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  • The city and Egypt’s constitution 2013

    By Cairobserver on 24 September 2013 Governance, Urban Development | Cairo, Egypt Governance

    Last year as a new constitution (for Egypt) was drafted issues pertaining to the right to housing, right to the city, protection and management of patrimony, right to information (including municipal budgets, etc) and the right to elect municipal officials including governors were almost entirely excluded from the final draft or were given vague unbinding … Continued

  • The case for Bellville and Voortrekker Road (infographic)

    By Future Cape Town on 24 September 2013 Urban Development | Cape Town, South Africa Built Environment

    The Future Tyger project kicked off on 26 August with a public conversation that engaged with those who live, work, learn, play, use health facilities or own businesses in the Voortrekker Road Development Corridor, including the Bellville Central Area (in Cape Town, South Africa). Future Tyger aims to positively impact on the future through developing … Continued

  • Nairobi’s future success demands a mixture of competence and caring

    By Informal City Dialogues on 23 September 2013 Urban design, Urban Development | Nairobi Built Environment

    Republished from Informal City Dialogues. As the Informal City Dialogues moves toward its “Embracing the Informal City” conference this month, each week we will present summaries of the scenarios created in the six participating cities. These scenarios were created in multi-day workshops planned and conducted by Forum for the Future in conjunction with the Institute … Continued

  • Can design shape identity, health and housing?

    By Future Cape Town on 19 September 2013 Architecture, Built Environment, Urban design, Urban Development | Cape Town, South Africa Built Environment

    (By Marko Petrik/Future Cape Town). Read part 1 of this write-up, “Design alone cannot save the city” here.  On the 29th August 2013, Future Cape Town attended the Designing Democracy Seminar, held as part of the Open Design Cape Town Event. The event was hosted by DESIGNING_SOUTHAFRICA, and aimed to challenge creative professionals and specialists … Continued

  • The future of cities?

    By on 3 September 2013 Built Environment, Urban design, Urban Development | Built Environment

    (Cross-posted from Future Cape Town). The Future of Cities from Nicolas Siegenthaler on Vimeo. We’re urbanising at over 1 million people a week! What does this mean for tomorrow’s cities? How will people, businesses and governments cope? Every two months, the equivalent of a New York metropolitan sprouts up due to the rate the world … Continued

  • Making the case for African cities

    By James Duminy on 19 August 2013 Urban design, Urban Development | African Cities Built Environment

    In my previous two blog posts (“Visions of African urban futures yet to come” and “Where can we find alternative African futures?”) I have argued that we need to reinvigorate a vision of what African urban areas are, and could be. I further argued that, in order to gain inspiration for alternative African urban futures, … Continued

  • NGOs and knowledge generation in the urban context

    By Jonathan Makuwira on 7 August 2013 Urban Development | African Cities Built Environment

    The world of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) keeps expanding daily as governments both from the ‘North’ and the ‘South’ shrink in their ability to provide basic social services. The global financial crisis which started half a decade ago has had a profound effect not only on governments but also the NGO sector. NGOs have become more … Continued

  • King City promises to redefine Ghana’s urban landscape

    By Admin on 22 April 2013 Urban Development | Ghana Built Environment

    Renaissance Group, a leading emerging markets investment firm and one of the largest developers of urban land in Africa, has partnered with the chief and people of Takoradi Traditional Area for the King City development in the Western Region of Ghana. The development will be a “sustainable, mixed-use, mixed-income development that promotes economic activity and … Continued

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  • Intern with Future Cape Town and Future Lagos

    By Admin on 4 May 2015 Built Environment, Urban Development | Cape Town, Lagos Internship

    2015 applications for internships with Future Cape Town and Future Lagos are now open.

  • Call for Papers: The Horizontal Metropolis

    By Admin on 28 April 2015 Infrastructure, Urban Development | World Cities Call for papers

    The Urbanism and Urbanization International PhD Seminars and the 2015 Latsis Symposium will investigate the “Horizontal Metropolis”, its space, its traditions, and its contemporary relevance as an energetic, ecological and social design framework.

  • Call for Papers: Urban Lab+ London Symposium 2015

    By Admin on 23 April 2015 Education, Urban Development | World Cities Call for papers

    University College London is hosting an international symposium on global approaches to urban higher education, exploring issues of urban inequality and global disparities in the production of urban knowledge, and in the application of expertise.

