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 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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Anton Cartwright April 6, 2020IN THE PRESS: Future Cities Interview with Anton Cartwright
Exclusive interview with Anton Cartwright, a researcher at the African Centre for Cities (ACC) and a featured speaker in the Future Cities track at African Utility Week and POWERGEN Africa in Cape Town in November. Can we start with the African Centre for Cities and the work that you do? ACC is an interdisciplinary research […]
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February 18, 2020Integrity in urban development
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Edgar Pieterse, Tau Tavengwa November 29, 2019A refreshed editorial approach to Cityscapes magazine launched
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September 30, 2019SDG indicators for health outcomes in South Africa
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August 28, 2019BLOG: Settling into ACC – MPhil Southern Urbanism
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January 31, 2019IN THE PRESS: Romantic visions of pastoral Africa won’t solve urban food insecurity
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Jane Battersby, Vanessa Watson October 8, 2019The planned ‘city-region’ in the New Urban Agenda: an appropriate framing for urban food security?
This article presents one of a number of conclusions from a four-year ESRC/DfID-funded project entitled Consuming Urban Poverty, based at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town. (more…)
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August 1, 2019NEW ARTICLE: Effecting cultural change from below? A comparison of Cape Town and Bandung’s pathways to urban cultural governance
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Gareth Haysom May 8, 2018“Measurement drives diagnosis and response”: Gaps in transferring food security assessment to the urban scale
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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