Cities & Development
This lecture was delivered by Professor Manuel Castells during his visit to Cape Town in 2009.
Teaching
Since 2016 ACC has been building a major postgraduate teaching agenda.
MPHIL in Urban Studies — Southern Urbanism
In 2018 ACC launched a new MPhil in Southern Urbanism designed to provide a rigorous theoretical as well as methodological foundation in interdisciplinary urban studies. It is intended as a bridgehead into PhD-level research, producing skilled researchers able to conduct compelling doctoral research.
MA Sustainable Urban Practice
In 2021 ACC launched a Professional Masters programme aimed at mid-career practitioners from civil society, business and the public sector on sustainable urban practice. This course will follow a modularised model to enable working people to complete it on a part-time basis.
Masters Exchange Programme
ACC has also established a partnership with Basel University’s Masters in Critical Urbanism. The students from the programme complete a semester in Cape Town at ACC.
Master of City and Regional Planning Programme
This is a full-time, two-year, professional taught masters programme with South African Council for Planning accreditation and accreditation from the Royal Town Planning Institute www.rtpi.org.uk. Students from any discipline and with a good (65%+) pass in a final undergraduate year of study can apply to enter the programme directly from an undergraduate degree.
Quick Guide 07 – Rental Housing: a much neglected housing option for the poor
Millions of people in African cities are tenants.
Quick Guide 06 – Community Based Organizations: the poor as agents of development
The emergence of community organizations of the poor in Africa has been a very important de- velopment during the past two decades.
Violence Prevention Through Urban Upgrading
Matthew Krause of the groundbreaking Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading, a Khayelitsha based project that has been credited with contributing to crime prevention and community wellness.
Cities & Development
Cities and Development, a lecture delivered by Manuel Castells at the University of Cape Town in 2009
Crisis States
Part 1 of 4. Professor Jo Beall on some of the findings from the Cities and Fragile States research project which she has led for the last 10 years.
2013 Dates for MPhil programme Announced
The quest for sustainable development is a major contemporary challenge. A fundamental condition for achieving this is restructuring the processes of production-consumption-waste generation within urban/industrial complexes.
South African City Studies Conference
On the 24-25 June 2009 the inaugural South African Cities Conference took place at the University of Witwatersrand. It represented a partnership between ACC and the CUBES and grew out of a shared recognition that a regular forum for academic exchange between South(ern) African scholars of cities was long overdue.
PhD Seminar Series
This links PhD students from a range of departments, all undertaking urban related work. It fosters a core constituency for inter-disciplinary work on a range of urban questions. The seminar convenes every three weeks to explore contemporary urban theory through the lenses of African urbanism and sustainable human settlements, and reflect on methodological aspects of doctoral research.
MPhil in Urban Infrastructure: Design and Management
The Master of Philosophy in Urban Infrastructure: Design and Management programme has been terminated.
Executive Courses
It is envisaged that the ACC will offer specialised executive training courses on critical urban development issues such as: urban public finance, economic development, climate change, and so on.