News

  • Applied Urban Research, Knowledge Networks, Academic Research, Teaching

    New Faces

    Aug 31, 2010

    The ACC welcomes 5 new staff members who have recently joined the organisation. Godfrey Tawodzera joins our Food Security program; Anton Cartwright is the new Climate Change Citylab Cordinator; ...

  • Applied Urban Research, Academic Research, Publishing

    Editor-in-Chief for State of Cities project sought

    Aug 30, 2010

    The African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town is seeking to appoint a senior urban practitioner/scholar with responsibility for the editorship of a series of State of the Cities ...

  • NOTICE: SITE UPDATE

    Aug 12, 2010

    Please note that the ACC website is currently going through a major update. As a result, certain aspects of the site are not working as they should be. This process will be completed by the 20th ...

  • Vacancy: ACC Deputy Director

    Jul 13, 2010

    DEPUTY DIRECTOR IN THE AFRICAN CENTRE FOR CITIES (at Professor/Associate Professor level) School of Architecture, Planning & Geomatics Faculty of Engineering & The Built Environment The ...

  • Knowledge Networks

    Wanted: New Director of MISTRA Urban Futures

    Jun 21, 2010

    Mistra Urban Futures are looking for a new Director. See ad here or visit www.mistraurbanfutures.se for more info.

  • Applied Urban Research, City Labs, Climate Change

    Climate Change "Think Tank" meets

    Jun 21, 2010

    The third meeting of the City of Cape Town Climate Change "Think Tank" was held at the Civic Centre on the 20th of May. The Think Tank was established with funding from the Royal Danish Embassy to ...

  • Informal Economies

    WIEGO's 5th General Assembly

    May 21, 2010

    The global research policy network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) held their fifth General Assembly in Belo Horizonte in Brazil.  The ACC hosts WIEGO's ...

  • Knowledge Networks, Association of African Planning Schools

    AAPS Workshop held

    May 21, 2010

    The second instalment of the AAPS Case Study Research and Publication workshop series was held in Johannesburg from 28 April to 1 May 2010. This followed the widespread acclaim granted to the first ...

  • Applied Urban Research, Publishing

    Counter-Currents Book Launch and Exhibition opening

    Apr 1, 2010

    We are proud to announce the launch of Counter-Currents: Experiments in Sustainability in the Cape Region, a book project by the African Centre for Cities, on the 6th April 2010 at the Cape Institute ...