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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November 19 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pmRelaunch: Cityscapes Magazine
African Centre for Cities invites you to the relaunch of Cityscapes Magazine on 19 November 2019, 17:30 at The Book Lounge. The new issue is themed ‘Passages’ is a collection of stories that explore the nature(s) of movement, the impact it has on how we live and who we are, as well as the lives […]
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December 10 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pmContested Knowledges for Just Urban Futures
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September 30, 2019SDG indicators for health outcomes in South Africa
On 18 September, Prof Salome Maswime, Associate Professor, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and Head of Global Surgery at the University of Cape Town (UCT), presented a talk on SDG indicators for health outcomes in South Africa. The seminar, this time hosted collaboratively by the African Centre for Cities with the Department of Medicine of the Faculty […]
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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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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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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, 2019
NEW 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