As part of the public information role of the ACC, regular public debates and seminars are organised to facilitate an engagement between ordinary citizens, scholars, civil society activists and public officials on pertinent issues that affect the nature and prospects of (African) cities.
Feb 17, 2012 — Cape Town
In this talk, Urban Practice Manager at the World Bank Institute Christine Kessides will focus on the World Bank urban strategy of active management of cities through an integrated national ...
Feb 16, 2012 — Cape Town
While the policy environment in support of urbanisation, housing, municipal finance, decentralisation, land use planning, and environmental controls in South Africa are generally well articulated, Sou ...
Feb 3–4, 2012 — Cambridge
The contemporary conditions that are shaping the built environment globally are of an unprecedented scale and complexity creating the need for a critical evaluation of the methods, tools, and the broa ...
Feb 1, 2012 — Cape Town
In 1994, the South African Government embarked on a highly ambitious housing initiative, promising to build one million houses for a target market that comprised about 84% of its population, within a ...
In this discussion, held as part of the Open Book Festival 2011 in Cape Town, Edgar Pieterse, Tau Tavengwa and Sean O'Toole talk about the CityScapes project. Go here to get more info about CityS ...
Oct 13, 2011 — Cape Town
Drawing from her extensive work in community planning education and practice, Professor Kennedy will focus her talk on what she terms "transformative community planning", a term she uses to highlight ...
