Southern Africa
Active Projects
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Turning Livelihoods to Rubbish (TLR)
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Future Resilience for African Cities & Lands (FRACTAL)
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Integrated Urban Development Framework for SA
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Urban Infrastructure: Land Values, Housing & Transport
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Food Security
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The African Food Security Network
Archived Projects
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November 3, 2016Visualising the Future of Our Neighbourhoods
This film documents the “South African City Futures: Visualising the Futures of our Neighbourhoods” project undertaken in 2014. Part research and part radical co-creation, the project combined the use of futures thinking, multi-stakeholder dialogue, and multiple forms of visualisation to reflect upon the future of urban neighbourhoods to 2030
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Tau Tavengwa, Edgar Pieterse October 12, 2016Living Informally in South Africa
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Henrik Ernstson March 16, 2016Teaser: 1 Table 2 Elephants
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Anna Taylor, Zarina Patel May 22, 2015Adapting to a changing climate in Southern Africa
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April 11, 2014On Southern African Climate Adaptation
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Anton Cartwright November 22, 2013South Africa 2035
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Graeme Gotz September 30, 2013Bad Buildings
So called bad buildings in the Inner City of Johannesburg reflect the complex processes of city formation in Africa.
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Ricky Burdett August 21, 2013Living in the Endless City
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Caroline Skinner December 1, 2016Informal Sector Employment: Policy Reflectors
A presentation by Caroline Skinner for a policy conference convened by the Employment, Income Distribution and Inclusive Growth project in Pretoria on the 28 and 29th of November, 2016.
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Anton Cartwright November 13, 2015What does a ‘smart’ African city look like?
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Ian Palmer, Stephen Berrisford August 7, 2015African Urban Infrastructure Symposium
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Kim Gurney June 3, 2016Book Review: The Art of Public Space
Kim Gurney takes readers through Johannesburg via three arts projects. It is a journey that gives a unique insight into the potential of public art to fashion new public imaginaries of common space says LSE’s Kate Dawson. Read the full book review by Kate Dawson here.
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Caroline Skinner May 4, 2016Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia and Informality in SA
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Kim Gurney May 21, 2015The Art of Public Space: Curating and Re-imagining the Ephemeral City
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Philip Harrison, Alison Todes, Vanessa Watson November 7, 2013Planning and Transformation: Learning from the Post-Apartheid Experience
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Edgar Pieterse, Susan Parnell, David Simon, AbdouMaliq Simone October 7, 2013Urbanisation Imperatives for Africa: Transcending Policy Inertia
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September 27 @ 6:00 pmJHB launch of ‘August House is Dead, Long Live August House!’
Writer, artist and research associate at the University of Cape Town’s African Centre for Cities (ACC), Kim Gurney pens a new book on the evolving art space August House in Johannesburg. August House is Dead, Long Live August House! The Story of a Johannesburg Atelier, published by FourthWall Books, is a fascinating study of the role of […]
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October 6 @ 6:00 pmCT launch of ‘August House is Dead, Long Live August House!’
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November 13 - November 15Mistra Urban Futures Annual International Conference 2017
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February 1, 2018 @ 8:00 am - February 3, 2018 @ 5:00 pmAfrican Centre for Cities International Urban Conference 2018
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June 22, 2016Resilience in South Africa’s urban water landscape
What does resilience mean – or what should it mean – in Cape Town’s urban water sector?
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Kim Gurney June 3, 2016Book Review: The Art of Public Space
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Anton Cartwright November 13, 2015
What does a ‘smart’ African city look like?
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October 27, 2015Ray Pahl Urban Studies Fellowship 2016
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Anton Cartwright September 8, 2015
Better Growth, Better Cities: Rethinking and Redirecting Urbanisation in Africa
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Ian Palmer, Stephen Berrisford August 7, 2015
African Urban Infrastructure Symposium
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Caroline Skinner May 17, 2016Informal Migrant Entrepreneurship and Inclusive Growth in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique
While increasing attention is being paid to the drivers and forms of entrepreneurship in informal economies, much less of this policy and research focus is directed at understanding the links between mobility and informality. This report examines the current state of knowledge about this relationship with particular reference to three countries (Mozambique, South Africa and […]
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Caroline Skinner May 17, 2016City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors in Durban
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Anton Cartwright September 8, 2015
Better Growth, Better Cities: Rethinking and Redirecting Urbanisation in Africa
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Vanessa Watson June 10, 2015Changing Planning Education in Africa: The Role of the Association of African Planning Schools
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Anton Cartwright February 11, 2014State of city finances 2013
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Anton Cartwright February 11, 2014Economics of climate change adaptation at the local scale…