URBAN STORIES (English) – Documenting everyday life in Tanzania – Water and Sanitation from Eric Schaechter on Vimeo. To ignore informal service provision in Tanzanian cities is to miss an opportunity. Informal water and sanitation providers, featured in this film by an ARDHI University research team, have devised innovative ways to overcome service delivery backlogs. […]
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
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.
A brief video from visiting scholar Lindsay Sawyer and her research on urban Lagos for the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore.
Africa is not a country!!! This 10 minute remix film acts as a teaser of some concepts and ideas for an upcoming film and exhibition project ACC/Cityscapes will undertake between 2017-19. In Context will explore the true nature and complexity of life in cities across the continent of Africa.
What decisions are residents in the poorer parts of South African cities forced to make on a day to day basis? How does a city like Ekhuruleni try to address this and what do the citizens think about these efforts? This short film juxtaposes these two voices. It was part of a series we developed […]
This short film was produced by Cityscapes | ACC as part of a project on Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Council to understand the state of various aspects of that city – one of the largest metro areas in South Africa. This is 1 of 4 short films in this series, produced in collaboration with filmmaker Kgomotso Matsunyane
A film essay about bushmen bboys, a flower kingdom and the ghost of a princess
“Prosperous low-carbon African cities are not just a good idea but a humanitarian prerogative, and in terms of climate change it’s globally significant and necessary if we’re all going to survive,” says ACC’s Anton Cartwright.
A video abstract of Situated Urban Political Ecology, a project looking at how African urbanism can inform Urban Political Ecology and the associated research methods, theory and practice to create a more situated.
In 2014, the Urban Violence CityLab collaborated with the Tafelsig People’s Association (TPA), First Community Research Centre (FCRC), UCT TV Studio and the UCT Centre for Film and Media Studies on an initiative that equipped four young people with basic film-making and media skills.
In 2014, the Urban Violence CityLab collaborated with the Tafelsig People’s Association (TPA), First Community Research Centre (FCRC), UCT TV Studio and the UCT Centre for Film and Media Studies on an initiative that equipped four young people with basic film-making and media skills.
What might South Africa be like in 2035? At a side event during COP17 in Durban in Dec 2011, hosted by the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), two sustainable economy experts, Anton Cartwright and the late Peet Du Plooy, were asked to imagine visiting the audience from 2035, to tell about what […]
This short film captures the key messages and debates emerging from the first Southern Africa Adaptation Colloquium, held in November 2013 and co-hosted by Mistra Urban Futures Cape Town platform’s Climate Change Think Tank, a partnership within the Knowledge Transfer Programme. Members of the partnership include The University of Cape Town’s African Climate and Development […]
The ACC hosted the third meeting of the Urban Violence, Safety and Governance CityLab on June 26, 2014. The meeting focussed on the theme, ‘Integrated, Participatory Upgrading – Knowledge, Policy and Practice.’
Xiangming Chen speaks to UrbanAfrica.net’s Brendon Bosworth about urbanisation in China & South Africa at the recent Starting from the South: perspectives on urbanisation in China and South Africa” workshop
1 of 10 short films made by Simon Taylor as part of the City Desired exhibition project, this short films provides a glimpse into the life of Christina Mtandana, a resident of Cape Town’s Sweet Home informal settlement. See more about City Desired here
In the Kapuchinski development lecture delivered at UCT on November 5, Aromar Revi of Indian Institute of Human Settlements made a compelling case for why the urban agenda needs to be at the heart of the millennium goals.
An interview with Susan Parnell, Executive Member of the African Centre for Cities and Co-Editor of ‘Africa’s Urban Revolution’, published by Zed Books. Sue discusses informal settlements, the effects of global environmental change & the true economic potential of Africa’s cities.
How cities can best implement effective decision-making processes within the context of climate change adaptation and high levels of informality
In this lecture for UNHabitat, Professor Edgar Pieterse puts forward the concept of the underlying logics of slum urbanism.
Warren Smit speaks about his work researching healthy cities at the 2011 Urban Age Conference in Hong Kong
This short video captures the key messages and debates emerging from the first Southern Africa Adaptation Colloquium, held in November 2013 and co-hosted by the African Centre for Cities’ Climate Change Think Tank
On December 5th, Africa Research Institute launched the latest edition of its Policy Voice series “For town and country: A new approach to urban planning in Kenya”. The event was opened by Vanessa Watson (University of Cape Town). The keynote address was given by the author of the publication: Peter Ngau (University of Nairobi)
A central issue for both South Africa and the broader African continent is the delivery of urban services and infrastructure to rapidly growing urban populations, enabling the urban residents to live and work in sustainable and integrated environments. The Master of Philosophy in Urban Infrastructure: Design and Management programme, presented for mid and late career […]
A speculative animated film featuring Anton Cartwright and the late Peet Duplooy imagines what path South Africa needs to take to become a successful and sustainable country by 2035. The video was prepared as part of the University of Cambridge’s Programme for Sustainability Leadership’s COP17 activities.
Professor Susan Parnell addresses ways of understanding the enormous changes to cities occurring in sub-saharan African countries. She reflects on how equipped we are to face the urban planning futures.
This lecture was delivered by Professor Manuel Castells during his visit to Cape Town in 2009.
Cities have long been connected with processes of bureaucratisation and state-building, as indeed they have long been linked to conflict and war. In bringing these two associations together we engaged with the historical sociology of Charles Tilly and research in the CAFS programme confirmed that the intersection of cities, states and violent conflict remains significant, […]
In this video, Susan Shaheen , Co-Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies’ Transportation Sustainability Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley talks about the future of urban mobility
Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogotá and one of the world’s most challenging urban thinkers, describes the urgent need for governments to create socially inclusive and well-designed transport systems
Africa is the fastest urbanising region in the world, and has become the focus of increasing attention from architects and planners, academics, development agencies and urban think-tanks.
Anton Cartwright, head of the Climate Change City Lab at the African Centre for Cities at UCT, speaking at the second “Melting Pot” colloquium at UCT in October 2012 titled “The Changing Climate of Risk: Four Perspectives on risk and climate change”.
Cities and Development, a lecture delivered by Manuel Castells at the University of Cape Town in 2009
Part 1 of 4. Professor Jo Beall on some of the findings from the Cities and Fragile States research project which she has led for the last 10 years.
Pippin Anderson discusses the impact of rapid urbanization on the ecological systems in Cape Town. These was delivered as part of the Potter Talks lecture series.
Lecture by Prof. Edgar Pieterse, University of Cape Town at the International workshop on ‘Changing socio-spatial configurations of inclusion and exclusion: planning and counter-planning in the African city’, 7-8 March 2012 Uppsala, Sweden
Professor Sue Parnell speaks to Robtel Neajai Pailey on understanding participation, complexity and governance in African cities. This video is part of the Governance in Africa Conversations Series. Professor Parnell is a founding member of the African Centre for Cities, has served the ACC on secondment, and sits on its Executive Committee.
