Urban Research
Active Projects
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African Cities Thought Leadership Programme
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SA-EU dialogue: Cultural Mapping, Planning and Impact Assessment for Sustainable and Just Urban Development
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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
Archived Projects
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Exploratory Process into the Relevance of an Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA) for Cape Town
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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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James Duminy, Susan Parnell May 28, 2020New book on urban reform and innovation
African Centre for Cities has just published a new book Supporting City Futures: The Cities Support Programme and the Urban Challenge in South Africa by James Duminy and Susan Parnell. In 2018 the Cities Support Programme (CSP), an initiative of the South African National Treasury, approached ACC to assist with the production of a book […]
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Warren Smit, Rike Sitas, Sylvia Croese April 2, 2020Comparative Urban Research from Theory to Practice – Co-Production for Sustainability
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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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Sophie Oldfield May 27, 2020Distinguished award for Prof Sophie Oldfield
The Society of South African Geographers recently announced the successful nominees for the Society’s most senior honorary awards: fellowships of the society and the gold medal. African Centre for Cities is proud to share that Prof Sophie Oldfield has been awarded a Fellowship of the Society. Fellowships of the society are honorary awards made by […]
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Jane Battersby May 12, 2020South Africa’s lockdown regulations and the reinforcement of anti‑informality bias
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Sylvia Croese May 4, 2020Advancing the 2030 Agenda in African cities through knowledge co-production: Urban experiments led by early-career African scientists
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Anton Cartwright April 16, 2020Urban Service Delivery Innovation
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Warren Smit April 6, 2020IN THE PRESS: Upgrades to informal settlements urgently needed
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Sylvia Croese March 30, 2020LIRA Annual Research Forum
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Liza Rose Cirolia, Anton Cartwright June 22, 2020New report on why and how to invest in Africa’s city infrastructure
Over the past two years ACC and international law firm, Pinsent Masons have collaborated on developing an African Cities Thought Leadership Programme. (more…)
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Andrew Tucker, Neil R. Hassan May 11, 2020Situating sexuality: An interconnecting research agenda in the urban global south
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Sylvia Croese May 4, 2020
Advancing the 2030 Agenda in African cities through knowledge co-production: Urban experiments led by early-career African scientists
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Jane Battersby March 10, 2020No Looking Back: [Food]ways Forward for Healthy African Cities in Light of Climate Change
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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