Publications - African Centre for Cities

URBANIZATION IMPERATIVES FOR AFRICA: TRANSCENDING IMPASSES

Susan Parnell, Edgar Pieterse, David Simon, AbdouMaliq Simone

Urbanization in Africa is real. Most political and policy leaders remain in denial about its centrality and urgency. Urbanization in Africa represents the most complex and intractable policy ...

Counter-Currents: Experiments in Sustainability in the Cape Town Region

Edgar Pieterse

Available from March 2010: Cape Town is undergoing a growth spurt driven along by both public and private sector investments. In the process a new city is being fashioned in front of our eyes but ...

Working in Warwick

Richard Dobson, Caroline Skinner

Working in Warwick offers a fresh look at street traders' lives, the role they play in city life and their contribution to its economy; and shows that it is possible to include street ...

Planning and Transformation: Learning from the Post-Apartheid Experience

Philip Harrison, Alison Todes, Vanessa Watson

In the years after the 1994 transition to democracy in South Africa, planners were convinced that they would be able to successfully promote a vision of integrated, equitable and sustainable cities, ...

City Life from Jakarta to Dakar

AbdouMaliq Simone

City Life from Jakarta to Dakar examines the potentials of urban life through reflections on cities in Africa and Southeast Asia. It shows how much of what is considered peripheral to urban life is ...

City Futures: Confronting the Crisis of Urban Development

Edgar Pieterse

This book is a powerful indictment of the current consensus on how to cope with the hundreds of "mega-cities" of the developing world. These cities are the future, and the problems surrounding this ...

Cities and Development

Jo Beall, Sean Fox

Cities and Development brings into conversation debates from urban and development studies. It grapples with both the challenges and opportunities associated with rapid urban change and ...

African Cities Reader

Discourses on urban development tend to dehumanise ordinary Africans by stripping them of the ingenuity it takes to simply survive and reproduce a sense of identity, community, belonging and ...