Projects
The ACC aims to produce credible new knowledge on the drivers of urban crisis in African cities with an eye on systemic solutions
Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
The Urban Studies Foundation is inviting applications for Postdoctoral Research Fellowships that can be undertaken in various institutions across the globe. The ACC would be keen to host a successful applicant after first discussing the scope of the proposed research and its fit with the ACC. Please contact Gordon Pirie at the ACC in this regard.
State of the Cities in Africa
the State of the Cities in Africa (SOCA) Project was initiated to address the demand for information and support from cities and practitioners in order to systematically define urban systems in Africa.
Superdiversity
In a context of intensifying processes of globalisation and regionalisation, the patterns of group formation and inter-group contact are changing significantly. In view of ACC’s commitment to fostering cities that are marked by cosmopolitanism and tolerance, a partnership was established with the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity to better understand urban diversity.
Ways of Knowing Urban Ecologies
This programme led by Dr Henrik Ernstson involves studies of how civil society assocations builds alliances to influence the politics and management of urban ecological conditions. The programme how the notions of ‘urban nature’ and ‘urban ecology’ are caught up and related to social, economic and cultural processes.
Urban Ecology CityLab
The Urban Ecology Citylab, coordinated by Pippin Anderson, is one of the ACC CityLab Programme’s concluded projects.
Sustainable Human Settlements CityLab
This CityLab explores issues of housing policy and practice in the Western Cape. It brings together actors across various sectors and fields to reframe and re-conceptualise constraints to changing the human settlements by exploring current South African housing policy.
Public Culture CityLab
The Public Culture CityLab focused on the impacts of public art in public spaces in Cape Town.
Mistra Urban Futures
The ACC is part of an international network of cities (Gothenburg, Manchester, Shanghai, Kisumu, and Cape Town) within which efforts are being made to better understand and direct urban sustainability through innovative knowledge-sharing practices. The programme is funded through and managed by Mistra Urban Futures (M-UF), headquartered at Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Mistra Urban Futures: CityLab Programme
The CityLab programme, coordinated by researcher Warren Smit, facilitates the co-production of policy-relevant knowledge related to urban poverty and the ways in which it is experienced in the greater Cape Town city region.