Projects
Active Projects
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Whose Heritage Matters
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PEAK Urban
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Whose Heritage Matters?
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Cities of Integrity: urban planning and corruption in Africa
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Platform
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Co-producing urban knowledge in Angola and Mozambique through community-led data collection: towards meeting SDG 11
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Nourishing Spaces
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Coalition for Urban Transitions
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Integration Syndicate
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Turning Livelihoods to Rubbish (TLR)
Archived Projects
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Urban Flooding CityLab
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African-Asian Urbanisms
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Governing Food Systems to Alleviate Poverty in Secondary Cities
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City Futures
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Migration & Informal Entrepreneurship in Southern Africa
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Climate Change Adaptation at the Local Scale
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S.African City Futures
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New Imaginaries
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Public Culture Research Group
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The Density Syndicate
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November 3, 2016Visualising the Future of Our Neighbourhoods
This film documents the “South African City Futures: Visualising the Futures of our Neighbourhoods” project undertaken in 2014. Part research and part radical co-creation, the project combined the use of futures thinking, multi-stakeholder dialogue, and multiple forms of visualisation to reflect upon the future of urban neighbourhoods to 2030
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October 27, 2016The City is the People
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October 25, 2016Future Cities Laboratory
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Tau Tavengwa, Edgar Pieterse October 12, 2016In Context
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Henrik Ernstson March 16, 2016Teaser: 1 Table 2 Elephants
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Anton Cartwright January 22, 2016What is a smart African city like?
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October 7, 2013Conflict and State Fragility
Cities have long been connected with processes of bureaucratisation and state-building, as indeed they have long been linked to conflict and war. In bringing these two associations together we engaged with the historical sociology of Charles Tilly and research in the CAFS programme confirmed that the intersection of cities, states and violent conflict remains significant, […]
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September 30, 2013Space, Affect, Security: Reflections on ‘Outcharming’ Crime in the City
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September 30, 2013Entering the City
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September 30, 2013[Re]Writing Type : Architecture in an age of [radical] transformation
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September 30, 2013Comments on a Global World and Fragmented Localities
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September 30, 2013Bad Buildings
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Ian Palmer, Stephen Berrisford August 7, 2015African Urban Infrastructure Symposium
Urban Infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa – Harnessing Land Values, Housing and Transport Symposium on research findings – Cape Town, 20 & 21 July 2015 Powerpoint slide presentations from the ACC’s end-of-project symposium on urban infrastructure finance. The research was supported by the UK Department for International Development (DfID), July 2014 – July 2015. […]
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Caroline Skinner May 4, 2016Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia and Informality in SA
Mean Streets, edited by ACC partners Jonathan Crush, Abel Chikanda and Caroline Skinner, demonstrates powerfully that some of the most resourceful entrepreneurs in the South African informal economy are migrants and refugees. Yet far from being lauded, they take their life into their hands when they trade on South Africa’s “mean streets.” Thirteen chapters draw […]
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August 26, 2013Quick Guide 04: Eviction: Alternatives to the distruction of poor communities
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August 29 @ 1:00 am - 2:00 pmStitching fragments and fractals
On 29 August 2019, the UCT School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics is hosting Prof Edgar Pieterse, director of the African Centre for Cities. Pieterse recently returned from a year-long sabbatical and will be reflecting on this in his presentation Stitching fragments and fractals: A meandering reflection on twelve months of being elsewhere, writing fragments […]
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September 10 @ 8:00 am - September 13 @ 5:00 pmInternational Transdisciplinarity Conference 2019
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October 17 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pmFinancing infrastructure in cities of the global South
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August 12, 2019BLOG: Between Dreams and Living Life: What the Everyday unveils…
The first semester of the MPhil in Southern Urbanism at the African Centre for Cities , University of Cape Town swept away cobwebs of old stale ways of thinking about life in the city and pushed every necessary “refresh” button. My internal adventures, both of the mental and spirit kind carefully choreographed and facilitated by […]
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Ntombini Marrengane May 9, 2019Challenging the formal/informal dichotomy
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Anton Cartwright May 7, 2019IN THE PRESS: How to achieve low carbon service delivery
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Sylvia Croese April 30, 2019Unpacking SDG implementation in eThekwini
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Sylvia Croese April 2, 2019LIRA Annual Research Forum
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Sylvia Croese February 21, 2019Grounding stats and the SDGs in co-produced local data
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Edgar Pieterse, Anton Cartwright, Liza Rose Cirolia June 4, 2019Africa 2063: How Cities Will Shape the Future of a Continent
African Centre for Cities and the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) collaborated to produce Africa 2063: How Cities Will Shape the Future of a Continent, edited by Edgar Pieterse and Tobia Zevi. (more…)
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Alicia Fortuin May 13, 2019“Ride-sharing”, virtual capital and impacts on labor in Cape Town, South Africa
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Edgar Pieterse, Gareth Haysom, Susan Parnell May 8, 2018African dreams: locating urban infrastructure in the 2030 sustainable developmental agenda
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Sylvia Croese May 8, 2018Global urban policymaking in Africa: A view from Angola through the redevelopment of the Bay of Luanda
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Gareth Haysom May 8, 2018“Measurement drives diagnosis and response”: Gaps in transferring food security assessment to the urban scale
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Jane Battersby, Vanessa Watson May 7, 2018Addressing food security in African cities