Projects
Active Projects
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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
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The Knowledge Transfer Programme
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Urban Africa Risk Knowledge (Urban Ark)
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Future Resilience for African Cities & Lands (FRACTAL)
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Governance dynamics of “turn-around” cities (Lagos, Luanda & Johannesburg)
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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Lindsay Sawyer October 27, 2016The City is the People
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Lindsay Sawyer 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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Prof. Jo Beall 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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Christine Hentschel September 30, 2013Space, Affect, Security: Reflections on ‘Outcharming’ Crime in the City
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Patti Anahory September 30, 2013Entering the City
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Iain Louw September 30, 2013[Re]Writing Type : Architecture in an age of [radical] transformation
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Pep Subirós September 30, 2013Comments on a Global World and Fragmented Localities
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Graeme Gotz 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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July 31 - August 1Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities
The Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) and the African Centre for Cities (ACC) will jointly host a conference on Refractions of the National, the Popular, and the Global in African cities. Venue: Wallenberg Research Centre in Stellenbosch, South Africa Date: Monday 31 July & Tuesday 1 August 2017 There has been a significant expansion […]
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November 13 - November 15Mistra Urban Futures Annual International Conference 2017
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Jane Battersby, Gareth Haysom June 1, 2017Nourishing Spaces Launched
ACC launches a new IDRC-funded project called Nourishing Spaces which investigates urban food systems in the prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in South Africa, Kenya and Namibia.
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Caroline Skinner May 24, 2017UN High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment report released
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Katherine Hyman, Edgar Pieterse March 28, 2017Call for submission: ACC International Urban Conference
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Henrik Ernstson October 11, 2016Seminar: Emancipation in an Urban Century
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Henrik Ernstson September 14, 2016The Urban Action Lab at Makerere University is in action!
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Henrietta Nyamnjoh September 2, 2016African Humanities Program Postdoctoral Fellowships 2016
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Warren Smit May 24, 2016Urban governance and urban food systems in Africa: Examining the linkages
Urban food systems have increasingly been recognised as a topic that needs to be better understood, in order to address issues of urban food security and urban poverty. This is particularly so in Africa, which has high rates of urban population growth and high levels of urban food insecurity. There has, however, been surprisingly little work on examining […]
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Warren Smit May 24, 2016Making unhealthy places: The built environment and non-communicable diseases in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
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Henrik Ernstson May 17, 2016Re-translating nature in post-apartheid Cape Town: The material semiotics of people and plants at Bottom Road
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Henrik Ernstson May 10, 2016Principles of Social-Ecological Urbanism: Case study Albano Campus, Stockholm
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Henrik Ernstson May 10, 2016Conceptual vectors of African Urbanism: ‘Engaged Theory-Making’ and ‘Platforms of Engagement’
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Henrik Ernstson, Mary Lawhon May 10, 2016Provincializing Urban Political Ecology: Towards a Situated UPE through African Urbanism