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  • Applied Urban Research, Academic Research, Association of African Planning Schools, Informal Economies

    Changing socio-spatial configurations of inclusion and exclusion: planning and counter-planning in the African city

    Dec 31, 2011

    The Nordic Africa Institute & African Centre for Cities 7-8 March 2012, Uppsala, Sweden Deadline for abstracts: 8 January 2012 Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are marked by high levels of harsh livi ...

  • Knowledge Networks, Public Discourse, SPECIAL EVENTS

    Urban Age Award 2012 launches

    Nov 26, 2011

    The African Centre for Cities has partnered with Deutsche Bank and LSE Cities to present the Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award 2012 to a project in Cape Town. The award is presented to a project that has ...

  • State of the Cities in Africa Project

    Convite para apresentar expressões de interesse para o Projecto Estado das Cidades na África

    Nov 4, 2011

    O Centro Africano para Cidades da Universidade da Cidade do Cabo solicita a apresentação de expressões de interesse (EdI) para a segunda ronda da série de Relatório Estado das ...

  • State of the Cities in Africa Project

    Invitation à soumettre vos expressions d'intérêt pour le projet sur l'Etat des Villes en Afrique

    Nov 2, 2011

    Le Centre africain pour les villes de l'Université du Cap appelle pour la seconde fois aux soumissions d'expressions d'intérêt pour la série de rapports sur l'E ...

  • State of the Cities in Africa Project

    Invitation to submit expressions of interest for the State of the Cities in Africa Project

    Nov 2, 2011

    The African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town invites the submission of expressions of interest (EoI) for the second round of the State of the Cities in Africa Report series funded by t ...

  • Academic Research, Food Security

    ACC Welcomes AFSUN Research Fellow

    Oct 25, 2011

    The ACC welcomes Dr Chileshe Leonard MULENGA, a  Research Fellow at the Institute of Economic and Social Research (formerly the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute for Social Research) of the University ...

  • Knowledge Networks, Teaching, Executive Courses

    Organising Local Development: ACC hosting IHS Training Course

    Oct 19, 2011

    In co-operation with the Cape Higher Education Consortium, the African Centre for Cities has been engaged by the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (Erasmus University, Rotterdam) to ...

  • Publishing, Public Discourse

    CityScapes Launches

    Sep 28, 2011

    A small event in Cape Town marked the launch of CityScapes Magazine, a new publishing initiative of the African Centre for Cities and some of our collaborators. Issue 1 of magazine will be available i ...

  • SPECIAL EVENTS

    Sanitation Summit Calls for Urgency in Adressing Poor Services

    Sep 15, 2011

    The Social Justice Coalition (SJC), a Cape Town based advocacy group, held the inaugural Cape Town Sanitation Summit on 15 September in Woodstock, Cape Town. The summit presented an opportunity for NG ...

  • Publishing, Public Discourse, SPECIAL EVENTS

    ACC at the Open Book Festival

    Sep 13, 2011

    We are proud to announce our collaboration with the Open Book Festival, an annual literary festival, the first of which is happening from the 21st to the 25th September 2011 around Cape Town. The Afri ...

  • Knowledge Networks, 2011 SA City Studies Conference: University of Cape Town

    SA City Studies Conference 2011 Final Programme

    Sep 2, 2011

    Sacsc2011-programme The penultimate version of the final programme for the South African City Studies Conference is available for download on the link above. The defintive print version of the speaker ...

  • Academic Research, African Urbanism Initiative, Publishing

    Iolanda Pensa Reviews the African Cities Reader II for Domus

    Aug 30, 2011

    The "saboteur" approach adopted as a strategy by Edgar Pieterse and Ntone Edjabe in curating the African Cities Reader II: Mobilities & Fixtures and the mixture of different narrative genres has ...