 2019Grounding Urban Natures – Histories and Futures of Urban Ecologies
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Edgar Pieterse September 10, 2019LAUNCH: The Integration Syndicate: Shifting Cape Town’s Socio-Spatial Debate
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Jane Battersby, Vanessa Watson November 1, 2018LAUNCH: Tomatoes & Taxi Ranks – Running our Cities to Fill the Food Gap
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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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November 19 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pmRelaunch: Cityscapes Magazine
African Centre for Cities invites you to the relaunch of Cityscapes Magazine on 19 November 2019, 17:30 at The Book Lounge. The new issue is themed ‘Passages’ is a collection of stories that explore the nature(s) of movement, the impact it has on how we live and who we are, as well as the lives […]
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December 10 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pmContested Knowledges for Just Urban Futures
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October 17, 2019Grounding Urban Natures – Histories and Futures of Urban Ecologies
ACC Honorary Associate Professor Henrik Ernstson has co-edited a new book entitled Grounding Urban Natures – Histories and Futures of Urban Ecologies with Sverker Sörlin. (more…)
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Edgar Pieterse September 11, 2019INTERVIEW: Edgar Pieterse chats to John Maytham about the Integration Syndicate
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August 20, 2019IN THE PRESS: Festivals can transform cities by making space for overlooked people and cultures
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July 19, 2019New ACC paper argues for strengthening integrity within the planning profession to combat corruption in urban development
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Gina Ziervogel March 20, 2019IN THE PRESS: Cape Town drought a lesson for SA
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Gina Ziervogel March 14, 2019Cape Town drought delivers powerful lessons to cities on climate adaptation
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Jane Battersby, Vanessa Watson October 8, 2019The planned ‘city-region’ in the New Urban Agenda: an appropriate framing for urban food security?
This article presents one of a number of conclusions from a four-year ESRC/DfID-funded project entitled Consuming Urban Poverty, based at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town. (more…)
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Amy Weimann October 7, 2019A Systematised Review of the Health Impact of Urban Informal Settlements and Implications for Upgrading Interventions in South Africa, a Rapidly Urbanising Middle-Income Country
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August 1, 2019NEW ARTICLE: Effecting cultural change from below? A comparison of Cape Town and Bandung’s pathways to urban cultural governance
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July 19, 2019
New ACC paper argues for strengthening integrity within the planning profession to combat corruption in urban development
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Sylvia Croese May 29, 2019NEW PAPER: Adapting the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda to the city level: Initial reflections from a comparative research project
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Edgar Pieterse April 2, 2019NEW PAPER: The Potential for Sustainable Urbanisation in Africa