The New York Times has described Amanda Burden, Chair of the New York City planning Commission, as “…leaving an indelible legacy of how all five boroughs will look and feel for decades to come”. In the last 10 years she has steered development in New York in a path that emphasises design, sustainability and zoning and has overseen various programmes and projects that have transformed the city. Here, she shares her insights into some of those initiatives.
Ntombini Marrengane, State of the Cities in Africa Project Coordinator at the ACC, talks to Junaid Ahmad during a recent meeting in Cape Town
In this video, Susan Shaheen , Co-Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies’ Transportation Sustainability Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley talks about the future of urban mobility
ACC CityLab Researchers Liza Cirolia and Mercy Brown Luthango will participate in the IBSA Working Group on Human Settlements convened by South African Cities Network on behalf of the Department of Human Settlements. IBSA is a trilateral arrangement between India, Brazil and South Africa aimed at promoting South-South Cooperation and exchange.
The Fellowship, to be held in the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) will ideally be for the entire calendar year 2014. The starting date may be changed in exceptional cases to accommodate personal circumstances.
Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogotá and one of the world’s most challenging urban thinkers, describes the urgent need for governments to create socially inclusive and well-designed transport systems
Africa is the fastest urbanising region in the world, and has become the focus of increasing attention from architects and planners, academics, development agencies and urban think-tanks.
In thinking about the capital financing of municipal infrastructure it is important to sub-divide municipalities into groups as there is such a range of socio-geographic circumstances occurring in South Africa,
Millions of people in African cities are tenants.
The emergence of community organizations of the poor in Africa has been a very important de- velopment during the past two decades.
Matthew Krause of the groundbreaking Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading, a Khayelitsha based project that has been credited with contributing to crime prevention and community wellness.
The two extreme outcomes of current shelter systems that are being witnessed today are affordable shelter that is inadequate, and adequate shelter that is unaffordable.
Despite decades of work by housing and human rights organizations, NGOs, multilateral insti- tutions and community organizations, the eviction of poor households and poor communities is increasing in African cities, causing displacement, misery and impoverishment for millions of urban citizens.
Anton Cartwright, head of the Climate Change City Lab at the African Centre for Cities at UCT, speaking at the second “Melting Pot” colloquium at UCT in October 2012 titled “The Changing Climate of Risk: Four Perspectives on risk and climate change”.
Emerging from the inability, at COP15 (Copenhagen), of nation states and multi- national agencies to agree on a long-term commitment to tackling climate change and managing its consequences, there has been a renewed focus on local and self-styled responses to the challenges
