Projects
Active Projects
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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)
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HICCUP: Heterogenous Infrastructure of Cities of Uganda Project: Thinking With the South
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Cityscapes Magazine
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Africa Peer Learning, Knowledge and Dissemination Programme
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Contributing to Broader Urban Debates in South Africa
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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February 25 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pmBad Health in a Good Retreat: Life and Death in the ‘Worst’ Neighborhood of São Paulo, Brazil
Prof Jeffrey Lesser will be presenting a seminar entitled Bad Health in a Good Retreat: Life and Death in the ‘Worst’ Neighborhood of São Paulo, Brazil, on Monday, 25 February 2019, 12:30 to 14:00, in the Studio 1, Environmental and Geographical Science Building, Upper Campus, UCT. ABSTRACT Bom Retiro was (and is) a small neighborhood […]
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Warren Smit February 4, 2019IN THE PRESS: Bloated bodies and barren lands
What does obesity have to do with climate change? Quite a lot, according to an influential commission, which says the big food companies that make the junk food fuelling our expanding bodies are also destroying our environment — and need to be stopped. Humans have been getting steadily fatter over the past 30 years and […]
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Edgar Pieterse, Susan Parnell January 10, 2019New report: Science and the Future of Cities
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Caroline Skinner, Gareth Haysom October 23, 2018In the press: Informal trade may hold the key to food security
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Anton Cartwright September 27, 2018Ghana Urbanisation Think Tank
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May 8, 2018Follow Nourishing Spaces on YouTube
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Sophie Oldfield May 2, 2018Sophie Oldfield named as Distinguished Africanist Scholar
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Edgar Pieterse, Gareth Haysom, Susan Parnell May 8, 2018African dreams: locating urban infrastructure in the 2030 sustainable developmental agenda
ABSTRACT This paper examines African urban infrastructure and service delivery as an entry point for connecting African aspirations with the harsh developmental imperatives of urban management, creating a dialogue between scholarly knowledge and sustainable development policy aspirations. (more…)
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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
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Warren Smit May 24, 2016Urban governance and urban food systems in Africa: Examining the linkages
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Warren Smit May 24, 2016Making unhealthy places: The built environment and non-communicable diseases in Khayelitsha, Cape Town