Global South
Active Projects
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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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Lindsay Sawyer 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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Lindsay Sawyer October 25, 2016Future Cities Laboratory
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May 7, 2015Xiangming Chen on urbanisation in China & South Africa
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Aromar Revi November 6, 2014Why Cities Matter
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April 11, 2014On Southern African Climate Adaptation
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Manuel Castells October 7, 2013Cities & Development
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Manuel Castells October 7, 2013Cities & Development
This lecture was delivered by Professor Manuel Castells during his visit to Cape Town in 2009.
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Pep Subirós September 30, 2013Comments on a Global World and Fragmented Localities
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June 6, 2018Urban Planning in the Global South
Palgrave Macmillan have recently published a new title by Richard de Satgé and ACC’s Vanessa Watson Urban Planning in the Global South – Conflicting rationalities in contested urban space. (more…)
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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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Tau Tavengwa March 20, 2015
Cityscapes #5: Design will not save the city
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Tau Tavengwa November 29, 2013Cityscapes #4: After informality
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June 11, 2018In the Press: Urban planning can help heal social injustices
Cape Town – Some say apartheid is in the past and members of marginalised groups referencing apartheid for current social injustices they face are not fair. (more…)
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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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Sean O' Toole February 21, 2018New turns in urban thinking from the south
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James Duminy February 19, 2018ACC International Urban Conference: A personal reflection
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Sean O' Toole February 14, 2018African Centre for Cities International Urban Conference: Day 3
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Sean O' Toole February 14, 2018African Centre for Cities International Urban Conference: Day 2
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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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Mary Lawhon, 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