The purpose of this draft national urban development framework (NUDF) is to provide a common nation-wide view on how to strengthen the capacity of South Africa’s towns, cities and city-regions to realise their potential to support national shared growth, social equity and environmental sustainability.
This paper explores the meaning of the developmental state for spatial economic policy in South Africa. Two main questions are addressed: do provincial governments have a role to play in pro- moting economic prosperity, and to what extent do current provincial policies possess the attri- butes of a developmental state?
This report presents a statistical profile of informal employment in South Africa from 2005 to 2007, using September Labour Force Surveys.
In most African cities, there is sufficient food to feed everyone and considerable wastage of fresh and processed foodstuffs. Poor households are food insecure because they cannot afford to purchase enough quality food and are unable to access the surplus food that exists.
Urban food security is a significant development challenge in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the field is current- ly under-researched and under-theorized.
So called bad buildings in the Inner City of Johannesburg reflect the complex processes of city formation in Africa.
Ricky Burdett, director of LSE Cities and co-editor of the volume Living in the endless City, speaks about the 500-page tour de force at the Open Book Festival 2011 in Cape Town.
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.
Professor Sue Parnell speaks to Robtel Neajai Pailey on understanding participation, complexity and governance in African cities. This video is part of the Governance in Africa Conversations Series.
Professor Parnell is a founding member of the African Centre for Cities, has served the ACC on secondment, and sits on its Executive Committee.
In a context of intensifying processes of globalisation and regionalisation, the patterns of group formation and inter-group contact are changing significantly. In view of ACC’s commitment to fostering cities that are marked by cosmopolitanism and tolerance, a partnership was established with the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity to better understand urban diversity.
