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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December 9, 2020Teasing out the complexities of densification policy and processes
Providing an in-depth exploration of the complexities of densification policy and processes, Densifying the City? brings the important experiences of densification in Johannesburg into conversation with a range of cities in Africa, the BRICS countries and the Global North. Edited by Margot Rubin, Alison Todes, Philip Harrison and Alexandra Appelbaum, School of Architecture and Planning, […]
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July 3, 2018The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South
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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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Edgar Pieterse, Tau Tavengwa April 29, 2021The City Show: Complex Cities, Compelling Stories
A new Cityscapes Magazine podcast series featuring stories that explore the complexities of life and the impact of dynamic change in contemporary cities, from a global South perspective The City Show, presented by Tau Tavengwa, of Cityscapes Magazine and Dhashen Moodley, a veteran of South African public radio, launches on 4 May 2021. A massive […]
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December 9, 2020Teasing out the complexities of densification policy and processes
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Anton Cartwright April 6, 2020IN THE PRESS: Future Cities Interview with Anton Cartwright
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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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Andrew Tucker, Neil R. Hassan May 11, 2020Situating sexuality: An interconnecting research agenda in the urban global south
Andrew Tucker and Neil R. Hasan have published a new paper entitled Situating sexuality: An interconnecting research agenda in the urban global south in GeoForum, volume 109, February 2020. Abstract Significant opportunities exist to connect more directly sexuality research to urbanisation research in the global South. This article considers such connections in relation to the […]
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Liza Rose Cirolia May 11, 2020Incremental housing as a node for intersecting flows of city-making: rethinking the housing shortage in the global South
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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?
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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