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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August 2 @ 1:00 am - November 15 @ 4:30 pmUrban Humanities Seminar Series 2018
Academic Seminars (15:00 – 16:30) 7 August High Stakes, High Hopes: Creating Collaborative Urban Theory – Prof Sophie Oldfield 16 August Inclusive Cultural Governance: Integrating artistic and cultural practices into national urban frameworks – Avril Joffe with respondent Zayd Minty 30 August in search of thick mapping: listening to Cape Town’s cities – Dr Sabina Favaro 18 September Vital […]
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October 18 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pmUrban Humanities: Storytelling as method: migration, gender and inclusion in Durban
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Anton Cartwright September 27, 2018Ghana Urbanisation Think Tank
ACC’s project for the Coalition for Urban Transitions in Ghana took a significant step forward on 25 September 2018 with the hosting of the first Ghana Urbanisation Think Tank. The Think Tank was co-chaired by Sylvanus Adzornu, Director in the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development and Prof George Owusu of Ghana University, who […]
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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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May 2, 2018OPPORTUNITY: PEAK Urban Postdoctoral Research Fellowship – Infrastructure/Human Settlements
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Jane Battersby April 17, 2018Jane Battersby joins Global Nutrition Report’s group experts
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Stephen Berrisford February 26, 2018New video series on urban law reform in Africa launched
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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