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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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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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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June 23, 2016Embedded PhD Research Opportunities at the City of Cape Town and UCT
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June 22, 2016Resilience in South Africa’s urban water landscape
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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