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, 2014
On Southern African Climate Adaptation
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October 7, 2013
Conflict 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, 2013
Space, Affect, Security: Reflections on ‘Outcharming’ Crime in the City
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September 30, 2013
Entering the City
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September 30, 2013
On 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, 2013
Imperatives for a holistic urban agenda
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March 10, 2021
New 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, 2020
Teasing 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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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, 2018
Interpreting 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, 2021
ACC 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, 2021
Working 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, 2021
Working Paper: Food Systems and Diet-related Non-Communicable Diseases in Kisumu, Kenya
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December 9, 2020
Working 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, 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