Public Seminars

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.

Updates

Presentation and discussion on the WesCape Development Proposal

May 15, 2013 — Cape Town

A JOINT AFRICAN CENTRE FOR CITIES (ACC), SOUTH AFRICAN PLANNING INSTITUTE AND CAPE INSTITUTE FOR ARCHITECTURE (CIA) EVENT Seeking to address the challenges of urbanisatio ...

Smart African Cityscapes: Evading the Hype

Sep 26, 2012 — Boston

Panel Session convened by the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, to be held at the World Summit on Innovation & Entrepreneurship ( ...

When Will They Be At Home? Massive Migration, Shallow Urbanization, and Unsettled City-Dwellers in China

Apr 17, 2012 — Cape Town

The history of urbanization is also the history of migration. These two interconnected processes constitute the two sides and ends of the movement of people across the rural-urban divide. Overwhelming ...

World Bank Perspectives on Emerging Urban Issues

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 ...

How Cities Learn…Lessons for South Africa - An Interactive Video Seminar from the World Bank Institute

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 ...

URBAN DESIGN CONFERENCE: CONDITIONS AND PROJECTIONS CONDITIONS AND PROJECTIONS

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 ...