Resources

  • South African History Online

    A digital archive of South African history and stories

  • South Africa: lessons from India

    How has South Africa's national policy and planning come to terms with the implications of this demographic and social-cultural transition? Aromar Revi, Director of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements weighs in.

  • Oxfam

    Resources from researchers, policy-makers, journalists, and other professionals.

  • The Crisis States Research Centre (CSRC)

    The Crisis States Research Centre (CSRC) is a leading centre of interdisciplinary research into processes of war, state collapse and reconstruction in fragile states

  • Alternatives Routes to Urban Densification

    This website is dedicated to identifying and exploring alternatives that can work for the hundreds of millions currently living without adequate urban homes, and for the hundreds of millions more who join the urban population every decade. The studies presented here, of urban density in Karachi, Pakistan, are the first step in this exploration.

  • On the road with AAPS

    A blog by Nancy Odendaal, Project Coordinator of the The Association of African Planning Schools (AAPS) This blog is a record of her travels accross the continent, visiting member institutions of the AAPS. She shares insights on planning education on the continent and other impressions.

  • Stockholm Resilience Centre

    The Stockholm Resilience Centre is an international centre that advances transdisciplinary research for governance of social-ecological systems with a special emphasis on resilience - the ability to deal with change and continue to develop.

  • SDI

    Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI) is a transnational network of local slum dweller organizations who have come together at the city and national level to form federations of the urban poor.

  • CUBES

    The Centre for Urbanism and Built Environment Studies (CUBES) is the base for Wits University's strategic research theme on CITIES. CUBES is hosted by the Schools of Architecture and Planning, and Construction Economics and Management,

  • Africa Centre

    Based in South Africa, the Africa Centre is both a physical entity and an ongoing philosophical process. It is meant to grow spatially and conceptually over a period of several years, in time it will emerge as a multi-sited, multiple-usage space where the visual, intellectual and performance cultures of Africa, South and North are celebrated, studied and brought to life for diverse audiences in innovative ways.

  • Sustainability Institute

    The Sustainability Institute is a non-profit trust, founded in 1999. The institute work in areas of Community Development Practice and Management, project facilitation to establish Sustainable Neighbourhood Developments in various localities,policy research in the sustainable development sector.

  • Cape Town Partnership

    The Cape Town Partnership is a collaboration between the public and private sectors working together to develop, promote and manage Cape Town Central City.