Documenting state and organisational practices
Documenting state and organisational practices that shape the livelihoods of informal workers is a focus of the Inclusive Cities project. Findings are published as WIEGO Briefs and WIEGO Working Papers.
Projects
The ACC aims to produce credible new knowledge on the drivers of urban crisis in African cities with an eye on systemic solutions
Serious Fun
Citizenship can be fun. Just because most community participatory processes are boring and unimaginative, it does not mean that getting people animated about their communities have to be dull. This project aims to celebrate the liberatory power of playful learning and spatial engagement.
The Density Syndicate
The Density Syndicate is a think-tank initiative by the African Centre for Cities (ACC) and International New Town Institute (INTI) with the support of the City of Cape Town, the Dutch Creative Industries Fund, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, the Netherlands Consulate General, Cape Town and the Goethe-Institut. It is also a programmatic component for NL@WDC2014, an initiative of the Netherlands Consulate-General in Cape Town.
10 cities: Informal Economy Monitoring Study
The Informal Economy Monitoring Study aims to provide credible, grounded evidence of a range of driving forces, both positive and negative, that affect conditions of work in the informal economy over time in 10 cities.
Assessing the impact of mega events on the working poor
This work aims to understand the multifaceted nature of the impact of mega events on the working poor and to publicise these findings.
Sustainable Urban Transitions
The project provides a platform for a number of leading research centres working on the potential of infrastructure transitions as a key driver for the remaking and reorganisation of urban life in both Southern and Northern contexts.
The State of Ethiopian Cities
The main objectives of the State of the Ethiopian Cities Report project is to provide urban policy and decision makers of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia ( FDRE) with analytical data on existing urban systems and profiles that will help them to monitor progress towards defined targets as well as to plan and implement appropriate measures to insure balanced and sustainable urban development
Central CityLab
The Central Citylab ran between 2008 and 2012. It focused on residential densification of Cape Town’s CBD, emerging from the City of Cape Town’s aspiration to increase the area’s population by 100,000 people within a 10-year period. This increase represents an almost 3-fold increase from the current population of around 55,000 people.
