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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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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August 30 - September 1Southern Africa City Studies Conference
Since 2009 the Southern Africa City Studies Conference (SACSC) series has provided an interdisciplinary forum for researchers examining urban issues in Southern Africa. We are pleased to announce that the fifth conference in this series will take place from 30 August to 1 September 2020 at the University of the Witwatersrand. Recent interest in comparative […]
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November 18 - November 20Association of African Planning Schools Conference 2020
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January 13, 2021 - January 17, 2021The coloniality of infrastructure: Eurafrican legacies
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May 7, 2020BLOG: The urban poor in Sub-Saharan Africa under the coronavirus pandemic – a view from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
In this article urban scholars at the Dar es Salaam City Lab at the Institute for Human Settlements Studies and at the School of Architecture at Ardhi University reflect on how the covid-19 crisis magnifies a more enduring urban crisis in cities of the Global South. (more…)
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Sylvia Croese May 4, 2020Advancing the 2030 Agenda in African cities through knowledge co-production: Urban experiments led by early-career African scientists
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Anton Cartwright April 16, 2020Urban Service Delivery Innovation
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Anton Cartwright April 6, 2020IN THE PRESS: Future Cities Interview with Anton Cartwright
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Sylvia Croese March 30, 2020LIRA Annual Research Forum
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Anton Cartwright March 6, 2020Urbanisation Lab delivers co-produced policy guidance for Ghanaian government
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Liza Rose Cirolia, Anton Cartwright June 22, 2020New report on why and how to invest in Africa’s city infrastructure
Over the past two years ACC and international law firm, Pinsent Masons have collaborated on developing an African Cities Thought Leadership Programme. (more…)
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Sylvia Croese May 4, 2020
Advancing the 2030 Agenda in African cities through knowledge co-production: Urban experiments led by early-career African scientists
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Jane Battersby March 10, 2020No Looking Back: [Food]ways Forward for Healthy African Cities in Light of Climate Change
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Anton Cartwright February 3, 2020
Cities as a Strategic Resource: Guideline for Ghana’s National Urban Policy Revision
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January 27, 2020The Macro-Economic Impact of Two Different Industrial Development Pathways in Ghana
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Anton Cartwright August 21, 2019Launch of Tanzania’s Urbanisation Roadmap