Africa
Active Projects
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Nourishing Spaces
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African Centre for Cities International Urban Conference
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HICCUP: Heterogenous Infrastructure of Cities of Uganda Project: Thinking With the South
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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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African Cities Reader
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Cities Alliance Think Tank on Urbanisation in Africa
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Urban Infrastructure: Land Values, Housing & Transport
Archived Projects
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Tau Tavengwa, Edgar Pieterse October 12, 2016In Context
Africa is not a country!!! This 10 minute remix film acts as a teaser of some concepts and ideas for an upcoming film and exhibition project ACC/Cityscapes will undertake between 2017-19. In Context will explore the true nature and complexity of life in cities across the continent of Africa.
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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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Vanessa Watson February 12, 2014Who will plan Africa’s cities?
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Prof. Jo Beall 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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Christine Hentschel September 30, 2013Space, Affect, Security: Reflections on ‘Outcharming’ Crime in the City
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Patti Anahory September 30, 2013Entering the City
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Kelly Gillespie 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 31, 2014The Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South
The Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South, Edited by Susan Parnell and Sophie Oldfield engages the twenty-first-century city through a ‘southern urban’ lens to stimulate scholarly, professional and activist engagements with the city.
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November 28, 2013Rogue Urbanism: Emergent African Cities
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Caroline Skinner, Richard Dobson November 6, 2013Working in Warwick
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Gerhard Bruyns, Arie Graafland September 17, 2013African Perspectives [South Africa]: City, Society, Space, Literature & Architecture
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August 8, 2013Quick Guide 07: A much neglected housing option for the poor
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June 11, 2018In the Press: With support from CUT, WRI and ACC: ESRF hosts TULab meeting in Dar
With the support from the Coalition for Urban Transitions (CUT), World Resource Institute (WRI) and African Centre for Cities (ACC), Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF) in collaboration with Ministry of Finance and Planning hosted the Tanzania Urbanisation Laboratory (TULab) meeting in Dar es Salaam on Friday. (more…)
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May 8, 2018Follow Nourishing Spaces on YouTube
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Sophie Oldfield May 2, 2018Sophie Oldfield named as Distinguished Africanist Scholar
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Stephen Berrisford February 26, 2018New video series on urban law reform in Africa launched
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Stephen Berrisford February 22, 2018International award for ground-breaking urban law reform guide
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February 3, 2018Reflections on 10 years of the ACC: Four Vignettes
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Edgar Pieterse, Gareth Haysom, Susan Parnell May 8, 2018African dreams: locating urban infrastructure in the 2030 sustainable developmental agenda
ABSTRACT This paper examines African urban infrastructure and service delivery as an entry point for connecting African aspirations with the harsh developmental imperatives of urban management, creating a dialogue between scholarly knowledge and sustainable development policy aspirations. (more…)
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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
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Jane Battersby November 8, 2017Food system transformation in the absence of food system planning: the case of supermarket and shopping mall retail expansion in Cape Town, South Africa
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Warren Smit May 24, 2016Urban governance and urban food systems in Africa: Examining the linkages
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Warren Smit May 24, 2016Urban Health Research in Africa: Themes and Priority Research Questions
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Anton Cartwright September 8, 2015
Better Growth, Better Cities: Rethinking and Redirecting Urbanisation in Africa