Projects
Active Projects
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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
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Coalition for Urban Transitions
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
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Anton Cartwright February 24, 2019Urban 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, 2016Visualising the Future of Our Neighbourhoods
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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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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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James Duminy, Susan Parnell May 28, 2020New 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 […]
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Warren Smit, Rike Sitas, Sylvia Croese April 2, 2020Comparative Urban Research from Theory to Practice – Co-Production for Sustainability
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Sophie Oldfield November 5, 2019Building Houses Bit-by-Bit: The stories of Hazeldean-Ekupumleni
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Caroline Skinner May 4, 2016Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia and Informality in SA
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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, 2013Quick Guide 04: Eviction: Alternatives to the distruction of poor communities
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July 20 @ 8:00 am - August 14 @ 5:00 pmFood Dialogues
Food Dialogues is a free online programme on the local food system bringing together speakers involved in shaping the food system, hosted by the SA Urban Food & Farming Trust in partnership with African Centre for Cities, Oribi Village, the City of Cape Town, ICLEI and Derrick. The Covid-19 pandemic has rendered in stark relief […]
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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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January 13, 2021 - January 17, 2021The coloniality of infrastructure: Eurafrican legacies
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Jane Battersby July 15, 2020New policy brief on the impact of Covid-19 on food security in Kisumu, Kenya
Over-reliance on food imports from other regions of Kenya and neighbouring countries leaves Kisumu city vulnerable to food insecurity should there be any disruptions in the supply chain such as been highlighted by the current pandemic. (more…)
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July 10, 2020Second Cities of Integrity Working Paper reflects on the Zambian Qualitative Action Experiment
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Sophie Oldfield May 27, 2020Distinguished award for Prof Sophie Oldfield
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Jane Battersby May 12, 2020South Africa’s lockdown regulations and the reinforcement of anti‑informality bias
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Sylvia Croese May 4, 2020Advancing the 2030 Agenda in African cities through knowledge co-production: Urban experiments led by early-career African scientists
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Anton Cartwright April 16, 2020Urban Service Delivery Innovation
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Rike Sitas July 16, 2020Cultural policy and just cities in Africa
ABSTRACT In the vastly unequal contexts typical in African cities and amidst the poly crisis of rapid urban development, it is vital to understand how cultural heritage intersects with urban planning, design and development. Although integrating cultural heritage into the urban agenda is crucial to developing sustainable cities, the ways in which culture is being […]
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Jane Battersby July 15, 2020New 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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Liza Rose Cirolia, Anton Cartwright June 22, 2020New report on why and how to invest in Africa’s city infrastructure
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Andrew Tucker, Neil R. Hassan May 11, 2020Situating sexuality: An interconnecting research agenda in the urban global south
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Sylvia Croese May 4, 2020
Advancing the 2030 Agenda in African cities through knowledge co-production: Urban experiments led by early-career African scientists