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How to turn apartheid urban planning on its head
Professor Edgar Pieterse, recently spoke about the current policy landscape for urbanism, the majority and elite city, and re-imagining the township as city at the Policy Workshop on Spatial Inequality
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Public Art and the Power of Place
Individual or groups of artists from, or working in Cape Town’s townships in visual arts, performance, graffiti, music, poetry and/or theatre are invited to apply for a R50000 grant to produce one of six public art engagements that explore the significance of place outside of Cape Town’s City Bowl in this new ACC initiative.
Land value capture and infrastructure finance in Sub-Saharan Africa
An invitation is extended to this symposium organised by the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town.
Great Texts / Big Questions
On April 30th 2014, Professor Edgar Pieterse will present a lecture titled “Africa’s Urban Revolution: Epistemic Adventures” as part of GIPCA’s Great Texts/Big Questions series in Cape Town.
AAPS Conference 2014
Registration and a call to papers is now open for the AAPS’ fourth all-schools conference in 2014 which takes place in Cape Town from 17-19 November 2014. Titled “African Urban Planning and the Global South: Pedagogy, Research, Practice”; AAPS 2014 will focus on the central themes and problems of African urbanization.
Shaping the City: Amanda Burden
The New York Times has described Amanda Burden, Chair of the New York City planning Commission, as “…leaving an indelible legacy of how all five boroughs will look and feel for decades to come”. In the last 10 years she has steered development in New York in a path that emphasises design, sustainability and zoning and has overseen various programmes and projects that have transformed the city. Here, she shares her insights into some of those initiatives.