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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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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September 26 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pmBeyond our borders: Independent art spaces as a lens on city futures
Four leading shapers of the contemporary art world from cutting-edge independent spaces on the African continent will next week share their insights and experience in a public panel hosted in central Cape Town. The panellists, who respectively manage or help direct programming for multidisciplinary contemporary art spaces in Addis Ababa, Cairo, Dar es Salaam and […]
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October 17 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pmFinancing infrastructure in cities of the global South
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Edgar Pieterse September 11, 2019INTERVIEW: Edgar Pieterse chats to John Maytham about the Integration Syndicate
Following the launch of The Integration Syndicate: Shifting Cape Town’s Socio-Spatial Debate on Friday, 6 September at the Open Book Festival, Edgar Pieterse (EP) was interviewed by John Maytham (JM), of CapeTalk about the publication and one of the provocations related to minibus taxis. You can read the transcript of the interview below or listen to […]
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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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January 17, 2019REVIEW: Building a Capable State
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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
Laura Nkula-Wenz and Zayd Minty examine how different cultural policy approaches have been locally mobilized and reworked in Bandung and Cape Town in response to situated realities and in partnerships between cultural, academic, business and local government actors, in this article for Cultural Trends. ABSTRACT This article compares the cultural governance pathways of two UNESCO […]
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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
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Gina Ziervogel March 20, 2019
IN THE PRESS: Cape Town drought a lesson for SA
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Gina Ziervogel February 20, 2019Unpacking the Cape Town drought: Lessons learned