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SUMMARY:Cities and Climate Change: Seminar 1
DESCRIPTION:The first seminar in the academic seminar series on Cities and Climate Change reflects on the recent international conference on cities and climate change\, the first of its kind convened by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Through a panel discussion between representatives from the City of Cape Town\, the African Centre for Cities\, UCT’s Climate System Analysis Group and the African Climate and Development Initiative\, who all participated in the conference\, we will draw out key themes and debates surfacing within the climate change and cities field internationally\, as well as reflect on any notable silences or gaps. We will also share a snapshot of what inputs we offered to the international science and policy community concerned with cities and climate change. This will establish the main contours of the climate change and cities research space\, framing the three subsequent seminars in the series. \n  \nSPEAKERS \n\nVictor Indasi\, climate science post doc\, Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG)\nAmy Davison\, Head of Environmental Strategy Implementation\, City of Cape Town\nAlice McClure\, FRACTAL coordinator\, Climate System Analysis Group\nLorena Pasquini\, risk governance research fellow\, African Climate and Development Institute\n\nDISCUSSANT\nAnna Taylor\, urban geography post doc\, ACC & CSAG
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/cities-climate-change-seminar-1/
LOCATION:Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171128T200000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171128T220000
DTSTAMP:20260418T125949
CREATED:20171027T091204Z
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SUMMARY:Science and Cocktails: Can We Move Beyond the Divided City?
DESCRIPTION:Is urban segregation simply a fact of contemporary life? Are the shopping mall and gated community to blame for new forms of urban division? What role does the real estate market play in reproducing urban patterns? Is middle-class suburbia deracializing or not? \nDoes public investment in housing and social amenities worsen or improve urban divides? Do BRT systems help or hinder urban integration? Who\, if anyone\, can make a difference in altering spacial patterns of the city? \nIt is arguable that South African cities are more divided today compared to 1994. How can this be? Why are we seemingly unable to shift the contours of division and live differently? \nEdgar Pieterse will review the drivers of contemporary urban divides and explore the reasons why policy after policy since 1994 say the “right” things but achieve the opposite outcome. He will place his discussion in the context of the nature of both public and private investments into South African cities and illustrate the talk with data and policy experiments in Cape Town and Johannesburg. \nPieterse will conclude by putting forward what some of the preconditions for genuine urban transformation might be. \nDate: 28 November 2018 \nTime: Doors open at 18:30\, no admittance after 20:00. \nVenue: The Orbit\, Braamfontein\, Johannesburg \nEntrance to the event: R20. \nNo registration is necessary but guests are strongly encouraged to arrive early. Dinner is served from 18:00. Guests wishing to have dinner before the event should book in advance with The Orbit and arrive by 18:30. (Last orders for dinner at 19:15 to make it to the event). Directions to the venue.
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/science-cocktails-can-move-beyond-divided-city/
LOCATION:The Orbit\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171109T160000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171109T173000
DTSTAMP:20260418T125949
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SUMMARY:Soft Infrastructure: Recalibrating Aesthetics\, Economies\, And Urban Epistemologies
DESCRIPTION:The African Academy for Urban Diversity; a joint initiative of the African Centre for Migration & Society; the African Centre for Cities; and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity invites you to a special public lecture by Dr Mpho Matsipa (Wits City Institute\, University of the Witwatersrand\, Johannesburg). \nA city like Johannesburg offers a glimpse into how immigration\, black female sexuality and shifts in urban retail economies provide important economic and cultural resources to urban residents and users. By exploring black cultural practices\, like braiding\, as both ontology and epistemology\, the lecture will explore how such practices recalibrate local economies\, infrastructures\, and aesthetic codes\, and thus might co-constitute emergent urban identities and a way of knowing the city. The intimate\, networked\, and fractal nature of black hair braiding spaces disrupts the rigid colonial spatial orders of the city and its architecture. \nHowever\, can such soft infrastructures sufficiently disrupt the grand narrative of African