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 28, 2017New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times
Polity Books has just published New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times by AbdouMaliq Simone and Edgar Pieterse, which explores the emerging epicentres of global urbanisation. (more…)
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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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Prof. Jo Beall, Sean Fox October 7, 2013Cities and Development
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Sean O' Toole February 21, 2018New turns in urban thinking from the south
In his keynote address at the recent International Urban Conference, hosted by the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town (UCT), visiting Indian scholar Gautam Bhan spoke of a “southern turn in urban studies”. Over the course of the next three days this discursive shift formed a repeated point of deliberation […]
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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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February 3, 2018Reflections on 10 years of the ACC: Four Vignettes
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Susan Parnell November 8, 2017In the press: National urban policies are about seeing cities as core to the collective good
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Caroline Skinner December 1, 2016Environment and Urbanization Special Issue on Urban Livelihoods
Caroline Skinner was the lead editor for the October 2016 Environment and Urbanization Special Issue on Urban Livelihoods. The launch of the issue coincided with the recent Habitat III in Quito, Ecuador.
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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
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Susan Parnell January 28, 2015Second Urban Sustainable Development Goal Campaign Consultation on Targets and Indicators
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Edgar Pieterse February 16, 2014Epistemological Practices of Southern Urbanism