Africa
Active Projects
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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
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African Urban Research Initiative (AURI)
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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September 27 @ 6:00 pmJHB launch of ‘August House is Dead, Long Live August House!’
Writer, artist and research associate at the University of Cape Town’s African Centre for Cities (ACC), Kim Gurney pens a new book on the evolving art space August House in Johannesburg. August House is Dead, Long Live August House! The Story of a Johannesburg Atelier, published by FourthWall Books, is a fascinating study of the role of […]
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October 6 @ 6:00 pmCT launch of ‘August House is Dead, Long Live August House!’
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November 13 - November 15Mistra Urban Futures Annual International Conference 2017
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February 1, 2018 @ 8:00 am - February 3, 2018 @ 5:00 pm
African Centre for Cities International Urban Conference 2018
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Jane Battersby, Gareth Haysom June 1, 2017Nourishing Spaces Launched
ACC launches a new IDRC-funded project called Nourishing Spaces which investigates urban food systems in the prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in South Africa, Kenya and Namibia.
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Henrietta Nyamnjoh September 2, 2016African Humanities Program Postdoctoral Fellowships 2016
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Anna Taylor April 4, 2016Job Opportunity: City Embedded Researcher: FRACTAL Cities and Climate Change Project
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February 3, 2016ACC/UN- Habitat collaboration
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Anton Cartwright November 13, 2015
What does a ‘smart’ African city look like?
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Anton Cartwright September 8, 2015
Better Growth, Better Cities: Rethinking and Redirecting Urbanisation in Africa
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Warren Smit May 24, 2016Urban governance and urban food systems in Africa: Examining the linkages
Urban food systems have increasingly been recognised as a topic that needs to be better understood, in order to address issues of urban food security and urban poverty. This is particularly so in Africa, which has high rates of urban population growth and high levels of urban food insecurity. There has, however, been surprisingly little work on examining […]
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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
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June 10, 2015Reality check: Planning education in the African urban century
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April 30, 2015Urban infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa: literature reviews
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Anna Taylor June 22, 2014Strengthening climate resilience in African cities