Urban Research
Active Projects
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The Nourished Child
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GreenGov
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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
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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Anna Taylor, Edgar Pieterse, Gareth Haysom, Liza Rose Cirolia, Rike Sitas, Warren Smit March 10, 2021Realising Just Cities
Realising Just Cities by Leonie Joubert and the Mistra Urban Futures Realising Just Cities team, is a new book which explores the intersecting themes of spatial, cultural and environmental justice as investigated in the research of the Realising Just Cities project. The book paints a picture of the shape and nature of our cities. It […]
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Liza Rose Cirolia December 9, 2020New book explores issues of land and urban governance in Africa
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James Duminy, Susan Parnell May 28, 2020New book on urban reform and innovation
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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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Gareth Haysom, Jane Battersby April 7, 2021Rebuilding cities: Better planning for better health
How do we build a fairer, healthier world for everyone? In a world that has forever been changed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and are in many ways looking to be rebuilt, this is precisely the question World Health Day 2021 prompts us to consider, writes Liezel M. Engelbrecht. (more…)
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Gareth Haysom April 7, 2021Spilling the beans: Revealing the complexity at the heart of urban food systems
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March 26, 2021From lifestyle disease to food systems disease
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Jane Battersby March 12, 2021Pandemic praxis: adapting research methods within COVID-19 constraints
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Andrew Tucker, Anton Cartwright March 11, 2021New report on cities’ central role in meeting the challenges of our time
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Rike Sitas January 4, 2021Assessing the needs for tailor-made training
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February 26, 2021Working Paper: Understanding the Linkages Between Urban Food Systems and Non-Communicable Diseases in Namibia
Understanding the Linkages Between Urban Food Systems and Non-Communicable Diseases in Namiba by researchers Ndeyapo Nickanor, Tobias Shinyemba and Lawrence Kazembe, is the fourth in a series of Nourishing Spaces working papers edited by Jane Battersby. (more…)
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February 4, 2021Working Paper: Food Systems and Diet-related Non-Communicable Diseases in Kisumu, Kenya
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December 9, 2020Working Paper: Household Consumption Patterns and NCDs in Kisumu, Kenya
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November 23, 2020Food Systems and Diet-Related NCDS in Cape Town, South Africa
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Rike Sitas, Vaughn Sadie September 22, 2020New report synthesises learnings from SA-EU Dialogue on cultural planning
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Liza Rose Cirolia, Nobukhosi Ngwenya September 22, 2020Conflicts Between and Within: The ‘Conflicting Rationalities’ of Informal Occupation in South Africa