Projects

Active Projects

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  The Nourished Child

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  GreenGov

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  African Cities Thought Leadership Programme

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  SA-EU dialogue: Cultural Mapping, Planning and Impact Assessment for Sustainable and Just Urban Development

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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

Archived Projects

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  Exploratory Process into the Relevance of an Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA) for Cape Town

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  Turning Livelihoods to Rubbish (TLR)

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  HICCUP: Heterogenous Infrastructure of Cities of Uganda Project: Thinking With the South

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  Urban Flooding CityLab

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  African-Asian Urbanisms

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  Cities Alliance Think Tank on Urbanisation in Africa

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  Governing Food Systems to Alleviate Poverty in Secondary Cities

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  Situated Urban Political Ecologies (SUPE)

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  Public Art and the Power of Place

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  City Futures

• Anton Cartwright
  February 24, 2019

  Urban Stories: Documenting Everyday Life in Tanzania

  URBAN STORIES (English) – Documenting everyday life in Tanzania – Water and Sanitation from Eric Schaechter on Vimeo. To ignore informal service provision in Tanzanian cities is to miss an opportunity. Informal water and sanitation providers, featured in this film by an ARDHI University research team, have devised innovative ways to overcome service delivery backlogs. […]
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  November 3, 2016

  Visualising the Future of Our Neighbourhoods

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  October 27, 2016

  The City is the People

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  October 25, 2016

  Future Cities Laboratory

• Tau Tavengwa, Edgar Pieterse
  October 12, 2016

  In Context

• Henrik Ernstson
  March 16, 2016

  Teaser: 1 Table 2 Elephants

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  October 7, 2013

  Conflict 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, 2013

  Space, Affect, Security: Reflections on ‘Outcharming’ Crime in the City

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  September 30, 2013

  Entering 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, 2013

  Comments on a Global World and Fragmented Localities

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  September 30, 2013

  Bad Buildings

• Ian Palmer, Stephen Berrisford
  August 7, 2015

  African 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.     […]

• James Duminy, Susan Parnell
  May 28, 2020

  New book on urban reform and innovation

  African Centre for Cities has just published a new book Supporting City Futures: The Cities Support Programme and the Urban Challenge in South Africa by James Duminy and Susan Parnell.  In 2018 the Cities Support Programme (CSP), an initiative of the South African National Treasury, approached ACC to assist with the production of a book […]
• Warren Smit, Rike Sitas, Sylvia Croese
  April 2, 2020

  Comparative Urban Research from Theory to Practice – Co-Production for Sustainability

• Sophie Oldfield
  November 5, 2019

  Building Houses Bit-by-Bit: The stories of Hazeldean-Ekupumleni

• Caroline Skinner
  May 4, 2016

  Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia and Informality in SA

• Gina Ziervogel, Anton Cartwright, Anna Taylor, Warren Smit
  June 19, 2015

  Rising Waters: Working together on Cape Town’s flooding

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  August 26, 2013

  Quick Guide 04: Eviction: Alternatives to the distruction of poor communities

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  November 30 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

  International Anti-Corruption Conference: Cities, Corruption and COVID-19

  Hivos will host a workshop at the upcoming International Anti-Corruption Conference looking into innovative approaches to tackling corruption at city level. What are the corruption risks at city level? And where is the support for approaches to tackle them? Sign up to join the conversation on Monday 30 November 2020 at 11.00 – 12.30 UTC As the world turns […]
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  January 13, 2021 - January 17, 2021

  The coloniality of infrastructure: Eurafrican legacies

• Gareth Haysom, Jane Battersby
  November 26, 2020

  New project investigates the double burden of malnutrition in South Africa

  Building on ACC’s continued work on urban food systems through projects such as The Hungry Cities Partnership, Consuming Urban Poverty, and Nourishing Spaces, The Nourished Child project explores the double burden of malnutrition in urban settings in the Western Cape, South Africa. The new project, funded by the UKRI’s Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Collective […]
• Vaughn Sadie
  October 28, 2020

  Imagining Impacts – The Goethe-Institut in Africa

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  October 22, 2020

  A view from the inside

• Jane Battersby
  October 16, 2020

  Food Heroes: Fighting against hunger and malnutrition

• Jane Battersby
  July 15, 2020

  New policy brief on the impact of Covid-19 on food security in Kisumu, Kenya

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  July 10, 2020

  Second Cities of Integrity Working Paper reflects on the Zambian Qualitative Action Experiment

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  November 23, 2020

  Food Systems and Diet-Related NCDS in Cape Town, South Africa

  Food Systems and Diet-Related NCDS in Cape Town, South Africa, by researcher Jo Hunter-Adams is the first in a series of Nourishing Spaces working papers edited by Jane Battersby. ABSTRACT The aim of this working paper is to offer insight into the lived experience of changing food systems and diet-related non-communicable disease (NCDs) in a […]
• Rike Sitas, Vaughn Sadie
  September 22, 2020

  New report synthesises learnings from SA-EU Dialogue on cultural planning

• Liza Rose Cirolia, Nobukhosi Ngwenya
  September 22, 2020

  Conflicts Between and Within: The ‘Conflicting Rationalities’ of Informal Occupation in South Africa

• Liza Rose Cirolia
  September 22, 2020

  Contested fiscal geographies: Urban authority, everyday practice, and emerging state-finance relations

• Liza Rose Cirolia
  September 22, 2020

  Fractured fiscal authority and fragmented infrastructures: Financing sustainable urban development in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Amy Weimann, Warren Smit
  August 18, 2020

  Health through human settlements: Investigating policymakers’ perceptions of human settlement action for population health improvement in urban South Africa