Projects
The ACC aims to produce credible new knowledge on the drivers of urban crisis in African cities with an eye on systemic solutions
Cityscapes Magazine
CityScapes is a 144 page biannual print publication. It is neither an academic journal nor a literary periodical. The magazine is a hybrid of forms, simultaneously invested in scholarly discourse around contemporary urbanism in Africa and the global south, as much as individual everyday experiences and activities of the multitude of actors that are actively involved in shaping cities across the continent and the rest of the developing world.
Africa Peer Learning, Knowledge and Dissemination Programme
The Africa Peer Learning, Knowledge and Dissemination Programme seeks to address the challenges of urban development in Africa through networks and knowledge sharing.
Antipode Abstract: Situated Urban Political Ecology
A video abstract of Situated Urban Political Ecology, a project looking at how African urbanism can inform Urban Political Ecology and the associated research methods, theory and practice to create a more situated.
Contributing to Broader Urban Debates in South Africa
Contributing to Broader Urban Debates in South Africa, coordinated by Gordon Pirie, seeks to address the shortage of up-to-date and alternative knowledges on South African cities.
The Knowledge Transfer Programme
The Knowledge Transfer Programme is a project under the wing of Mistra Urban Futures, and aims to facilitate the creation of new knowledge and tools through a working collaboration between academic researchers and Cape Town City officials.
Rising Waters: Working together on Cape Town’s flooding
The Flooding in Cape Town under Climate Risk (FliCCR) Project book explores the challenges and opportunities of collaborative governance as a way to get a broader group of stakeholders involved in flooding responses.
Urban Flooding CityLab
This CityLab focused on understanding the causes and impacts of flooding of informal settlements and how flooding risks can be reduced.
Ray Pahl Fellowship in Urban Studies, 2016
Applications are now open for the 2016 Ray Pahl Research Fellowship. The Fellowship is open to post-doctoral scholars with research interests in African cities. We are particularly looking for African scholars residing in and working on the continent who wish to further their research for a 12 month period as part of the ACC.
Changing Planning Education in Africa: The Role of the Association of African Planning Schools
Vanessa Watson and Nancy Odendaal consider the challenge of changing planning education in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Experiential Learning in African Planning Schools
Nancy Odendaal (2012) delves into the history of the Association of African Planning Schools and discusses the pedagogical dimensions of the project
Reality check: Planning education in the African urban century
By Nancy Odendaal (2012), the paper analyses what it takes if urban planning is to be relevant and effective in the face of current and future urbanisation challenges on the African continent.
Stepping Stone Part 2 – Ceasefire
In 2014, the Urban Violence CityLab collaborated with the Tafelsig People’s Association (TPA), First Community Research Centre (FCRC), UCT TV Studio and the UCT Centre for Film and Media Studies on an initiative that equipped four young people with basic film-making and media skills.