cities in ‘crisis’\, while also disrupting colonial and colonizing cartographies of African urban environment? \nBiography \nDr Mpho Matsipa is a researcher at the Wits City Institute. After completing her professional degree in Architecture at the University of Cape Town\, with a distinction in design\, Mpho was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and later\, a Carnegie Grant as a graduate student at the University of California\, Berkeley. Her PhD in Architecture\, from the University of California\, Berkeley\, is titled The Order of Appearances explored the entangled geographies of urban informality\, urban redevelopment and the politics of race\, gender and aesthetics in Johannesburg’s inner city. Mpho has written critical essays and reviews on public art\, culture and space for Art South Africa\, the Architectural Review and Thesis 11 (forthcoming). \nMpho has worked as an architect and she has been shortlisted in two prestigious national design competitions. She has curated several exhibitions\, including of the South Africa Pavilion at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition\, Venice Biennale (2008).She has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture and associate research scholar at Columbia GSAPP and Curator of Studio-X Johannesburg –  an experimental public platform on architecture and the city sponsored by Columbia University. She is currently co-curating a pan-African architecture exhibition at the Architecture Museum in Munich titled “African Mobilities: This is not a Refugee Camp Exhibition”\, that will open in April 2018. \nFor more information and to RSVP: info@migration.org.za \nDate:    Thursday 9 November 2017 \nTime:    16:00 to 17:30 \nVenue:  Humanities Graduate Centre Seminar Room\, South West Engineering Building\, East Campus\, University of the Witwatersrand
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/soft-infrastructure-recalibrating-aesthetics-economies-urban-epistemologies/
LOCATION:Humanities Graduate Centre Seminar Room\, South West Engineering Building\, East Campus\, University of the Witwatersrand\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171024T160000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171024T173000
DTSTAMP:20260418T125949
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SUMMARY:Joining Forces for Change: Building Learning Alliances for Social and Environmental Justice in Urban Sierra Leone
DESCRIPTION:African Centre for Cities is hosting the Co-Directors of Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre\, and lecturers from Institute of Geography and Development Studies\, Njala University\, Sierra Leone Joseph Macarthy and Braima Koroma for a talk entitled Joining Forces for Change: Building Learning Alliances for Social and Environmental Justice in Urban Sierra Leone \nDate: 24 October 2017 \nTime: 16:00 \nVenue: The Pink Room\, Centlivres Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town \nABSTRACT \nLearning alliances are becoming increasingly popular as an important means for co-producing knowledge about urban areas. While the shift from partnering among community organisations and other development agencies (e.g. NGOs) to universities and research organisations holds the promise of revolutionising knowledge production and its reliability\, it also serve not only to improve understandings about poor and marginalised groups but also helps in building strong relationships between and among the different stakeholders. However\, promoting such strategic partnership involving the university\, local community residents and their groups\, development organisations\, civil society and private sector actors has frequently involved providing answers to such questions as: what counts as learning alliance\, what kinds of knowledge should be produced\, for who and with what capacities? \nWe will discuss these and other related questions by arguing that SLURC’s learning alliance initiative has provided a platform for opening up both lateral and vertical opportunities for bringing to the doorstep of city authorities\, the key concerns and aspirations of informal communities. By way of this discussion\, we hope to stimulate debates on learning alliance as well as draw attention to more appropriate ways to ensure inclusive\, equitable and sustainably just urban development; change the mindset of different urban actors towards community-driven development approaches; including\, how best to manage relationships between stakeholders in making decisions about the city. This session is particularly interested in reflecting on the role SLURC is playing in building the capacity of informal settlement dwellers and contributing to influencing policy and urban decision-making processes. In this session\, we hope to reflect on some of the main findings from recent projects (livelihoods and urban humanitarian response) and discuss about some of the challenges and opportunities in establishing partnership and managing learning alliances.
