Urban Research
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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ACC Academic Seminar Series and Brown Bag Sessions
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Urban Humanities Hub
Archived Projects
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Exploratory Process into the Relevance of an Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA) for Cape Town
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SA-EU dialogue: Cultural Mapping, Planning and Impact Assessment for Sustainable and Just Urban Development
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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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Governing Food Systems to Alleviate Poverty in Secondary Cities
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Climate Change Adaptation at the Local Scale
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The Density Syndicate
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Cape Urban Observatory
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Anton Cartwright February 24, 2019Urban Stories: Documenting Everyday Life in Tanzania
URBAN STORIES (English) – Documenting everyday life in Tanzania – Water and Sanitation from Eric Schaechter on Vimeo. To ignore informal service provision in Tanzanian cities is to miss an opportunity. Informal water and sanitation providers, featured in this film by an ARDHI University research team, have devised innovative ways to overcome service delivery backlogs. […]
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November 3, 2016Visualising the Future of Our Neighbourhoods
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October 27, 2016The City is the People
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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 June 19, 2015Antipode Abstract: Situated Urban Political Ecology
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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 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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Warren Smit, Rike Sitas, Sylvia Croese April 2, 2020Comparative Urban Research from Theory to Practice – Co-Production for Sustainability
Comparative Urban Research from Theory to Practice – Co-Production for Sustainability edited by David Simon, Henrietta Palmer, and Jan Riise reflects on the research and experience of the Mistra Urban Futures (MUF) programme, which concluded at the end of 2019. Reporting on the innovative, transdisciplinary research on sustainable urbanisation being undertaken by Mistra Urban Futures, the […]
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Sophie Oldfield November 5, 2019Building Houses Bit-by-Bit: The stories of Hazeldean-Ekupumleni
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Caroline Skinner May 4, 2016Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia and Informality in SA
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August 30 - September 1Southern Africa City Studies Conference
Since 2009 the Southern Africa City Studies Conference (SACSC) series has provided an interdisciplinary forum for researchers examining urban issues in Southern Africa. We are pleased to announce that the fifth conference in this series will take place from 30 August to 1 September 2020 at the University of the Witwatersrand. Recent interest in comparative […]
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November 18 - November 20Association of African Planning Schools Conference 2020
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January 13, 2021 - January 17, 2021The coloniality of infrastructure: Eurafrican legacies
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Sylvia Croese March 30, 2020LIRA Annual Research Forum
Early-career researchers working on projects as part of the Leading Integrated Research for Agenda 2030 in Africa (LIRA 2030) programme met over three days from 17 to 19 February in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The researchers shared their experiences in project implementation and sought to foster collaboration in tackling sustainability challenges across African cities. As Principle […]
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Anton Cartwright March 6, 2020Urbanisation Lab delivers co-produced policy guidance for Ghanaian government
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February 18, 2020Integrity in urban development
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February 11, 2020COI at the World Urban Forum – Cities of Opportunities: Connecting culture and innovation
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Anna Taylor, Gina Ziervogel January 28, 2020Climate and cities
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Jane Battersby January 28, 2020Call for papers: Special Issue on urban food policies for a sustainable and just future
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Jane Battersby March 10, 2020No Looking Back: [Food]ways Forward for Healthy African Cities in Light of Climate Change
The recent IPCC Climate Change and Land Report [1] lays out evidence of the need for urgent shifts in the global systems in light of climate change. This commentary reflects on Chapter 5, the Food Security chapter, from our perspective as researchers focused on urban food systems and non-communicable disease in Africa. (more…)
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Gina Ziervogel January 28, 2020Unpacking the Cape Town Drought: Lessons Learned
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January 28, 2020Green Infrastructure in South African Cities
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Anna Taylor January 28, 2020Climate information for building resilient South African cities
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January 27, 2020The Macro-Economic Impact of Two Different Industrial Development Pathways in Ghana
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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?