The ACC aims to produce credible new knowledge on the drivers of urban crisis in African cities with an eye on systemic solutions
The Ways of Knowing Urban Ecologies Project engages multiple case studies in Cape Town and Stockholm to build a rich empirical base for theoretical synthesis and for contributing to intensify public debates on the role of ‘nature´ as cultural discourse and material reality.
This project aims to link the study of collective action as it has been concieved and studied by social movement scholars, with biophysical studies of urban ecology. The project strives to understand how collective action can be viewed as not only producing cultural, social or political changes, but indeed also biophysical or ecological changes.
Anna Taylor works with City of Cape Town to assess the potential need, framing and parameters of local climate change policy as a basis for providing public goods and services sustainably and equitably in light of emerging climate risks. This work contributes to the green and fair themes in the Mistra Urban Futures programme.
As part of the MISTRA Space Economy Project, researcher Rob McGaffin is situated in the City of Cape Town’s Department of Spatial Planning & Urban Design, which is in the Economic, Environment & Spatial Planning Directorate.
Anton Cartwright works with officials in the finance, environment and economic development units in the City of Cape Town.
In partnership with Queens University, ACC supports a research project that explores urban food security in eleven Southern African cities. The project seeks to uncover new data and develop appropriate policy responses to this vexed challenge in partnership with local actors.
WIEGO is a global network focused on securing livelihoods for the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy.
The CityLab is underpinned by a data collection and management initiative called the Urban Observatory. Working with a range of public sector bodies (e.g. the City and Province, but also SAEON, SABI, and the CSIR) who use large-scale data sets to inform evidence based policymaking.
Cities have long been connected with processes of bureaucratisation and state-building, as indeed they have long been linked to conflict and war. In bringing these two associations together we engaged with the historical sociology of Charles Tilly and research in the CAFS programme confirmed that the intersection of cities, states and violent conflict remains significant, although it is far more complex in today’s world.
This paper describes the methodology and data used to determine greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions attributable to ten cities or city-regions: Los Angeles County, Denver City and County, Greater Toronto, New York City, Greater London, Geneva Canton, Greater Prague, Barcelona, Cape Town and Bangkok.
The world’s population is now over 50 % urban, and cities account for the majority of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Many cities are developing strategies to reduce their emissions. Here we show how and why emissions differ between cities.
Regional development made a dramatic comeback on the international development scene in 2008. It featured prominently in the flagship UN-Habitat publication, State of the World’s Cities 2008/20091 and equally emerged as a strong theme in the World Bank’s annual development report, World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography,2 which reinforces the importance of space and place in effective development policy.