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/joining-forces-change-building-learning-alliances-social-environmental-justice-urban-sierra-leone/
LOCATION:Pink Room\, Centlivres Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170228T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170228T140000
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SUMMARY:Africa's Cities: Opening Doors to the World
DESCRIPTION:SPEAKER: Somik Lall\nDATE: 28 February 2017\nTIME: 13:00 – 14:00\nVENUE: Seminar Room (4th floor School of Economics) \nThe African Centre for Cities is pleased to be co-hosting this seminar with The School of Economics and the Cape Town Branch of the Economic Society of South Africa. Somik Lall\, a lead economist from the World Bank\, will be presenting on the new World Bank publication entitled\, ‘Africa’s Cities: Opening Doors to the World. \nSomik Lall is a Lead Economist for Urban Development in the World Bank’s Urban and Disaster Risk Management Department. His research and policy interests span urban and spatial economics\, infrastructure development\, and public finance\, with more than 40 publications featured in peer-reviewed journals\, edited volumes\, and working papers. \nCities in Sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing rapid population growth. Yet their economic growth has not kept pace. Why? Somik will present his thoughts on how urban policy plays a central role in making Africa’s cities economically competitive. \nLinks to the report and related materials: \n•     Report page: www.worldbank.org/africascities \n•     Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtT2RA4sDMA
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/africas-cities-opening-doors-world/
LOCATION:School of Economics Seminar Room\, 4th Floor School of Economics
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170208T150000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170208T163000
DTSTAMP:20260418T125949
CREATED:20170127T122857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T101906Z
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SUMMARY:Theorizing Urbanization: the Universal and the Particular in Question
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Cities is pleased to announce it’s first Special Lecture for 2017. We will be hosting Prof Kevin Cox\, who will be presenting a lecture on ‘Theorizing Urbanization: The Universal and the Particular in Question’. \nAbstract \nOver the last twenty-five years or so urban studies has witnessed increasing skepticism towards universalizing claims and a greater interest in the particularizing. Recent arguments for a view from the global South exemplify this. This raises the question of what the relationship between universalizing and particularizing tendencies might be. This is explored firstly through an exploration of how the two might be reconciled. Two case studies then follow. One focuses on the ‘view from the South’ controversy; and the other on the politics of urban development in the US and in Western Europe and a subsequent trans-Atlantic divide. \nBio \nKEVIN R. COX\, is Emeritus Distinguished University Professor of Geography at the Ohio State University. His major research interests include the politics of urban and regional development\, geographic thought and South Africa. He is the author of numerous books\, the most recent of which are The Politics of Urban and Regional Development and the American Exception (2016) and Making Human Geography (2014.) He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and the recipient of two awards from the Association of American Geographers\, including one for distinguished scholarship. More information can be found on his website\, Unfashionable Geographies\, at https://kevinrcox.wordpress.com/. \n 
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/theorizing-urbanization-beyond-binaries/
LOCATION:Studio 3\, ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20161128T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20161128T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T125949
CREATED:20161121T120002Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161121T120729Z
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SUMMARY:Resilient Urban Development: perspective of the Massive Small Collective
DESCRIPTION:In this Brown Bag\, Lauren Hermanus will introduce the work of the Massive Small Collective\, which seeks to make connections between small-scale urban sustainable development and resilience thinking. \nThe Massive Small Collective understands resilience as social\, economic and environmental sustainability under conditions of dynamic complexity. As individuals\, households\, businesses\, and governments are faced with increasing complexity\, and more frequent destructive shocks\, and new information and technologies\, the context and need for resilience planning and implementation is growing. The assertion of the Massive Small Collective\, is that top-down\, large-scale\, command and control strategies aimed to improve social well-being and manage ecological risks have not delivered the promised results. The collective believes that the ‘bigness’ of these projects is the source of their weakness. Local context and history are\, by necessity\, rendered marginal by end-state and solutions-focused wholesale reform. But we can now see that it has showed itself to be critical to long-term success. In response\, the Massive Small Collective focuses on incrementalism and redundancy\, dynamic interrelation\, local context\, learning from failure and responsive governance.  \nThis Brown Bag will introduce the potential of small-scale urban sustainable development initiatives and investments to contribute to the resilience agenda in cities and towns around the world. This work is done in partnership with the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition\, African partners of the Stockholm Resilience Centre.  \nAbout the Speaker: \nLauren Hermanus is has a BA in Politics\, Philosophy and Economics\, and a MA in Complexity Theory and Philosophy. She is currently enrolled in MPhil in Development Policy and Practice. She is a Sustainable Development Specialist focused on urban resilience and energy innovation. Her experience is in policy\, strategy and programme development in both the public and private sectors. She is interested in applying Complexity Thinking to development challenges. \nDate: 28th November \nTime: 1-2pm \nVenue: Davies Reading Room (library)\, EGS Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/5180/
LOCATION:African Centre for Cities\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags,Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160308T150000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160308T163000
DTSTAMP:20260418T125949
CREATED:20160223T080128Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160225T104621Z
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SUMMARY:Rethinking Sustainable Cities: from slogan to implementation
DESCRIPTION:ACC is excited to host representatives from Mistra Urban Futures who will be presenting on their forthcoming book entitled ‘Rethinking Sustainable Cities: from slogan to implementation’. \nOverview \nMistra Urban Futures’ forthcoming book provides detailed intellectual and practical histories of fair\, green and accessible cities – three key urban characteristics chosen to symbolise the research centre’s approach\, which utilises transdisciplinary co-production methodologies to promote sustainable urban solutions to specific local problems in each of its research platforms. These characteristics suffuse MUF’s work and Strategic Plan for 2016-19. David Simon will explain these agendas\, focusing particularly on the origins and current nature of urban greening discourses and the challenges to implementation to ensure that they make a substantive as opposed to purely marginal or incremental difference. Sue Parnell will do likewise in relation to fair cities. \nBios \nDavid Simon joined Mistra Urban Futures in September 2014 from Royal Holloway\, University of London\, where he still holds a part-time appointment as Professor of Development Geography. He was Head of theGeography Department there from 2008-11. He has vast international experience including grant-funded research on sub-Saharan Africa (especially Namibia\, South Africa\, Kenya and Ghana)\, Asia (especially Sri Lanka\, Thailand and the Philippines)\, the UK and the USA. He has also served as specialist advisor to UN-HABITAT on cities and climate change\, was one of only two academics on the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s specialist Africa Advisory Group prior to its disbandment\, and has consulted for various NGOs and national and international development agencies. Furthermore\, he is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences. \nSusan Parnell’s early academic research was in the area of urban historical geography and focussed on the rise of racial residential segregation and the impact of colonialism on urbanisation and town planning in Sub-Saharan Africa. Since 1994 and democracy in South Africa her work has shifted to contemporary urban policy research (local government\, poverty reduction and urban environmental justice). By its nature this research is not been purely academic\, but has involved liasing with local and national government and international donors. Sue is also on the boards of several local NGOs concerned with poverty alleviation\, sustainability and gender equity in post-apartheid South Africa. She serves on a number of national and international advisory research panels relating to urban reconstruction.
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/rethinking-sustainable-cities-from-slogan-to-implementation/
LOCATION:Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20141105T180000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20141105T193000
DTSTAMP:20260418T125949
CREATED:20141017T042622Z
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SUMMARY:Kapuscinski Development Lecture: Aromar Revi
DESCRIPTION:Putting the Urban at the Heart of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals \nThe Millennium Development Goals are expiring and need to be replaced with a new set of globally applicable and locally implementable Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030. Climate Change negotiations are stalled and need a more determined and pragmatic approach if run-away impacts are to be avoided. It is clear that a different economic\, social and human development path must be established to ensure greater sustainability and inclusion of all citizens into productive economic life and well-being. Cities and regions across the world provide the opportunity to do this. Africa and Asia are at the centre of the urban\, social and economic transitions that the world will witness over the next two decades. It is important that we see political imaginations and leadership from these geographies that address local\, regional and global themes. \nThe lecture will interest policy makers\, activists\, business leaders\, journalists and academics.  \nAbout the speaker: \nAromar Revi is Director of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) India’s prospective independent national University for Research & Innovation addressing its challenges of urbanisation. He has been a senior advisor to various ministries of the Government of India\, and has consulted for a wide range of UN\, multilateral\, bilateral development and private sector institutions. He is a member of the Leadership Council of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)\, co-chair of its urban thematic group\, and a Fellow of the India China Institute at the New School\, New York. A global expert on sustainable urban development\, he has co-led a successful international campaign for an urban Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) as part of the UN’s post-2015 development agenda\, which brought the major global urban institutions and over 200 cities and institutions together. He has led over 100 major research\, consulting and implementation assignments in India and abroad. He has helped structure\, design and review development investments in excess of $8 billion\, including housing and urban development plans for two-thirds of India’s 29 states in the 1990s. Besides being part of multiple international projects in 6 countries\, he has worked on 3 of the world’s 10 largest cities\, and with communities across 25 Indian states. A leading expert on Global Environmental Change especially on Climate Change adaptation and mitigation\, he is one of the Coordinating Lead Authors for the Urban Areas section of the IPCC 5th Assessment report (2014)\, and co-PI of an international Climate Adaptation research programme than spans India and Africa. He is one of South Asia’s leading disaster mitigation and management experts and has led emergency teams to assess\, plan and execute recovery and rehabilitation programmes for 10 major earthquake\, cyclone\, surge and flood events affecting over 5 million people\, and serves on the Advisory Board of the UNISDR Scientific & Technical Advisory Group and its Global Assessment of Risk. \nThe Kapuscinski Development Lectures are a series of high-level lectures focused on development-related issues organized jointly by the United Nations Development Programme\, the European Community and leading universities and think-tanks. There have been over 50 lectures by top development thinkers since 2009. The lectures honour Ryszard Kapuscinski\, the celebrated Polish writer and journalist who covered developing countries. Past lectures have been delivered by\, among others\, Aung San Suu Kyi\, Ashraf Ghani\, Jagdish Bhagwati\, Helen Clark\, Jan Pronk\, Jeffrey Sachs\, José Antonio Ocampo\, Kamal Dervis\, Mark Malloch-Brown\, Michelle Bachelet and Paul Collier.  See: http://kapuscinskilectures.eu \nThe Kapuscinski Development Lecture in Cape Town is a joint initiative of the European Commission\, the United Nations Development Programme\, the African Centre for Cities\, and the University of Cape Town. The project is funded by the European Commission. \nPlease take your seats from 5:45 as the lecture is being streamed live and will start at 6:00 promptly. \nRSVP maryam.waglay@uct.ac.za using subject line “Kapuscinski Development Lecture” \n  \n            
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/kapuscinski-development-lecture/
LOCATION:Lecture Hall 3B\, New Snape Building\, University of Cape Town\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20141103T090000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20141103T193000
DTSTAMP:20260418T125949
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SUMMARY:Density Syndicate Conference
DESCRIPTION:    \n  \n  \nThe Density Syndicate Think Tank invites you to participate in the presentation of a seven-month project by three multi-disciplinary teams of South African and Dutch designers\, city officials and researchers looking at the future of three urban sites in Cape Town. As part of the City Desired Exhibition\, project contributors\, key City officials and a select number of stakeholders will convene on 3 November 2014 at the City Hall to review and discuss findings. \nTwenty years after democracy\, South African cities remain stubbornly divided\, fragmented\, inconvenient for the poor and uninspiring. This has manifested in cities made up of a patchwork of disconnected business districts\, wealthy neighbourhoods\, gated communities and poor townships. In the case of Cape Town\, the affluent City Bowl and southern and northern suburbs stand in contrast to large swathes of township and informal areas. Despite considerable deracialisation of lower middle-class suburbs\, the townships and informal areas remain profoundly mono-functional\, racially homogenous and most vulnerable to a multiplicity of risks. It is uncontested that the current situation is socially\, economically and ecologically unsustainable\, yet\, despite the availability of urban design expertise and policy commitment to transformation\, we have very few compelling examples of how we can imagine and build our city differently. In order to explore how to address these challenges\, ACC and INTI have worked with the City of Cape Town on a series of three speculative studios. By using the combined design intelligence of Dutch and South African