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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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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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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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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December 5, 2019Qualitative Action Experiment tackles professional integrity in the Zambian planning sector
From the 8 to 10 October 2019, the Cities of Integrity project – in partnership with the Centre for Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Zambia and the Zambian Institute of Planners (ZIP) – conducted a Qualitative Action Experiment (QAE) in Lusaka. In this article, researchers Dorothy Ndhlovu, Gilbert Siame and Laura Nkula-Wenz, […]
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Sylvia Croese October 29, 2019Citizen-centric approaches to achieving the SDGs in Africa: reflections from practice
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September 30, 2019SDG indicators for health outcomes in South Africa
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Edgar Pieterse September 11, 2019INTERVIEW: Edgar Pieterse chats to John Maytham about the Integration Syndicate
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Anton Cartwright August 21, 2019Launch of Tanzania’s Urbanisation Roadmap
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August 12, 2019BLOG: Between Dreams and Living Life: What the Everyday unveils…
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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?
This article presents one of a number of conclusions from a four-year ESRC/DfID-funded project entitled Consuming Urban Poverty, based at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town. (more…)
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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
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Alicia Fortuin May 13, 2019“Ride-sharing”, virtual capital and impacts on labor in Cape Town, South Africa
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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