Urban Research
Active 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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ACC Academic Seminar Series and Brown Bag Sessions
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Urban Humanities Hub
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Urban Infrastructure: Land Values, Housing & Transport
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Serious Fun
Archived Projects
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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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Anton Cartwright January 22, 2016What is a smart African city like?
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Henrik Ernstson, Mary Lawhon June 19, 2015Antipode Abstract: Situated Urban Political Ecology
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Prof. Jo Beall October 7, 2013Conflict and State Fragility
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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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Bradley Rink September 26, 2013Densification, Quartering & Culture
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Ivan Turok September 26, 2013Driving Density Higher: Challenges for Central Cape Town
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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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September 6 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 pmIntegration Complexities at Open Book Festival
Adi Kumar, Premesh Lalu and Edgar Pieterse report back on the Integration Syndicate – an aimed at finding solutions to challenges facing Cape Town. Chaired by Pippa Green. Date: 6 September Venue: Fugard Studio Time: 10:00 – 11:00 Price: R45 Full festival programme. Book tickets. NOTE: A limited number of free tickets for students are […]
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September 6 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmWriting Cities at Open Book Festival
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September 8 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmCities in Fiction at Open Book Festival
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September 8 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmNew Urban Worlds at Open Book Festival
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November 13 - November 15Mistra Urban Futures Annual International Conference 2017
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July 21, 2017Integration Syndicate Episode 2: Building a new city for future generations
As much as Athlone was a crossover space enabling art, music and other creativity in the 60s and 70s, the 1980s brought a new narrative to bear: one of increasing protests against the apartheid state, and the concomitant violence with which they were met. One of the worst incidents was on October 15, 1985. Known […]
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July 17, 2017In the press: Cinema that cut through the divides of apartheid
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Edgar Pieterse July 13, 2017Integration Syndicate: Episode 2
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July 5, 2017Dr Andrew Tucker joins ACC as Deputy Director
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Edgar Pieterse June 5, 2017Integration Syndicate: Episode 1
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Jane Battersby, Gareth Haysom June 1, 2017Nourishing Spaces Launched
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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