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A Participatory Approach to Data Collection for GIS for Flood Risk Management in Informal Settlements of Cape Town

African Center for Cities / 20 August 2013

Urbanization is a global multidimensional process paired with increasing uncertainty due to climate change, migration of people, and changes in the capacity to sustain ecosystem services. This article lays a foundation for discussing transitions in urban governance, which enable cities to navigate change, build capacity to withstand shocks, and use experimentation and innovation in face of uncertainty.

Papers

The Changing Spatial Economy of Cities: An Exploratory Analysis of Cape Town

African Center for Cities / 20 August 2013

The spatial economy of South African cities is generally believed to be experiencing selective deconcentration, which may exacerbate social inequality because of the physical disconnection between jobs and population.

Papers

Weaving Protective Stories

African Center for Cities / 7 August 2013

With rapid worldwide urbanization it is urgent that we understand processes leading to the protection of urban green areas and ecosystems. This is illustrated in the Stockholm National Urban Park.

Papers

Can Cities Afford the Public Transport Function?

African Center for Cities / 7 August 2013

The National Land Transport Act, passed in 2009, laid the basis for city government to take responsibility for managing and regulating public transport at the local level.

Creative Outputs, Publishing

Cityscapes #3: Smart city?

Tau Tavengwa / 28 June 2013

Publishing

Cityscapes #2: A Visionary Statement

Alma Viviers / 31 July 2012

Creative Outputs, Publishing

Cityscapes #2: Inside “the world class city”

Tau Tavengwa / 28 June 2012

Creative Outputs, Publishing

Cityscapes #1: A high wire act

Tau Tavengwa / 28 September 2011

Creative Outputs, Publishing

African Cities Reader II: Mobilities and Fixtures

African Center for Cities / 7 August 2011

The African Cities Reader II: Mobilities and Fixtures is the second installment of this biennial publication that brings together contributors from across Africa and the world to challenge the prevailing depiction of urban life on the continent and redefine cityness, Africa-style.

Creative Outputs, Publishing

Cityscapes #1: Rethinking Urban Things

Alma Viviers / 6 June 2011

Books, Publishing

Quick Guide 01 – Urban Africa: Building with Untapped Potential

African Center for Cities / 7 May 2011

Africa and Asia are at the epicentre of the second large-scale urban transition in the history of the world. The first transition unfolded between 1750 and 1950 in North America and Europe, which saw the urban share of their total population grow from 10% to 52%. The second urban transition has been unfolding largely in the global South since 1950; by 2030 the urban share of the population in this region will have grown from 18% to 56%.

Books, Publishing

Quick Guide 03 – Land: A Crucial Element in Housing the Urban Poor

African Center for Cities / 7 May 2011

Without land, there can be no housing. And without looking at the issue of land, there can be no meaningful discussion about how to solve the problems of housing for the poor in our cities. The inaccessibility of decent, secure, affordable land is the major reason why there are so many informal settlements in African cities and is a contributing factor to urban poverty.

Books, Publishing

Quick Guide 02 – Low Income Housing: Approaches to Helping the Urban Poor Find Adequate Housing in African cities

African Center for Cities / 7 May 2011

This guide describes several ways of addressing low-income housing in African cities at the programme and project level. It focuses on well tried methods of improving the housing and living environments of people living in slums and informal settlements, and providing adequate housing for future generations of urban poor.

Creative Outputs, Publishing

African Cities Reader

African Center for Cities / 7 October 2009

Discourses on urban development tend to dehumanise ordinary Africans by stripping them of the ingenuity it takes to simply survive and reproduce a sense of identity, community, belonging and aspiration that coincides with the conditions of poverty and exploitation.