The ACC aims to produce credible new knowledge on the drivers of urban crisis in African cities with an eye on systemic solutions
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.
Using collective efficacy as a lens, Dr Mercy Brown-Luthango tries to understand high levels of violence and crime within Freedom Park, and urban settlement in Cape Town.
African-Asian Urbanisms reflects the coming together of the research trajectories of Edgar Pieterse and AbdouMaliq Simone on contemporary urbanisms in the global South.
Based in six African cities, Urban Ark strives to better understand the nature and scale of disaster risks in urban areas where there is poor housing infrastructure.
FRACTAL aims to advance scientific knowledge about regional climate responses to human activities and work with decision-makers to integrate this knowledge into climate-sensitive decisions at a city-regional scale.
Investigating the emerging “turn-around” cities trope, brought on by global economic trends, this initiative seeks to critically explore resultant governance dynamics in the cities of Johannesburg, Luanda and Lagos.
Urbanafrica.net is an online platform dedicated to communicating about African cities.
The Cities Alliance partnership features a broad range of members with a global focus. The core work of the Think Tank is to continuously refine a compelling narrative on Africa’s urban transition that can shape debate and drive action towards effective urban policy responses in Africa.
“In order to understand cities properly, we need to look at them through food” [Carolyn Steel, Hungry City (2008, p. 10)].
Coordinated by the South African Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA), the Integrated Urban Development Framework is a policy initiative designed to foster a shared understanding across government and society about how best to manage urbanisation in South African cities.
Situated Urban Political Ecologies is a platform that supports research activities related to situated and contested political ecologies affected by processes of urbanisation.
These regular seminar sessions provide engaging spaces for urban practitioners and members of the academic community to discuss issues that are on the forefront of urban scholarship.
Individual or groups of artists from, or working in Cape Town’s townships in visual arts, performance, graffiti, music, poetry and/or theatre are invited to apply for a R50000 grant to produce one of six public art engagements that explore the significance of place outside of Cape Town’s City Bowl in this new ACC initiative.
Public Art and the Power of Place is a public-facing art project, initiated by the ACC, that aims to explore the significance of place in Cape Town’s townships.
An invitation is extended to this symposium organised by the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town.
