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Culture and Safety in Africa: Developing a Methodology Guide
Jun 15, 2012The workshop Culture and Safety in Africa: Developing a Methodology Guide, which was held in Switzerland between the 10th and 14th March 2012, focused on the creation of a research methodology for Mob ...
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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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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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SA City Studies Conference 2011 Final Programme
Sep 2, 2011Sacsc2011-programme The penultimate version of the final programme for the South African City Studies Conference is available for download on the link above. The defintive print version of the speaker ...
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South African City Studies Conference - An ACC/CUBES Initiative
South African City Studies Conference - An ACC/CUBES Initiative
Sep 7–9, 2011 — Cape Town
The second South African City Studies Conference, organised by the African Centre for Cities in conjunction with Wits University's CUBES, will be held from 7 to 9 September at the University of C ...
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Getting to the root of unsustainability: understanding decision-making dynamics at the rural-urban fringe.
Getting to the root of unsustainability: understanding decision-making dynamics at the rural-urban fringe.
Jul 28, 2011 — Cape Town
The world's population more than doubled in the last half of the 20th century to reach 6 billion in late 1999, and is expected to rise to a total of 9.1 billion in 2050 with much of the growth ta ...
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Steven Robins: How shit became "political": the case of the anti-dignity toilet, South Africa, 2011
Steven Robins: How shit became "political": the case of the anti-dignity toilet, South Africa, 2011
Aug 4, 2011 — Cape Town
In this seminar, Professor Steven Robins of the University of Stellenbosch's Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology discusses the challenges that activists, journalists and writers confr ...
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Dr Glyn Williams on political marginalisation in Kerala, India & Sarah Charlton on the imperfections of RDP housing in South Africa
Dr Glyn Williams on political marginalisation in Kerala, India & Sarah Charlton on the imperfections of RDP housing in South Africa
Jun 28, 2011 — Cape Town
Dr Glyn Williams (Sheffield University): Decentralisation and the Changing Geographies of Political Marginalisation in Kerala, India 'Moving' the state closer to people--in the form of democ ...
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