“Climate Infrastructure & City Governments: A Strategic Framework For African City-Labs”, provides a framework to support the development of ‘city-labs’ in African cities.
This case report by Alicia Fortuin, as part of the Platform Politics and Silicon Savannah project, explores fintech and motorcycle platform services in Cape Town, South Africa.
This case report by Alexis Sebarenzi, as part of the Platform Politics and Silicon Savannahs project, explores fintech and paratransit in Kigali, Rwanda.
Case Report: Motorcycles, digital platforms and fintech integration in Nairobi, Kenya
Fintech and the platformed motorcycle: speculating on ordinary mobility economies in urban Africa
This report shares insights on how the use of motorcycles reconfigures urban mobility, governance and economies due to the introduction of platform-based systems and the rise in platformisation of on-demand logistics.
Charting Directions for—and Challenges at Being Able to Undertake—Future Research on African Urban Sexualities
Queer Infrastructures: Objects of and Orientations towards Urban Research Practice
African Urban Sexualities After Queer Visibilities
ACC Deputy Director Andrew Tucker has edited a special issued of Urban Forum under the banner of African Urban Sexualities after Queer Visibilities.
Corruption in Urban Planning: A Guide for Professional and Trainee Planners is a guide developed in partnership with researchers at the African Centre for Cities, geared towards understanding and addressing the impact of corruption on Sub-Saharan cities.
The African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town invite applications for three full time Research Officers or Senior Research Officers for a two-year period (1 June 2023 – 31 May 2025).
On the first UN Science, Technology and Innovation in Africa Day, 2 May 2023the International Science Council together with the African Centre for Cities present webinar aimed at exploring effective ways of accelerating local action towards the implementation of the SDGs in African cities.
An action research compass for strengthening the informal sector’s role in achieving the right to food.
Urban Food Futures is a transdisciplinary action-research programme conducted in cooperation with TMG’s partners from academia and civil society.
