A recently released book called "Trading Places" is about how urban land markets work in African cities. The book explores how local practice, land governance and markets interact to shape the ways that people at society's margins access land to build their livelihoods.
The presentation first addresses the policy and governance contexts for the scalability of community-led slum upgrading based on the Shack/Slum […]
In her paper “Politics, informality and clientelism - exploring a pro-poor urban politics” Diana Mitlin explores what we have learnt […]
ACC is pleased to be hosting the 2016 Ray Pahl Fellow in Urban Studies, Dr Naomi Roux, who will be […]
The Invention of the ‘Sink Estate’: Consequential Categorization and the UK Housing Crisis presented by Tom Slater explores the history and […]
BOXES is a social-justice theatre project devised by award-winning theatre makers Neil Coppen and Ameera Conrad, Journalist Daneel Knoetze and […]
ACC together with the Development Action Group (DAG), will be hosting a seminar entitled Housing Opportunities for All, presented by Dr Krista Paulsen and Dr Vanessa Fry, both fellows of the Mandela Washington Fellowship Programme.
African Centre for Cities is hosting a seminar by visiting scholar Julien Migozzi, an Urban Studies Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford. Migozzi will present Segregation “bit by bit”: digital technologies, housing market and the remaking of post-apartheid Cape Town, on 19 April, from 13:00-14:00.
