Revaluing the City
The ACC is hosting Study Space IX on behalf of the Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth in the College of Law at Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA.
Networks
ACC is driven by the belief that Africa’s urban challenges can only be addressed once there is sufficient endogenous intellectual capital steeped in urban research. We therefore see our success dependent on the growth of durable knowledge networks, focussed on urban issues, across the continent.
ACC at UCT
The ACC Platform represents a flexible network of urban scholars with multiple perspectives and projects, and is used as a resource university-wide by academics to meet, share research, base projects, and contribute to teaching.
Xiangming Chen on urbanisation in China & South Africa
Xiangming Chen speaks to UrbanAfrica.net’s Brendon Bosworth about urbanisation in China & South Africa at the recent Starting from the South: perspectives on urbanisation in China and South Africa” workshop
Urban infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa: literature reviews
Three Preliminary Reports are available as part of the Inception Phase of the research project “Urban infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa – harnessing land values”
Starting from the South
From 25-27 March 2015, the ACC will co-host a meeting to debate efforts to re-locate the center of urban theory-making southward through a comparative analysis of urbanization policies and patterns in South Africa and eastern China.
AAPS Conference
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
AAPS Conference 2014
Registration and a call to papers is now open for the AAPS’ fourth all-schools conference in 2014 which takes place in Cape Town from 17-19 November 2014. Titled “African Urban Planning and the Global South: Pedagogy, Research, Practice”; AAPS 2014 will focus on the central themes and problems of African urbanization.
African Urban Research Initiative (AURI)
The African Urban Research Initiative (AURI) was initiated in 2013 to support existing and future Africa-based research centres to inform and enhance the policy actors and networks responsible for sustainable urban policy and management in different African contexts.