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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Urban Age Award 2012 launches
Nov 26, 2011The African Centre for Cities has partnered with Deutsche Bank and LSE Cities to present the Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award 2012 to a project in Cape Town. The award is presented to a project that has ...
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UCT Summer School 2012: Sustaining Cape Town
UCT Summer School 2012: Sustaining Cape Town
Jan 23–25, 2012 — Cape Town
The popular press often projects the idea that urbanisation in Cape Town is out of control and is the cause of many of the ills the city faces. In this UCT Summer School 2012 three-lecture course, urb ...
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Marianne Millstein: The politics of participation and citizenship in South Africa's housing development: Experiences from Delft, Cape Town.
Marianne Millstein: The politics of participation and citizenship in South Africa's housing development: Experiences from Delft, Cape Town.
Nov 30, 2011 — Cape Town
In this seminar, Marianne Millstein presents her paper on The politics of participation and citizenship in South Africa's housing development: Experiences from Delft, Cape Town. The paper explore ...
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Market domination, small businesses and alcohol consumption in South Africa in the second half of the twentieth century
Market domination, small businesses and alcohol consumption in South Africa in the second half of the twentieth century
Nov 10, 2011 — Cape Town
Professor Mager's seminar will draw from her recently published monograph Beer, Sociability, and Masculinity in South Africa (Indiana University Press, 2010). Beginning where stories of colonial ...
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Ricky Burdett on Living in the Endless City
Ricky Burdett on Living in the Endless City
Ricky Burdett, director of LSE Cities and co-editor of the volume Living in the endless City, speaks about the 500-page tour de force at the Open Book Festival 2011 in Cape Town.
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All about CityScapes
All about CityScapes
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 ...
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Sanitation Summit Calls for Urgency in Adressing Poor Services
Sep 15, 2011The Social Justice Coalition (SJC), a Cape Town based advocacy group, held the inaugural Cape Town Sanitation Summit on 15 September in Woodstock, Cape Town. The summit presented an opportunity for NG ...
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Professor Marie Kennedy: Transformative Planning for Community Development
Professor Marie Kennedy: Transformative Planning for Community Development
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 ...
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Professor Ricky Burdett - Director, LSE Cities on "Living in the Endless City"
Professor Ricky Burdett - Director, LSE Cities on "Living in the Endless City"
Sep 21, 2011 — Cape Town
In this ACC public lecture Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and Director of LSE Cities and the Urban Age programme, will speak o ...