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Nourishing Spaces Launched
ACC launches a new IDRC-funded project called Nourishing Spaces which investigates urban food systems in the prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in South Africa, Kenya and Namibia.
Call for submission: ACC International Urban Conference
To mark our tenth anniversary ,African Centre for Cities will convene an international academic conference in Cape Town to take stock of cutting-edge urban research and debate knowledge priorities in the aftermath of the new global development architecture
Noordhoek eco-estates protect the rich from the reality of Masiphumelele
A stone’s throw from the working-class township of Masiphumelele, the Noordhoek mountains are being transformed into exclusive “eco-estates” which preserve apartheid geography just as the Group Areas Act did, write Bruce Baigrie and Henrik Ernstson
Integrating informal settlements
South Africa has a housing crisis, and informal settlements are a huge part of that crisis, explains Dr Warren Smit of the African Centre for Cities.