Africa
Active Projects
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Whose Heritage Matters
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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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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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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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Jane Battersby, Vanessa Watson November 1, 2018LAUNCH: Tomatoes & Taxi Ranks – Running our Cities to Fill the Food Gap
HOW DO THE CITIES WE LIVE IN SHAPE WHAT WE EAT? This question is central to a new book, Tomatoes & Taxi Ranks: Running our Cities to Fill the Food Gap, by Leonie Joubert with Jane Battersby and Vanessa Watson published by the African Centre for Cities. (more…)
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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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August 27, 2018Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities
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March 31, 2014The Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South
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January 20, 2014Africa’s Urban Revolution edited by Susan Parnell and Edgar Pieterse
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September 26 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pmBeyond our borders: Independent art spaces as a lens on city futures
Four leading shapers of the contemporary art world from cutting-edge independent spaces on the African continent will next week share their insights and experience in a public panel hosted in central Cape Town. The panellists, who respectively manage or help direct programming for multidisciplinary contemporary art spaces in Addis Ababa, Cairo, Dar es Salaam and […]
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October 17 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pmFinancing infrastructure in cities of the global South
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Anton Cartwright August 21, 2019Launch of Tanzania’s Urbanisation Roadmap
For Tanzania, rapidly growing cities could either become a national liability or the springboard towards global competitiveness, sustainability and middle-income status. Tanzania has both a growing economy and an urbanising population, but the two trends are not currently mutually reinforcing. (more…)
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Liza Rose Cirolia, Sylvia Croese August 1, 2019IN THE PRESS: Two experts reveal the importance of African cities for our future
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July 19, 2019New ACC paper argues for strengthening integrity within the planning profession to combat corruption in urban development
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Sylvia Croese, Liza Rose Cirolia June 20, 2019Financing the SDGs in African cities?
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Sylvia Croese May 22, 2019How data-ready are African governments to monitor SDG Progress?
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Ntombini Marrengane May 9, 2019Challenging the formal/informal dichotomy
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July 19, 2019New ACC paper argues for strengthening integrity within the planning profession to combat corruption in urban development
by Christian Alexander The scourge of corruption in urban development has corrosive and far-reaching effects that can hardwire injustice into the fabric of cities and undermine social cohesion and trust within communities. Staggering figures reflecting the prevalence and impact of corruption in urban development demonstrate that tackling this issue is a key policy challenge of […]
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Edgar Pieterse, Anton Cartwright, Liza Rose Cirolia June 4, 2019Africa 2063: How Cities Will Shape the Future of a Continent
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Edgar Pieterse April 2, 2019NEW PAPER: The Potential for Sustainable Urbanisation in Africa
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Liza Rose Cirolia February 12, 2019Property Tax in African Secondary Cities: Insights from the Cases of Kisumu (Kenya) and M’Bour (Senegal)
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Anton Cartwright, Edgar Pieterse, Ian Palmer, Anna Taylor, Susan Parnell October 23, 2018Working Paper: Developing Prosperous and Inclusive Cities in Africa – National Urban Policies to the Rescue?
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Liza Rose Cirolia, Stephen Berrisford, Ian Palmer September 11, 2018Land-based financing in sub-Saharan African cities