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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September 26 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pmBeyond our borders: Independent art spaces as a lens on city futures
Four leading shapers of the contemporary art world from cutting-edge independent spaces on the African continent will next week share their insights and experience in a public panel hosted in central Cape Town. The panellists, who respectively manage or help direct programming for multidisciplinary contemporary art spaces in Addis Ababa, Cairo, Dar es Salaam and […]
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October 17 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pmFinancing infrastructure in cities of the global South
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August 28, 2019BLOG: Settling into ACC – MPhil Southern Urbanism
Housed at the most elevated part of the mountainous University of Cape Town upper campus, the African Centre for Cities (ACC) runs an exciting MPhil in Urban Studies programme to develop urban scholars that can take on the complex challenges of rapidly urbanising cities of the global south. From its vantage point, the ACC’s call […]
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January 31, 2019IN THE PRESS: Romantic visions of pastoral Africa won’t solve urban food insecurity
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January 14, 2019IN THE PRESS: ‘Highly processed food is a form of pollution’
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Sophie Oldfield, Laura Nkula-Wenz January 7, 2019Urban Immersions
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Rike Sitas, Shari Daya August 2, 2018Call for abstracts: Representing urban life in Africa and its diasporas
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Susan Parnell July 30, 2018In the Press: Sustainable cities depend on collective responsibility and action
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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
Laura Nkula-Wenz and Zayd Minty examine how different cultural policy approaches have been locally mobilized and reworked in Bandung and Cape Town in response to situated realities and in partnerships between cultural, academic, business and local government actors, in this article for Cultural Trends. ABSTRACT This article compares the cultural governance pathways of two UNESCO […]
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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
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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