Urban Research
Active Projects
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A central corruption problem in development: urbanisation and the role of professional integrity in urban planning
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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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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
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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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
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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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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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May 28 @ 2:00 am - 3:00 pmFrom platform to plotform: Artistic thinking in spaces of flux
From platform to plotform: Artistic thinking in spaces of flux is a public talk in which ACC research associate Kim Gurney shares work in progress on her project called Platform/ Plotform to help forward future work and interdisciplinary outputs. The project explores working principles identified in participant independent art spaces in five African cities (Nairobi, Accra, […]
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June 19 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pmSDG Seminar Series: Financing the SDGs in African cities?
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September 10 @ 8:00 am - September 13 @ 5:00 pmInternational Transdisciplinarity Conference 2019
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Ntombini Marrengane May 9, 2019Challenging the formal/informal dichotomy
The African Urban Research Initiative (AURI) is co-hosting a methods workshop from 6 to 10 May 2019, in Lusaka, Zambia, focused on the formal/informal interface at the city scale. The Formal-Informal Interface Workshop emerges from ongoing comparative research conducted under the umbrella of AURI which, aims at challenging the dichotomy between informal and formal areas, […]
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Anton Cartwright May 7, 2019IN THE PRESS: How to achieve low carbon service delivery
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Sylvia Croese April 2, 2019LIRA Annual Research Forum
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Warren Smit February 4, 2019IN THE PRESS: Bloated bodies and barren lands
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Edgar Pieterse, Susan Parnell January 10, 2019New report: Science and the Future of Cities
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Caroline Skinner, Gareth Haysom October 23, 2018In the press: Informal trade may hold the key to food security
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Alicia Fortuin May 13, 2019“Ride-sharing”, virtual capital and impacts on labor in Cape Town, South Africa
ABSTRACT Informalization and casualization have been twin meta-trends in African development over the last several decades. However these processes are also now being articulated with, and altered by, processes of virtual accumulation and informationalization, giving rise to what some have called Uberization. (more…)
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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
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Gareth Haysom May 8, 2018“Measurement drives diagnosis and response”: Gaps in transferring food security assessment to the urban scale
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Jane Battersby, Vanessa Watson May 7, 2018Addressing food security in African cities
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Warren Smit May 24, 2016Urban governance and urban food systems in Africa: Examining the linkages