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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December 9, 2020Teasing out the complexities of densification policy and processes
Providing an in-depth exploration of the complexities of densification policy and processes, Densifying the City? brings the important experiences of densification in Johannesburg into conversation with a range of cities in Africa, the BRICS countries and the Global North. Edited by Margot Rubin, Alison Todes, Philip Harrison and Alexandra Appelbaum, School of Architecture and Planning, […]
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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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August 27, 2018Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities
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January 13 - January 17The coloniality of infrastructure: Eurafrican legacies
NOTE: Conference has been rescheduled for 13 to 17 January 2021. When Eurafrica emerged in the 1920s as an intellectual and political project to connect Europe with Africa, its goal was to ensure European colonial dominance in a changing world. Key to the proposed continental merger was infrastructure—not surprising at a time when railways, ports, […]
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Edgar Pieterse, Rike Sitas, Mercy Brown-Luthango December 9, 2020Online urban-development training by and for African professionals
African Centre for Cities is one of five knowledge institutions that will be collaborating to develop MOOCs for urban planners to meet the specific challenges of urbanisation on the continent. (more…)
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December 9, 2020Teasing out the complexities of densification policy and processes
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December 9, 2020
New book by African Urban Research Initiative
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Vaughn Sadie October 28, 2020Imagining Impacts – The Goethe-Institut in Africa
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October 22, 2020A view from the inside
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Edgar Pieterse September 22, 2020REFRAME: Aligning Africa’s Urban Agenda
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December 9, 2020Working Paper: Household Consumption Patterns and NCDs in Kisumu, Kenya
Household Consumption Patterns and NCDs in Kisumu, Kenya by researchers Paul Otieno Opiyo and Stephen Gaya Agong, is the second in a series of Nourishing Spaces working papers edited by Jane Battersby. (more…)
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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, 2020Contested 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
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Laura Nkula-Wenz July 10, 2020Methodological considerations for researching corruption and building urban integrity – a Qualitative Action Experiment in Zambia
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July 10, 2020Second Cities of Integrity Working Paper reflects on the Zambian Qualitative Action Experiment