Global South
A New Coalition for Urban Transitions to Help Cities Thrive
Following the Better Growth, Better Cities project ahead of the Paris COP in 2015, African Centre for Cities will again partner with the New Climate Economy (NCE) team on the Coalition for Urban Transitions
Democratic Practices of Unequal Geographies
This annual seminar series emerges out of an interest to put into conversation political philosophy and global south urbanism. Importantly, our objective is not that of supplementing a theoretical abstraction (e.g. ‘the political’) with some kind of concrete spatiality.
Cityscapes #7: Futurity
The seventh and latest edition of Cityscapes is framed around the rubric of “futurity”. What will tomorrow be like? It will be more urbanised. It will also, agree various contributors, bear the imprimatur of China. “Whatever the case, China has, for now, become a far more prominent actor than others in the future-making of Africa,” asserts philosopher Achille Mbembe in an anchoring essay
Cityscapes Magazine
CityScapes is a 144 page biannual print publication. It is neither an academic journal nor a literary periodical. The magazine is a hybrid of forms, simultaneously invested in scholarly discourse around contemporary urbanism in Africa and the global south, as much as individual everyday experiences and activities of the multitude of actors that are actively involved in shaping cities across the continent and the rest of the developing world.
African-Asian Urbanisms
African-Asian Urbanisms reflects the coming together of the research trajectories of Edgar Pieterse and AbdouMaliq Simone on contemporary urbanisms in the global South.
Urban Humanities Hub
The African Centre for Cities is in the process of strengthening its humanities focus. The purpose of this endeavour is to draw together an intellectual community dealing with urban humanities across the global South.