specialists\, The Density Syndicate has enabled the exploration of innovative\, alternative strategies for the future of Cape Town. \nThe symposium will shed light on the proposed scenarios and will invite key stakeholders from local government\, academia and mass media to provide feedback on their appropriateness\, viability and desirability. The format provides a platform for authors to exhibit the proposal and for  key ‘respondents’ to immediately interrogate proposals and raise questions for debate. Animated deliberations are expected to set the tone for an enlightening symposium. \nThe sites studied by the Density Syndicate are the following: \nLOTUS PARK \nLotus Park is a small informal settlement situated between the Khayelitsha-Cape Town train line and the Lotus River Canal. Lotus Park is adjacent to western forecourt of the Nyanga Junction station. The Lotus Park team focused on: maintaining existing density to avoid any relocation; consider how best to optimise mixed use (economic\, social and cultural) planning; taking the Lotus River into account in advancing sustainability planning principles. \nMAITLAND \nVoortrekker Road stretches around 15km from Woodstock in central Cape Town\, through Maitland\, Goodwood\, and Parow to Bellville. It is a busy transport corridor between Bellville and the CBD and is lined with a range of small businesses and light industry. Of particular interest to this project is the Maitland stretch of the corridor. There is a significant unrecognised African immigrant population living and running small businesses in the area and offers another kind of opportunity for exploring density and diversity in Cape Town. In particular\, it offers an opportunity to explore a different model of urban regeneration to what has unfolded in the Woodstock and Salt River stretches\, anchored by creative industries and high-end retail and fine dining. \nTRUP-PLUS + GREENFIELDS STRIP \nThe TRUP-plus+ site is a greenfield strip that includes the Two Rivers Urban Park and the Athlone Power Station. Situated halfway between the airport and the Cape Town CBD\, the decommissioned Athlone Power Station site is uniquely located between three very different suburbs: Pinelands\, a predominantly middle class ‘white’ suburb; Athlone\, a predominantly ‘coloured’ neighbourhood’; and Langa\, a largely poor ‘black’ area. The TRUP-plus+ offers a unique opportunity of experimenting with possibilities of social integration at the nexus of these suburbs. \nThe Density Syndicate held two studios: one in May and one in July 2014. Participants include representatives from: African Centre for Cities (SA); Cape Town Partnership (SA); City of Cape Town Spatial Planning & Urban Design (SA); Community Organisation Resource Centre (SA); dhk urban (SA); Doepel Strijkers (NL); H+N+S Landscape Architects (NL); International New Town Institute (NL); Jakupa architects + urban designers (SA); Land+Civilization Compositions (NL); Provincial Department of Human Settlements (SA); Sustainability Institute (SA); Urban Water Management Research Unit (SA); Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading (SA); Witteveen+Bos (NL); Uberbau (GER); NL Architects (NL). \nConference Programme will be uploaded soon. Watch this space! \n  \nThe Density Syndicate is a think-tank initiative by the African Centre for Cities (ACC)\, International New Town Institute (INTI)\, and in collaboration with the City of Cape Town and Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading (VPUU). It has been made possible by the City of Cape Town\, the Dutch Creative Industries Fund\, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and the Netherlands Consulate General\, Cape Town. It is also a programmatic component for NL@WDC2014\, an initiative of the Netherlands Consulate-General in Cape Town. \nFollow us on Facebook and Twitter @ through #DensitySyndicate or #WDC234
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/density-syndicate-conference/
LOCATION:City Hall\, Darling Street\, Cape Town\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Climate Change\, Cape Town and King Canute: the risk of sea-level rise to the City of Cape Town
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Future Forshore Project\, Anton Cartwright (ACC – UCT) and Darryl Colenbrander (CoCT) will be discussing the issue of sea level rise in Cape Town.
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/climate-change-cape-town-king-canute-risk-sea-level-rise-city-cape-town/
LOCATION:2nd Floor\, City Hall\, Western Cape\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140325T080000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140325T170000
DTSTAMP:20260418T125949
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SUMMARY:GPIA Presents Edgar Pieterse on Africa's Urban Revolution
DESCRIPTION:  \n at \, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/gpia-presents-edgar-pieterse-africas-urban-revolution/
LOCATION:The Auditorium; Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall\, 66 West 12th Street (formerly known as Tishman)\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130815
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130817
DTSTAMP:20260418T125949
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SUMMARY:MPhil in Urban Infrastructure
DESCRIPTION:Convener: Dr. M Brown-Luthango. \n20 HEQF credits at level 9. \nCourse outline: Sustainable livelihood\, participation\, governance\, partnerships\, development action plans\, survey methods.
