Southern Africa
Active Projects
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Cities of Integrity: urban planning and corruption in Africa
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Co-producing urban knowledge in Angola and Mozambique through community-led data collection: towards meeting SDG 11
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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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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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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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Vanessa Watson November 7, 2013Planning and Transformation: Learning from the Post-Apartheid Experience
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Edgar Pieterse, Susan Parnell, AbdouMaliq Simone October 7, 2013Urbanisation Imperatives for Africa: Transcending Policy Inertia
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January 13 - January 17The coloniality of infrastructure: Eurafrican legacies
NOTE: Conference has been rescheduled for 13 to 17 January 2021. When Eurafrica emerged in the 1920s as an intellectual and political project to connect Europe with Africa, its goal was to ensure European colonial dominance in a changing world. Key to the proposed continental merger was infrastructure—not surprising at a time when railways, ports, […]
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October 22, 2020A view from the inside
Former municipal officials dissect issues of corruption and integrity in South African urban development processes in roundtable discussion hosted by the Cities of Integrity project. In this article Christian Alexander summarises the key takeouts from the discussion. It was not the latest Eskom revelation or COVID-19 relief scandal discussed at a virtual roundtable panel discussion […]
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January 17, 2020Call for contributions: Fifth Southern African City Studies Conference
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December 5, 2019Qualitative Action Experiment tackles professional integrity in the Zambian planning sector
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August 28, 2019Cities of Integrity project launch in Zambia
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Sylvia Croese April 2, 2019LIRA Annual Research Forum
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June 22, 2016Resilience in South Africa’s urban water landscape
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Liza Rose Cirolia September 22, 2020Fractured fiscal authority and fragmented infrastructures: Financing sustainable urban development in Sub-Saharan Africa
ACC senior researcher Liza Rose Cirolia has published a new paper in Habitat International entitled Fractured fiscal authority and fragmented infrastructures: Financing sustainable urban development in Sub-Saharan Africa. ABSTRACT The current global development agendas provide relatively little guidance on how the incredible challenge of sustainable urban development in Africa can and should be financed. This […]
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September 3, 2020Rethinking training: the role of the informal sector in skills acquisition and development in Zimbabwe
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Caroline Skinner May 17, 2016Informal Migrant Entrepreneurship and Inclusive Growth in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique
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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