Global South
Active Projects
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Coalition for Urban Transitions
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MPhil in Southern Urbanism
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Cityscapes Magazine
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Urban Humanities Hub
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Hungry Cities (Bangalore, Kingston, Maputo, Mexico City, Nairobi, Nanjing)
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Influencing urban planning curricula
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Constructing statistical profiles of urban informal work
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Documenting state and organisational practices
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10 cities: Informal Economy Monitoring Study
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ACC-WIEGO: inclusive planning with informal workers
Archived Projects
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October 27, 2016The City is the People
This 60 second film was shortlisted and was the Judges’ Choice for the 2013 Cinecity Architectural Film Project with the theme ‘Material’. It explores the relationship between people and the making of everyday space in Lagos.
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October 25, 2016Future Cities Laboratory
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May 7, 2015Xiangming Chen on urbanisation in China & South Africa
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November 6, 2014Why Cities Matter
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April 11, 2014On Southern African Climate Adaptation
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October 7, 2013Cities & Development
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October 7, 2013Cities & Development
This lecture was delivered by Professor Manuel Castells during his visit to Cape Town in 2009.
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September 30, 2013Comments on a Global World and Fragmented Localities
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July 3, 2018The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South
The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South offers an edited collection on planning in parts of the world which, more often than not, are unrecognised or unmarked in mainstream planning texts. In doing so, its intention is not to fill a ‘gap’ that leaves this ‘mainstream’ unquestioned but to re-theorise planning from a deep […]
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June 22, 2018Companion to Planning in the Global South
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June 6, 2018Urban Planning in the Global South
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June 28, 2017New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times
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Tau Tavengwa, Edgar Pieterse, Sean O' Toole November 23, 2015Cityscapes #7: Futurity
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Tau Tavengwa March 20, 2015Cityscapes #6: Cape Town: A City Desired
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August 2 @ 1:00 am - November 15 @ 4:30 pmUrban Humanities Seminar Series 2018
Academic Seminars (15:00 – 16:30) 7 August High Stakes, High Hopes: Creating Collaborative Urban Theory – Prof Sophie Oldfield 16 August Inclusive Cultural Governance: Integrating artistic and cultural practices into national urban frameworks – Avril Joffe with respondent Zayd Minty 30 August in search of thick mapping: listening to Cape Town’s cities – Dr Sabina Favaro 18 September Vital […]
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November 19 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pmPublic Finance – the Life Blood of our Cities?
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Rike Sitas, Shari Daya August 2, 2018Call for abstracts: Representing urban life in Africa and its diasporas
It is now widely acknowledged that cities are growing faster in Africa than almost any other region. As our urban populations are burgeoning, so urban art of all kinds is flourishing on the continent, as well as in African diasporas in the global North and South. However, analysed predominantly through developmentalist lenses, as problematic sites […]
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Susan Parnell July 30, 2018In the Press: Sustainable cities depend on collective responsibility and action
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June 11, 2018In the Press: Urban planning can help heal social injustices
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June 11, 2018In the Press: It may just be a city, but is it a ‘just’ city? As in fair and open?
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Sophie Oldfield June 7, 2018City Research Studio, part 1, version 1.0: Out of the classroom; into the city
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Sean O' Toole February 21, 2018New turns in urban thinking from the south
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Gareth Haysom May 8, 2018“Measurement drives diagnosis and response”: Gaps in transferring food security assessment to the urban scale
ABSTRACT The understanding of food security has seen major shifts since the original conceptualisations of the challenge. These changes in understanding have been accompanied by different food security measurement approaches. (more…)
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February 11, 2018Better Urban Growth in Tanzania: A Preliminary Exploration of the Opportunities and Challenges
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Caroline Skinner December 1, 2016Environment and Urbanization Special Issue on Urban Livelihoods
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Susan Parnell October 12, 2016Scientists must have a say in the future of cities
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Zarina Patel May 22, 2015Scalar politics and local sustainability: rethinking governance and justice in an era of political and environmental change
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Susan Parnell January 28, 2015Consultation on the UN Open Working Group on the SDGs’ Urban SDG Goal 11: Targets & Indicators