Anton Cartwright, Joanne Yawitch, Damane Hlalele, Jak Koseff and Christina Culwick recently participated in a panel discussion discussing some of the key themes covered in the “Better Growth, Better Cities: Rethinking and Redirecting Urbanisation in Africa” report…
We are proud to announce the publication of: Better Growth, Better Cities: Rethinking and Redirecting Urbanisation in Africa, by Anton Cartwright.
Professor Edgar Pieterse, recently spoke about the current policy landscape for urbanism, the majority and elite city, and re-imagining the township as city at the Policy Workshop on Spatial Inequality
Applications are now open for the 2016 Ray Pahl Research Fellowship. The Fellowship is open to post-doctoral scholars with research interests in African cities. We are particularly looking for African scholars residing in and working on the continent who wish to further their research for a 12 month period as part of the ACC.
Three Preliminary Reports are available as part of the Inception Phase of the research project “Urban infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa – harnessing land values”
The ACC invites applications for one postdoctoral fellowship to undertake research in an ESRC/DFID-funded project focusing on Urban Poverty and Food Systems in secondary cities in sub-Saharan Africa. The three case study cities are Kitwe, Epworth and Kisumu.
The African Centre for Cities will host a new R12m, five-year international comparative multi-city inquiry research programme focusing on youth entrepreneurship in the informal food economy; competition and inclusive growth in the urban food economy; reshaping informal food systems through inclusive growth; rapid urbanisation, food insecurity and inclusive growth.
The ACC is leading a three-year research project about governing food systems to alleviate poverty in secondary cities in Africa.
The ACC is part of a new international programme of interdisciplinary research which aims to reduce disaster risk in urban sub-Saharan Africa. UrbanARK links African and international experts in hazards and climate modelling, social history, urban planning and governance, epidemiology and urban loss assessment.
