Africa
Active Projects
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African Cities Thought Leadership Programme
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Whose Heritage Matters?
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Platform
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Nourishing Spaces
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African Centre for Cities International Urban Conference
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Africa Peer Learning, Knowledge and Dissemination Programme
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Urban Africa Risk Knowledge (Urban Ark)
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Governance dynamics of “turn-around” cities (Lagos, Luanda & Johannesburg)
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UrbanAfrica.net
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Urban Infrastructure: Land Values, Housing & Transport
Archived Projects
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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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Tau Tavengwa, Edgar Pieterse October 12, 2016In Context
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Anton Cartwright January 22, 2016What is a smart African city like?
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Susan Parnell October 12, 2014Susan Parnell discusses ‘Africa’s Urban Revolution’
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Edgar Pieterse August 15, 2014How can we transcend slum urbanism in Africa?
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April 11, 2014On Southern African Climate Adaptation
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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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Tau Tavengwa, Edgar Pieterse September 30, 2013Urbanisation and the Continent: The Big Picture
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September 30, 2013Space, Affect, Security: Reflections on ‘Outcharming’ Crime in the City
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September 30, 2013Entering the City
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September 30, 2013On the Geography and Architecture of Prisons and the South African Condition
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AbdouMaliq Simone September 30, 2013On the Complexity of Life in the African City
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Caroline Skinner, Gareth Haysom October 14, 2016Informal Food Retailers – Undervalued, Ignored and Abused?
A presentation by Gareth Haysom and Caroline Skinner. given at the Society of South African Geographers Conference in Stellenbosch, 27 September 2016. The presentation is entitled Informal Food Retailers – Undervalued, Ignored and Abused?
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Anton Cartwright November 13, 2015What does a ‘smart’ African city look like?
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Ian Palmer, Stephen Berrisford August 7, 2015African Urban Infrastructure Symposium
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July 25, 2013Imperatives for a holistic urban agenda
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March 10, 2021New book explores the notion of ‘just cities’ and how we might realise them
What is a just city? How do notions of spatial, cultural and environmental (in)justice manifest in cities? How do we realise more just cities that work for all citizens? (more…)
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December 9, 2020Teasing out the complexities of densification policy and processes
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December 9, 2020New book by African Urban Research Initiative
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Jane Battersby, Vanessa Watson November 1, 2018LAUNCH: Tomatoes & Taxi Ranks – Running our Cities to Fill the Food Gap
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Edgar Pieterse November 1, 2018Edgar Pieterse on ‘Tomatoes & Taxi Ranks’
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September 5, 2018Interpreting Kigali, Rwanda
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Liza Rose Cirolia, Rike Sitas April 20, 2021Third AURI Workshop: Comparing tables and elephants
The AURI workshop series concluded on 25 March with an interactive session about comparative and collaborative research. Moderated by Liza Cirolia and Rike Sitas, this workshop built on the two previous workshops on co-production and communication and focused on the value comparative studies offers to Urban Theory and practice across African cities. (more…)
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Gareth Haysom, Rike Sitas March 15, 2021Unpacking co-production in second AURI workshop
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Zarina Patel March 5, 2021Workshop series shares experience and practical skills with emerging scholars
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March 4, 2021ACC partners with RISE Africa to host new urban action festival
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Rike Sitas January 4, 2021Assessing the needs for tailor-made training
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Edgar Pieterse, Rike Sitas, Mercy Brown-Luthango December 9, 2020Online urban-development training by and for African professionals
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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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Rike Sitas, Vaughn Sadie September 22, 2020New report synthesises learnings from SA-EU Dialogue on cultural planning
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Liza Rose Cirolia September 22, 2020
Contested fiscal geographies: Urban authority, everyday practice, and emerging state-finance relations
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Rike Sitas July 16, 2020Cultural policy and just cities in Africa