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/mphil-in-urban-infrastructure-community-development-end5043z/
LOCATION:UCT\, Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20130807T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20130807T170000
DTSTAMP:20260418T125949
CREATED:20130822T080645Z
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SUMMARY:Producing Luanda
DESCRIPTION:When: Aug 7\, 2013 (1pm)\nWhere: Studio 5\, Engeo Building\, UCT\, Cape Town \nAntonio Tomas is a research fellow at Makerere Institute of Social Research\, in Kampala. He received his doctoral degree in Anthropology from Columbia University\, in New York. He is the author of a study on the African nationalist Amílcar Cabral titled O Fazedor de Utopias: Uma Biografia de Amílcar (The Maker of Utopias: A Biography of Amilcar Cabral (Lisbon [Portugal]; Praia [Cape Verde]\, Tinta da China; Spleen\, 2007; 2008). For ten years he has been a regular contributor to Angolan newspapers\, and a selection of his journalistic writings has been published under the title Poligrafia: Das Páginas de Jornais Angolanos (Poligrafia: from the Pages of Angolan Newspapers\, Luanda\, Casa das Ideias\, 2010). In 2012\, he worked as visiting professor at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales\, in Paris. Currently\, he is writing a book tentatively called In the skin of the city: Luanda\, or the dialectics of spatial transformation.
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/producing-luanda/
LOCATION:UCT\, Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130801
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130802
DTSTAMP:20260418T125949
CREATED:20130820T075431Z
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SUMMARY:Informal Settlement Upgrading
DESCRIPTION:When: Aug 21\, 2013 (1pm)\nWhere: Rm 2.27\, Davies Room\, Engeo Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town \n    Speakers: Community leaders\, Informal Settlement Network members\, Community Organisation Resource Centre\, and Shack/Slum Dwellers International \n    City planning and growth strategies in South Africa have quite simply been unable to account effectively for the prevalence of informal shelter and employment strategies. Grassroots strategies for generating alternative planning approaches are subject to significant amounts of attention in theory\, yet the precise approaches and mechanics of these strategies in practice are still not well understood. The role of organizing communities that experience informality in South African cities is perhaps one of the most under-explored mechanisms for achieving more inclusive city growth trajectories.The South African Alliance is made up of two social movements (Federation of the Urban Poor\, Informal Settlement Network) and NGO professional supporters (Community Organisation Resource Centre\, iKhayalami\, uTshani Fund). These actors have been working to include the poor in urban development in South Africa since the end of Apartheid. This includes the largest civil society housing initiative in the democratic era: over 15\,000 houses built through government subsidies channeled directly to low-income communities linked to the Federation of the Urban Poor and initiating a strong practice based model on informal settlement upgrading.This brown bag seminar will focus on the Alliance’s work on in situ informal settlement upgrading\, through a presentation of recent people-led projects. These have been designed to shift the policy space around provision of land\, services\, and housing for the poor in the city of Cape Town. Presenters will include community leaders\, Informal Settlement Network members\, Community Organisation Resource Centre\, and Shack/Slum Dwellers International.
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/informal-settlement-upgrading/
LOCATION:UCT\, Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20130614T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20130614T170000
DTSTAMP:20260418T125949
CREATED:20130826T095006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130826T103440Z
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SUMMARY:Food Security and Place-Based Governance
DESCRIPTION:When: Jun 27\, 2013 (1pm)\nWhere: Rm 2.27\, Davies Room\, Engeo Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\nTraditional responses to food insecurity are unable to mitigate the growing challenge of limited and inappropriate food access. Although generally overlooked in traditional approaches to food security\, this challenge is felt most severely in cities\, particularly African cities. The second urban transition calls for different approaches to a number of interlinked urban challenges. Food insecurity is one such challenge. Alternative approaches to the urban food challenge and particularly to urban food governance are emerging. However\, while some cities in the South are acting on this challenge\, traditional aspatial and scale-neutral views of food security dominate. Innovative programmatic responses to food insecurity are emerging but are generally located in Northern cities. While the programmes may speak to Northern urban issues\, the new urban food governance structures that enable such programmes offer opportunities for Southern cities. These governance structures have the potential to enable scale-centred interventions that respond to and mitigate the food insecurity challenge in place- appropriate ways. Using the concept of Alternative Food Geographies this talk will provide an analysis of food security responses focussing specifically on how these are enabling new forms of urban food governance and how food\, food security and the city coalesce\, enabling appropriate actions. \nGareth Haysom is a PhD candidate within the African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN)\, a programme within the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town. Gareth’s work has focussed on the interface between food and sustainability\, considering challenges within the broader food system. More recently work has focussed specifically on how the food/sustainability nexus intersects with urban governance in Southern Africa.
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/food-security-and-place-based-governance/
LOCATION:UCT\, Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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