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Edgar Pieterse November 23, 2013ACC’s MPhil in Urban Infrastructure: Design & Management
A central issue for both South Africa and the broader African continent is the delivery of urban services and infrastructure to rapidly growing urban populations, enabling the urban residents to live and work in sustainable and integrated environments. The Master of Philosophy in Urban Infrastructure: Design and Management programme, presented for mid and late career […]
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October 7, 2013Cities & Development
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August 20, 2013Cities & Development
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August 20, 2013Crisis States
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October 7, 2013Cities & Development
This lecture was delivered by Professor Manuel Castells during his visit to Cape Town in 2009.
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September 30, 2013Urbanisation and Development in Historical Perspective
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August 26, 2013Violence Prevention Through Urban Upgrading
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August 26, 2013Quick Guide 7 – Rental Housing
Millions of people in African cities are tenants.
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August 26, 2013Quick Guide 06 – Community Based Organizations
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September 10 @ 8:00 am - September 13 @ 5:00 pmInternational Transdisciplinarity Conference 2019
The International Transdisciplinary Conference 2019, co-organised by the University of Gothenburg and Mistra Urban Futures, takes place 10 to 13 September 2019 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Our societies are facing critical points in their development, where large challenges are becoming increasingly difficult to handle. Numerous conflicts and complexities are surfacing – to which we can see […]
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August 12, 2019BLOG: Between Dreams and Living Life: What the Everyday unveils…
The first semester of the MPhil in Southern Urbanism at the African Centre for Cities , University of Cape Town swept away cobwebs of old stale ways of thinking about life in the city and pushed every necessary “refresh” button. My internal adventures, both of the mental and spirit kind carefully choreographed and facilitated by […]
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August 1, 2019BLOG: Walking in the city – inquiries into the everyday
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Sophie Oldfield, Laura Nkula-Wenz January 7, 2019Urban Immersions
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Sophie Oldfield June 7, 2018City Research Studio, part 1, version 1.0: Out of the classroom; into the city
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Edgar Pieterse July 17, 2017ACC launches new Masters in Southern Urbanism
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Henrik Ernstson April 26, 2017PhD Seminar Series: Democratic Practices of Unequal Geographies
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Vanessa Watson November 26, 2013Who will plan Africa’s cities?
As planning educators seek to train students for employment within the existing system, the urban and rural planning curricula of many planning schools are as outdated as planning legislation. Some African countries have no planning school.The reform and revitalisation of planning education – and legislation – could contribute significantly to sustainable and more equitable urban […]