Special Issue: African Urban Sexualities after Queer Visibilities
ACC Deputy Director Andrew Tucker has edited a special issued of Urban Forum under the banner of African Urban Sexualities after Queer Visibilities.
Publishing
We promote and disseminate quality publications by African scholars on urban topics in general, but rooted in our programmes.
Fighting Urban Corruption in Fast-Growing African Cities
Corruption in Urban Planning: A Guide for Professional and Trainee Planners is a guide developed in partnership with researchers at the African Centre for Cities, geared towards understanding and addressing the impact of corruption on Sub-Saharan cities.
Democracy and the Life of Cities
Democracy and the Life of Cities examines and challenges the role of cities in generating and strengthening democratic practices as authoritarianism rises across much of the world.
Country Synthesis Report: Africa’s Urban Boom – Harnessing The Potential
In this country synthesis report, the PEAK Urban programme shares lessons from research in South Africa, with implications for global policy and practice.
Pathways to transform urban food system
An action research compass for strengthening the informal sector’s role in achieving the right to food.
Geographies of gender and sexuality I: Engaging the shift towards Southern urbanism
Andrew Tucker has authored a new paper entitled Geographies of gender and sexuality I: Engaging the shift towards Southern urbanism, published in Progress in Human Geography.
BOOK LAUNCH | theoriSE: debating the southeastern turn in urban theories
African Centre for Cities invites you to the launch of theoriSE: debating the southeastern turn in urban studies, edited by Oren Yiftachel and Nisa Mammon.
BOOK LAUNCH | Disrupted Urbanism: Situated Smart Initiatives in African Cities
African Centre for Cities is delighted to invite you to the launch of Disrupted Urbanism: Situated Smart Initiatives in African Cities by Prof Nancy Odendaal, Head of Department, School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, University of Cape Town (UCT).
Scientific hubris and a squeamish necropolitics: tracing continuities and discontinuities in AIDS discourses from the perspective of COVID-19
Andrew Tucker and Gerry Kearns have co-authored a paper entitled Scientific hubris and a squeamish necropolitics: tracing continuities and discontinuities in AIDS discourse from the perspective of COVID-19, in Social and Cultural Geography.
Integrating Food Sensitive Planning and Urban Design into Urban Governance Actions
This report focuses on the different approaches to and positions on urban food governance.
A whole-of-government, whole-of-society approach to child nutrition
Join us as we look at a day in the life of 5-year-old Nosipho to see what she eats and what we can do together to ensure she has access to good nutrition daily.
JOBURG BOOK LAUNCH | Panya Routes
Join ACC for the Johannesburg launch of Panya Routes, at the Stokvel Gallery on Saturday, 22 October, at noon.
What Is Critical Urbanism? Urban Research as Pedagogy
The University of Chicago Press has published What is Critical Urbanism? edited by Kenny Cupers, Sophie Oldfield, Manuel Herz, Laura Nkula-Wenz, Emilio Distretti, and Myriam Perret.
