How do we build a fairer, healthier world for everyone? In a world that has forever been changed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and are in many ways looking to be rebuilt, this is precisely the question World Health Day 2021 prompts us to consider, writes Liezel M. Engelbrecht. (more…)
Understanding the Linkages Between Urban Food Systems and Non-Communicable Diseases in Namiba by researchers Ndeyapo Nickanor, Tobias Shinyemba and Lawrence Kazembe, is the fourth in a series of Nourishing Spaces working papers edited by Jane Battersby. (more…)
Food Systems and Diet-related Non-Communicable Diseases in Kisumu, Kenya by researchers Paul Otieno Opiyo and Stephen Gaya Agong, is the third in a series of Nourishing Spaces working papers edited by Jane Battersby. (more…)
Household Consumption Patterns and NCDs in Kisumu, Kenya by researchers Paul Otieno Opiyo and Stephen Gaya Agong, is the second in a series of Nourishing Spaces working papers edited by Jane Battersby. (more…)
Building on ACC’s continued work on urban food systems through projects such as The Hungry Cities Partnership, Consuming Urban Poverty, and Nourishing Spaces, The Nourished Child project explores the double burden of malnutrition in urban settings in the Western Cape, South Africa. The new project, funded by the UKRI’s Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Collective […]
Food Systems and Diet-Related NCDS in Cape Town, South Africa, by researcher Jo Hunter-Adams is the first in a series of Nourishing Spaces working papers edited by Jane Battersby. ABSTRACT The aim of this working paper is to offer insight into the lived experience of changing food systems and diet-related non-communicable disease (NCDs) in a […]
ACC’s Amy Weimann and Warren Smit, are co-authors along with Noxolo Kabane, Tracy Jooste, Anthony Hawkridge and Tolu Oni, of Health through human settlements: Investigating policymakers’ perceptions of human settlement action for population health improvement in urban South Africa published in Habitat International. ABSTRACT Informal settlements, characterised by inadequate living conditions and high disease burdens, […]
African Centre for Cities hosts a special seminar with ACC Honorary Professor AbdouMaliq Simone on Wednesday, 1 July from 14:00 to 15:30. The seminar is entitled Back on Maggie’s Farm, But Maggie Nowhere in Sight: the turbulent recalibration state and collective life. We are caught up in a maelstrom of anti-racist political surges and an […]
The Bartlett Development Planning Unit hosts series of webinars on post Covid-19 urban futures. Hosted by Haim Yacobi, the fourth seminar in the series look at the Covid-19 crisis and how it affected racially, ethnically and nationally contested cities and divided societies, with experts from Nicosia, Jerusalem, Belfast and Cape Town representing various perspectives. ACC’s […]
In this article urban scholars at the Dar es Salaam City Lab at the Institute for Human Settlements Studies and at the School of Architecture at Ardhi University reflect on how the covid-19 crisis magnifies a more enduring urban crisis in cities of the Global South. (more…)
Khayelitsha is one of the many townships in South Africa established as a racially segregated residential area under the apartheid regime. Like most areas established for “black Africans” during apartheid, it exists on the periphery of the city, some 39km from Cape Town’s centre. About 10 years ago, Khayelitsha represented the largest concentration of poverty […]
Next up in the ACC seminar series on the Sustainable Development Goals, Associate Professor Salome Maswime will present SDG indicators for health outcomes in South Africa on Wednesday, 18 September 2019 from 12:30 to 14:00. Maswime is Head of Global Surgery in the Surgery Division at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town. […]
What does obesity have to do with climate change? Quite a lot, according to an influential commission, which says the big food companies that make the junk food fuelling our expanding bodies are also destroying our environment — and need to be stopped. Humans have been getting steadily fatter over the past 30 years and […]
According to The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report obesity is still increasing in prevalence in almost all countries and is an important risk factor for poor health and mortality. (more…)
Join us for the an Urban Humanities academic seminar entitled Contextualising strategies to enable LGBT rights in Africa: legitimacies, spatial inequalities and socio-spatial relationships, by Dr Andrew Tucker on Thursday, 1 November 2018 at 15:00. ABSTRACT This paper explores the potential benefits of relationally considering the efficacy of radically different strategies to support LGBT rights in Africa. […]
The African Centre for Cities’ CityLab programme facilitates the co-production of policy-relevant knowledge to reduce urban poverty through the engagement of researchers, government officials and civil society. Started in 2008, the CityLab programme created a platform for interaction between practitioners and researchers and has generated a wide range of different kinds of knowledge on Cape […]
On Tuesday 11 August, the ACC and District Six Museum co-hosted a conversation between Bonita Bennett and Rike Sitas with clinical psychiatrist, Dr Mindy Thompson Fullilove. Dr Fullilove’s research into HIV/Aids in the US in the 1980s led to her interest in the psychology of place. Her subsequent research focused on urban planning and displacement, concerned with […]
Warren Smit speaks about his work researching healthy cities at the 2011 Urban Age Conference in Hong Kong
