Projects
Active Projects
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Whose Heritage Matters
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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
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Integration Syndicate
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Cityscapes Magazine
Archived Projects
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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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Migration & Informal Entrepreneurship in Southern Africa
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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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October 13 - October 18Realising Just Cities conference week
The 4th Annual Realising Just Cities Conference takes place in Sheffield, UK from 13-18 October 2019. The conference focuses on lessons, impacts and outcomes since the start of Mistra Urban Futures (MUF) in 2010 but with particular emphasis on the current 2016-19 phase of closer international collaborative and comparative research now ending. MUF has sought […]
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October 15 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pmThe city/psychosis nexus beyond epidemiology and social constructivism
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October 17 @ 9:30 am - 5:00 pmFinancing infrastructure in cities of the global South
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September 30, 2019SDG indicators for health outcomes in South Africa
On 18 September, Prof Salome Maswime, Associate Professor, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and Head of Global Surgery at the University of Cape Town (UCT), presented a talk on SDG indicators for health outcomes in South Africa. The seminar, this time hosted collaboratively by the African Centre for Cities with the Department of Medicine of the Faculty […]
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Edgar Pieterse September 11, 2019INTERVIEW: Edgar Pieterse chats to John Maytham about the Integration Syndicate
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August 28, 2019Cities of Integrity project launch in Zambia
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Anton Cartwright August 21, 2019Launch of Tanzania’s Urbanisation Roadmap
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August 12, 2019BLOG: Between Dreams and Living Life: What the Everyday unveils…
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Ntombini Marrengane May 9, 2019Challenging the formal/informal dichotomy
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Jane Battersby, Vanessa Watson October 8, 2019The planned ‘city-region’ in the New Urban Agenda: an appropriate framing for urban food security?
This article presents one of a number of conclusions from a four-year ESRC/DfID-funded project entitled Consuming Urban Poverty, based at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town. (more…)
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Amy Weimann October 7, 2019A Systematised Review of the Health Impact of Urban Informal Settlements and Implications for Upgrading Interventions in South Africa, a Rapidly Urbanising Middle-Income Country
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Edgar Pieterse, Anton Cartwright, Liza Rose Cirolia June 4, 2019
Africa 2063: How Cities Will Shape the Future of a Continent
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Alicia Fortuin May 13, 2019“Ride-sharing”, virtual capital and impacts on labor in Cape Town, South Africa
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Edgar Pieterse, Gareth Haysom, Susan Parnell May 8, 2018African dreams: locating urban infrastructure in the 2030 sustainable developmental agenda
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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