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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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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Sophie Oldfield November 5, 2019Building Houses Bit-by-Bit: The stories of Hazeldean-Ekupumleni
The City Research Studio (CRS) is a year-long course presented as part of the newly launched MPhil in Southern Urbanism as well as part of the Masters in Critical Urbanisms (University of Basel) semester at UCT. The CRS is a three-part experimental space for students, and faculty, to engage in the city, to learn to walk, see, smell, touch, embrace, explore […]
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Caroline Skinner May 4, 2016Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia and Informality in SA
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February 27 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pmNon-Motorised Transport Capabilities and Needs in Sub-Saharan African Cities
Join ACC’s researcher Sean Cooke for an open discussion on non-motorised transport capabilities and needs in Sub-saharan African cities. The two-hour session will start with a presentation by Bianca Ryseck on the capabilities approach and its applications to mobility followed by an open discussion to further understanding NMT needs of vulnerable groups through their capabilities. […]
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February 27 @ 5:30 pmBook launch: Participatory Theatre and the Urban Everyday in South Africa
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June 24 - June 26The coloniality of infrastructure: Eurafrican legacies
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August 30 - September 1Southern Africa City Studies Conference
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November 18 - November 20Association of African Planning Schools Conference 2020
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February 18, 2020Integrity in urban development
The tenth World Urban Forum in Abu Dhabi brought together thousands of advocates, civil society organisations, practitioners and government officials to discuss the impacts of urbanisation, housing, land and climate change. Panel discussions, roundtables and networking sessions focused on addressing poverty, inequality and human rights. Despite the strong emphasis on accountability and transparency in the […]
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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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Edgar Pieterse, Kim Gurney January 24, 2020VIDEO: Beyond our borders – Independent art spaces as a lens on city futures
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December 5, 2019Qualitative Action Experiment tackles professional integrity in the Zambian planning sector
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Gina Ziervogel January 28, 2020Unpacking the Cape Town Drought: Lessons Learned
The severe drought experienced by Cape Town between 2015 and 2018 and the imminent threat of “Day Zero” should serve as a warning for other cities as to what climate impacts might look like in future. This paper, Gina Ziervogel, unpacks the governance of the drought in Cape Town, in order to understand what conditions […]
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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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Jane Battersby, Vanessa Watson October 8, 2019The planned ‘city-region’ in the New Urban Agenda: an appropriate framing for urban food security?
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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