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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August 30 - September 1Southern Africa City Studies Conference
Since 2009 the Southern Africa City Studies Conference (SACSC) series has provided an interdisciplinary forum for researchers examining urban issues in Southern Africa. We are pleased to announce that the fifth conference in this series will take place from 30 August to 1 September 2020 at the University of the Witwatersrand. Recent interest in comparative […]
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November 18 - November 20Association of African Planning Schools Conference 2020
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January 13, 2021 - January 17, 2021The coloniality of infrastructure: Eurafrican legacies
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Anton Cartwright March 6, 2020Urbanisation Lab delivers co-produced policy guidance for Ghanaian government
To deliver on the Coalition for Urban Transitions‘ project — a major global initiative to support national governments to accelerate economic development and tackle dangerous climate change by transforming towns and cities — the African Centre for Cities applied versions of the ‘citylab’ model that have been used elsewhere (see Anderson et al. 2013) in […]
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Jane Battersby January 28, 2020Call for papers: Special Issue on urban food policies for a sustainable and just future
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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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Anton Cartwright August 21, 2019Launch of Tanzania’s Urbanisation Roadmap
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Jane Battersby March 10, 2020No Looking Back: [Food]ways Forward for Healthy African Cities in Light of Climate Change
The recent IPCC Climate Change and Land Report [1] lays out evidence of the need for urgent shifts in the global systems in light of climate change. This commentary reflects on Chapter 5, the Food Security chapter, from our perspective as researchers focused on urban food systems and non-communicable disease in Africa. (more…)
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Gina Ziervogel January 28, 2020Unpacking the Cape Town Drought: Lessons Learned
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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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January 27, 2020The Macro-Economic Impact of Two Different Industrial Development Pathways in Ghana