-
Issue 2 of Cityscapes launched
May 13, 2012The second issue of Cityscapes, our biannual magazine/jounal hybrid on urbanism in the global south was launched at a well attended event hosted by the African Centre for Cities and the Book Lounge. m ...
-
The Science of Identifying What Works
The Science of Identifying What Works
May 24, 2012 — Cape Town
J-PAL Africa is a new research programme within the UCT School of Economics that specializes in identifying the impact of social programmes. In this presentation we will discuss the motivation for rig ...
-
The Colony and Urban Reform
The Colony and Urban Reform
May 2, 2012 — Cape Town
Margo Huxley will lead a discussion on her paper which examines debates from the early part of the 19th century, in which the problem of 'superfluous labouring population' and its remedies w ...
-
Mothers Unite wins DBUAAward
Apr 24, 2012Mothers United, based in Lavender Hill, Cape Town; was declared the winner of the Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award 2012 at a ceremony held on April 19th at the Cape Town Civic Centre. The DBUAAward ...
-
The 'Name your Hood' Campaign
The 'Name your Hood' Campaign
Apr 25, 2012 — Cape Town
Bruce Good speaks about his interactive, public campaign to unearth creative and significant neighbourhood names in South Africa. The campaign was launched in Cape Town in 2011, hoping to ignite commu ...
-
Whose innovative urban project will win the Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award 2012?
Apr 9, 2012The ACC has partnered with Deutsche Bank's Alfred Herrhausen Society and LSE Cities to present the Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award 2012 (and R750 000 in prize money) to a project in Cape Town. The ...
-
First Phd Workshop for 2012 held
Apr 9, 2012The first of ACC's Phd workshops for 2012 was held on February 28. The workshop was dedicated to the demystification of the PhD process, with a specific focus on methodology and the craft of writ ...
-
Summer School 2012
Apr 9, 2012For the second year, ACC contributed on 23-25 January 2012 to the UCT Summer School, with a three-lecture course coordinated by ACC Deputy Director Gordon Pirie. The course focused on urban sustainabi ...
-
Urban immoralities, violence and claims for justice: the significance of gender in urban studies
Urban immoralities, violence and claims for justice: the significance of gender in urban studies
Apr 4, 2012 — Cape Town
This paper illustrates the on-going importance of theorising gender within analyses of urban injustice. It tells the story of two 'immoral' urban injustices, infant rape and (a common/possib ...
-
ACC PhD Workshop 2012
ACC PhD Workshop 2012
Feb 28, 2012 — Cape Town
The purpose of the workshop is to demystify the PhD process through the recent experiences of Post-Doctoral candidates who work in the urban field. Furthermore, we will touch on the thinking of the le ...
-
How Cities Learn…Lessons for South Africa - An Interactive Video Seminar from the World Bank Institute
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 ...
-
From South African Survivalism to Somalian Entrepreneurship: the Transformation of the Spaza Sector in Cape Town's Informal Economy
From South African Survivalism to Somalian Entrepreneurship: the Transformation of the Spaza Sector in Cape Town's Informal Economy
Feb 15, 2012 — Cape Town
Small, home-based grocery stores, known as spaza shops, are ubiquitous throughout the township areas of urban South Africa and, as this project demonstrates, constitute the single most common business ...