The ACC aims to produce credible new knowledge on the drivers of urban crisis in African cities with an eye on systemic solutions
“Climate Infrastructure & City Governments: A Strategic Framework For African City-Labs”, provides a framework to support the development of ‘city-labs’ in African cities.
In this country synthesis report, the PEAK Urban programme shares lessons from research in South Africa, with implications for global policy and practice.
The African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town invite applications for three full time Research Officers or Senior Research Officers for a two-year period (1 June 2023 – 31 May 2025).
ACC PhD candidate and research fellow Alicia Fortuin was awarded a Zeit Stiftung Fellowship.
An action research compass for strengthening the informal sector’s role in achieving the right to food.
Urban Food Futures is a transdisciplinary action-research programme conducted in cooperation with TMG’s partners from academia and civil society.
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.
African Centre for Cities is hosting a seminar by visiting scholar Julien Migozzi, an Urban Studies Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford. Migozzi will present Segregation “bit by bit”: digital technologies, housing market and the remaking of post-apartheid Cape Town, on 19 April, from 13:00-14:00.
The African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town and Urban Studies at the University of Basel invite applications for a full time Associate Professor or Professor in Urban Studies.
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.
The African Centre for Cities invites applications for a two-year Junior Research Fellow position to join Young and Online in African Cities: Tech-based Activations for Just and Sustainable Urban Development, an applied and action-oriented research project aiming to tackle inequality through exploring the relationship between youth, technology, work, citizenship, and sustainable and just placemaking.
ACC invites you to join us as we host the editor of Critical Neighbourhoods – The Architecture of Contested Communities, Paulo Moreira, Porto-based architect and researcher on Wednesday, 15 February for a lunchtime talk on the book.
ACC invites you to join us as we host the editor of Critical Neighbourhoods – The Architecture of Contested Communities, Paulo Moreira, Porto-based architect and researcher on Wednesday, 15 February for a lunchtime talk on the book.
The African Mayoral Leadership Initiative (AMALI) seeks to catalyse the transformation of cities in Africa by providing tailored support to city leaders through two key platforms:
