On November 5, 2014; Aromar Revi, Director of the indian Instutitute for Human Settlements will deliver The Kapuchinski Lecture in Cape Town in an ACC joint initiative with the European Commission, the United Nations Development Programme, and the University of Cape Town.
From 17-19 November, Association of African Planning Schools (AAPS) is hosting its fourth all-schools conference in 2014. Themed ‘African Urban Planning and the Global South: Pedagogy, Research, Practice’, the Conference will feature a number of international experts on cities and urbanization in Africa and the global South
Details for City Desired, our upcoming exhibition, are now available on a dedicated new website www.citydesired.com
Ray Pahl Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship is open to any scholar of recent postdoctoral standing who is a citizen of an African country (excluding the Republic of South Africa) and who would find the ACC a congenial work environment for intellectual reflection, scholarly engagement and debate, and writing
Alexandre Absan Frediani from the University College London (UCL) recently shared fascinating insights about participatory design through play in an interactive session moderated by ACC’s Liza Cirolia.
Henrik Ernstson recently delivered a talk at Portland State University titled Rethinking Urban Ecosystem Services: Theorizing the Ecology and Politics of Urbanization from Stockholm to Cape Town”.
“The African Centre for Cities recently launched a new CityLab on “Urban Violence, Safety and Governance”. Led by Dr Mercy Luthango-Brown, this CityLab will look at the effectiveness of upgrading informal settlements as a response to violence and the improvement of safety within settlements.
The Density Syndicate, a think-tank initiative by the ACC and International New Town Institute kicks off with its first studio on 12 May 2014 in Langa, Cape Town.
SUPE’s 5 day Urban Political Ecology in African Cities Workshop aims to discuss critical approaches to urban environmental research. The workshop is aimed to support new ideas, research collaborations and grant applications and provide an opportunity for discussion and in-depth engagement around these issues.
