Public lectures by emminent scholars and other academics on areas of interest to the ACC

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Oct
6

Melissa Steyn, The City's Other: Small Towns in post-apartheid South Africa

Rm 2.27, Davies Room, Engeo Building, Upper Campus, UCT, Cape Town

Melissa Steyn, is the Sociology and Director of Intercultural and Diversity Studies, University of Cape Town

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Aug
5

Mark Swiling: Rethinking Urbanism (Just Transitions: Explorations of Sustainability in an Unfair World)

Rm 2.27, Davies Room, Engeo Building, Upper Campus, UCT, Cape Town

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Sep
1

Caroline Skinner: Challenging City Imaginaries: Street Trader Struggles in Warwick Junction, Durban

Seminar Room 1, ENGEO Building, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town, Cape Town

Statistics demonstrate that the majority of urban dwellers survive through working in the informal economy.  Yet there is wide recognition both in policy and academic arenas (UN Habitat, 2009; ...

India's Urban Transformation: From Challenge to Opportunity

India's Urban Transformation: From Challenge to Opportunity

Professor Aromar Revi, Director of the Indian Institute of Human Settlement on India's Urban future.
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May
10

Aromar Revi: India's Urban Transformation: from Challenge to Opportunity

Cape Institute for Architecture, 71 Hout Street (Park at Heritage Square, Cape Town

Aromar Revi is an international consultant, practitioner and researcher with nearly twenty five years of inter-disciplinary experience in public policy, governance, institutional development, as well ...

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Mar
15

Green Jobs and the Next Economy ‑ Pipe Dream or a Reality?

Moot Court, Kramer Law Building, Middle Campus UCT, Cape Town

The Department of Public Law on behalf of the Climate Change Governance Collaboration (comprising DGRU, African Centre for Cities, Centre for Criminology, Dept of Economics and the Energy Research ...