Reconstructing the Future: Cities as Carbon Sink, compiles the papers presented by world-renowned scientists, architects, spatial planners, activists, and policy makers at the Reconstructing the Future for People and Planet conference, held at the Vatican in June 2022.
“Climate Infrastructure & City Governments: A Strategic Framework For African City-Labs”, provides a framework to support the development of ‘city-labs’ in African cities.
This case report by Alicia Fortuin, as part of the Platform Politics and Silicon Savannah project, explores fintech and motorcycle platform services in Cape Town, South Africa.
This case report by Alexis Sebarenzi, as part of the Platform Politics and Silicon Savannahs project, explores fintech and paratransit in Kigali, Rwanda.
Case Report: Motorcycles, digital platforms and fintech integration in Nairobi, Kenya
Fintech and the platformed motorcycle: speculating on ordinary mobility economies in urban Africa
This report shares insights on how the use of motorcycles reconfigures urban mobility, governance and economies due to the introduction of platform-based systems and the rise in platformisation of on-demand logistics.
Charting Directions for—and Challenges at Being Able to Undertake—Future Research on African Urban Sexualities
Queer Infrastructures: Objects of and Orientations towards Urban Research Practice
African Urban Sexualities After Queer Visibilities
ACC Deputy Director Andrew Tucker has edited a special issued of Urban Forum under the banner of African Urban Sexualities after Queer Visibilities.
infra.africa is a new website which resulted from African Urban Futures, a research collaboration African between the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town and the Urban Futures Studio at Utrecht University.
Corruption in Urban Planning: A Guide for Professional and Trainee Planners is a guide developed in partnership with researchers at the African Centre for Cities, geared towards understanding and addressing the impact of corruption on Sub-Saharan cities.
Democracy and the Life of Cities examines and challenges the role of cities in generating and strengthening democratic practices as authoritarianism rises across much of the world.
In this country synthesis report, the PEAK Urban programme shares lessons from research in South Africa, with implications for global policy and practice.
