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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Anna Selmeczi February 11, 2020Critical Methods for the Study of World Politics
Critical Methods for the Study of World Politics, edited by Shine Choi, Anna Selmeczi and Erzebet Strausz, develops an approach to both method and the socio-political implications of knowledge production that embraces our embeddedness in the world that we study. It seeks to enact the transformative potentials inherent in this relationship in how it engages […]
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Sophie Oldfield November 5, 2019Building Houses Bit-by-Bit: The stories of Hazeldean-Ekupumleni
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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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February 27 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pmNon-Motorised Transport Capabilities and Needs in Sub-Saharan African Cities
Join ACC’s researcher Sean Cooke for an open discussion on non-motorised transport capabilities and needs in Sub-saharan African cities. The two-hour session will start with a presentation by Bianca Ryseck on the capabilities approach and its applications to mobility followed by an open discussion to further understanding NMT needs of vulnerable groups through their capabilities. […]
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February 27 @ 5:30 pmBook launch: Participatory Theatre and the Urban Everyday in South Africa
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June 24 - June 26The coloniality of infrastructure: Eurafrican legacies
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August 30 - September 1Southern Africa City Studies Conference
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November 18 - November 20Association of African Planning Schools Conference 2020
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Jane Battersby January 28, 2020Call for papers: Special Issue on urban food policies for a sustainable and just future
Co-editors Ana Moragues-Faus and Jane Battersby of a special issue of the Journal of Food Policy entitled Urban food policies for a sustainable and just future, are calling for submissions. In a context of increasing urbanization, cities have been signalled as key sites for revolution, where transformation of nature becomes most visible, both in its physical […]
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Edgar Pieterse, Tau Tavengwa November 29, 2019A refreshed editorial approach to Cityscapes magazine launched
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October 17, 2019
Grounding Urban Natures – Histories and Futures of Urban Ecologies
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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 January 28, 2020Unpacking the Cape Town Drought: Lessons Learned
The severe drought experienced by Cape Town between 2015 and 2018 and the imminent threat of “Day Zero” should serve as a warning for other cities as to what climate impacts might look like in future. This paper, Gina Ziervogel, unpacks the governance of the drought in Cape Town, in order to understand what conditions […]
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January 28, 2020Green Infrastructure in South African Cities
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Anna Taylor January 28, 2020Climate information for building resilient South African cities
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Sylvia Croese January 28, 2020Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals Through the Lens of Urban Resilience: Lessons and Learnings from 100 Resilient Cities and Cape Town
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Andrew Tucker January 17, 2020What can homonationalism tell us about sexuality in South Africa?: Exploring the relationships between biopolitics, necropolitics, sexual exceptionalism and homonormativity
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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?