Africa’s Cities: Opening Doors to the World
School of Economics Seminar Room 4th Floor School of EconomicsSPEAKER: Somik Lall DATE: 28 February 2017 TIME: 13:00 - 14:00 VENUE: Seminar Room (4th floor School of Economics) The African Centre […]
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‘The Return of the Political: Insurgent Architects and The City’ an ACC talk by Professor Erik Swyngedouw
The Cape Institute of Architecture (CIFA) building 71 Hout Street, Cape Town , South AfricaProfessor Erik Swyngedouw will give an ACC Special Lecture at the Cape Institute for Architecture (CIFA) on the 8 March 2017. Departing from the […]
What must be our urban question? Reflections on Contemporary Urban Knowledge from Delhi
Studio 3 ENGEO Building, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town,, Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaACC is delighted to be hosting Gautam Bhan from the Indian Institute of Human Settlements who will be giving a […]
Luxified skies: How vertical urban housing became an elite preserve
Studio 3 ENGEO Building, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town,, Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaThe African Centre for Cities and the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics are pleased to co-host a Special Lecture […]
Neighbourhoods, NIMBYists and nobodies: the local politics of the Corridors of Freedom
African Centre for Cities UCT Upper Campus, Cape Town, South AfricaVenue: Seminar Room 3, African Centre for Cities RSVP: Mercy Brown-Luthango at mercy.brown-luthango@uct.ac.za In 2013, Johannesburg’s former mayor, Parks Tau, […]
Invitation to the next Spatial Transformation CityLab Seminar
Seminar Room 3 African Centre for Cities, Upper Campus, Cape Town, South AfricaThe ACC is excited to host Dr. Margot Rubin and Alexandra Appelbaum from the University of the Witwatersrand for the […]
ACC/ AFD Symposium on Informal Settlements, Slums and Precarious Neighbourhoods
Studio 3 ENGEO Building, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town,, Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaThe African Centre for Cities (ACC) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) host a one-day symposium on the AFD book Rethinking Precarious Neighbourhoods edited by Professor Agnès Deboulet, the work of ACC’s Urban Violence, Safety and Inclusion CityLab coordinated by Dr Mercy Bown-Luthango, and the work of the Sustainable Human Settlements CityLab coordinated by Liza Cirolia.
Socio-Spatial Transformation Seminar Series: TOD in Cape Town
Studio 3 ENGEO Building, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town,, Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaThe next seminar in the ACC’s Socio-Spatial Transformation Seminar Series will take a closer look at the City of Cape Town’s plans for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD).
Annual PhD Seminar Series: Understanding Capitalism in Unequal Geographies
Seminar Room 1, EGS Building, Upper Campus, University of Cape Town University of Cape Town, Cape Town , Western Cape, South AfricaThe third iteration of the annual PhD seminar series presented by ACC's Notations on Theories of Radical Urban Change project […]
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Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities
STIAS Wallenberg Research Centre 10 Marais Road, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaThe Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) and the African Centre for Cities (ACC) will jointly host a conference on […]
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