Informality
Community Engagement: A Practical Workbook for Local Government Practitioners
Community Engagement: A Practical Workbook for Local Government Practitioners, Wilmot Arendse and Mercy Brown-Luthango, aims to increase understanding constructive community engagement in informal settlements.
ACC/ AFD Symposium on Informal Settlements, Slums and Precarious Neighbourhoods
The African Centre for Cities (ACC) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) host a one-day symposium on the AFD book Rethinking Precarious Neighbourhoods edited by Professor Agnès Deboulet, the work of ACC’s Urban Violence, Safety and Inclusion CityLab coordinated by Dr Mercy Bown-Luthango, and the work of the Sustainable Human Settlements CityLab coordinated by Liza Cirolia.
Integrating informal settlements
South Africa has a housing crisis, and informal settlements are a huge part of that crisis, explains Dr Warren Smit of the African Centre for Cities.
Understanding Livelihoods in South African Cities
What decisions are residents in the poorer parts of South African cities forced to make on a day to day basis? How does a city like Ekhuruleni try to address this and what do the citizens think about these efforts? This short film juxtaposes these two voices. It was part of a series we developed to explore the disjuncture between city officials and citizens in an average metropolitan area
