The ACC invites applications for one postdoctoral fellowship to undertake research in an ESRC/DFID-funded project focusing on Urban Poverty and Food Systems in secondary cities in sub-Saharan Africa. The three case study cities are Kitwe, Epworth and Kisumu.
“Growing Informal Cities: Mobile Entrepreneurs and Inclusive Growth in South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe” sets out to advance understanding of the reciprocal links between mobility and informal entrepreneurship in Southern African cities.
The ACC is hosting a one-year research project funded by UK DfID to examine how public authorities can use rising land values to finance better, high-capacity urban infrastructure in selected African cities. A team of academics and practitioners is preparing background materials and case studies. The research is led by ACC adjunct professors Ian Palmer and Stephen Berrisford.
New Imaginaries is a 2012 trilogy of art projects by Goethe-Institut that variously explored public space in Johannesburg
This short video captures the key messages and debates emerging from the first Southern Africa Adaptation Colloquium, held in November 2013 and co-hosted by the African Centre for Cities’ Climate Change Think Tank
The Public Culture Research Group engages critically with issues around public art, public space, design and culture-led urban regeneration. It is an epistemic community that offers an intellectual home for a number of ACC researchers involved in diverse projects, each with extensive networks with external researchers and institutions. The key participants in the group are: Shari Daya, Kim Gurney, Jenny Mbaye, Edgar Pieterse, Rike Sitas and Tau Tavengwa.
A recently released book called “Trading Places” is about how urban land markets work in African cities. The book explores how local practice, land governance and markets interact to shape the ways that people at society’s margins access land to build their livelihoods.
The African Centre for Cities (ACC) hosted a workshop focussing on urban informality and migrant entrepreneurship in Southern Africa on 10 February 2014. The workshop brought together academics who specialise in research on issues of informality, migrants, entrepreneurship and xenophobia, particularly in the Southern African context.
