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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October 7 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pmREFRAME Conversation 3: Sustainable Infrastructure is the Key to Success
African Centre for Cities and partners present the REFRAME platform to promote informed debate and proposition on how best we can programmatically advance sustainable and inclusive African cities. This propositional conversation series seeks to set an agenda and provide a set of coordinates for multilateral partners, knowledge institutions, social movements, governments, networks and concerned business […]
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October 8 @ 12:00 am - 1:30 pmLoeb Lecture by Edgar Pieterse
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October 14 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pmREFRAME: Conversation 4: Civic Power
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October 21 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
REFRAME Conversation 5: Innovative Regulation is Transformative Politics
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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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Edgar Pieterse September 22, 2020
REFRAME: Aligning Africa’s Urban Agenda
Covid-19 manifests most intensely in cities. As the pandemic unfolds, pre-existing urban problems – especially in cities of the global South – are rendered in stark relief e.g. the chronic lack of access to basic services such as water and sanitation, the inadequacy of primary healthcare infrastructure, and most worryingly, the precarity of livelihoods of […]
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July 10, 2020Second Cities of Integrity Working Paper reflects on the Zambian Qualitative Action Experiment
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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
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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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Rike Sitas, Vaughn Sadie September 22, 2020New report synthesises learnings from SA-EU Dialogue on cultural planning
Funded by the SA-EU Dialogue Facility under the EU-SA Strategic Partnership, the purpose of this exchange was to provide a platform for dialogue between SA and EU partners about the role of cultural mapping, planning and impact assessment in promoting sustainable and just cities. We find ourselves in an unprecedented moment where global policy imperatives […]
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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, 2020
Second Cities of Integrity Working Paper reflects on the Zambian Qualitative Action Experiment
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Liza Rose Cirolia, Anton Cartwright June 22, 2020New report on why and how to invest in Africa’s city infrastructure