  • Call for papers: special issue of Articulo – Journal of Urban Research, on “Inconspicuous Globalization”

    By Admin on 27 March 2015 Economy, Urban Development | World Cities Call for papers

    This issue aims to shed light on the less visible places where complex economic, social and spatial dynamics are entangled.

  • Vacancy: Professorship in Urban Studies at ACC

    By Admin on 19 March 2015 Urban Development | African Cities Job

    The University of Basel (Unibas) and the University of Cape Town (UCT) are jointly establishing a Professorship in Urban Studies which will be based in the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at UCT.

  • Become a Young Urbanist with Future Cape Town

    By on 25 February 2015 Urban design, Urban Development | South Africa Call for participation

    Sign up with Future Cape Town to become a Young Urbanist, and join a network dedicated to the transformation of cities.

  • Transforming Cities, Transformative Cities

    By Admin on 23 February 2015 Urban Development | World Cities Call for papers

    The theme of the conference – Transforming cities, transformative cities – reflects EURA’s ongoing concern with the need to re-examine the place which cities take in the political, social and economic order of contemporary societies.

  • Call for Papers: SBE16 Hamburg

    By Admin on 6 February 2015 Built Environment, Infrastructure, Sustainability, Urban Development | African Cities Call for papers

    The SBE16 Hamburg conference is part of an international series of conferences that focus on sustainable building and construction.

  • Call for Applications: Post Doctoral Research Fellowship (GCRO)

    By Admin on 26 January 2015 Housing, Urban Development | Gauteng call for applications

    This is a call for Postdoctoral Research Fellows to apply to join the Gauteng City- Region Observatory, a partnership between the University of Johannesburg, the University of the Witwatersrand, Gauteng Provincial Government and organized local government.

  • Second call for papers: Doing Global Urban Research International Conference, Loughborough University

    By Admin on 13 November 2014 Urban design, Urban Development | Loughborough Call for papers

    Call for papers inviting 45 participants. Sponsored by the Urban Studies Foundation, “Doing Global Urban Research” will take place from Monday 7 September to Wednesday 9 September 2015.

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  • Better Growth, Better Cities: Rethinking and Redirecting Urbanisation in Africa

    By Admin on 9 September 2015 Sustainability, Urban Development | African Cities Working Paper

    This report documents a wide range of projects, programmes and plans being pursued by African cities as part of a new mode of low-carbon urbanism.

  • GaWC Ranked World Cities

    Thinking cities through elsewhere: Comparative tactics for a more global urban studies

    By Admin on 3 September 2015 Rights to the city, Urban Development | African Cities, World Cities Journal Articles

    The paper weaves together classic approaches and more recent innovations in comparison from within urban studies with a wider philosophical analysis of the issues at stake in reframing the architecture of comparison.

  • Is Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa Different?

    By Admin on 3 September 2015 Economy, Policy, Productivity, Urban Development | African Cities Journal Articles

    While it seems that the overall African urbanization experience matches global patterns, this paper discusses the differences in urbanization at the sector level.

  • Moving Unruly Contemporary Urbanism Toward Sustainable Urban Development in Ghana by 2030

    By Admin on 1 September 2015 Data, Planning, Urban Development | Ghana Journal Articles

    This paper examines the population dynamics of cities in Ghana as well as the future development of Ghanaian cities.

  • Urban planning, demolition of property and citizens’ deprivation in African cities : a polycentric planning perspective

    By Admin on 27 August 2015 Planning, Urban Development | Angola, Ghana, Kenya Journal Articles

    This paper used the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework to analyse the missing links between urban managers and urban residents in Angola, Ghana and Kenya.

  • The social, spatial, and economic roots of urban inequality in Africa: Contextualizing Jane Jacobs and Henry George

    By Admin on 27 August 2015 Built Environment, Economy, Governance, Human Rights, Urban Development | African Cities Journal Articles

    This paper argues that a contextual holistic approach to urban inequality that attempts to answer who, what and how urban inequality is caused, could aid in transforming urban inequality in Africa.

  • Claiming the Streets: Property Rights and Legal Empowerment in the Urban Informal Economy

    By Admin on 21 August 2015 Informality, Rights to the city, Urban Development | Dakar, Dar es Salaam Journal Articles

    This paper looks at the concept of law and urban development. The focus is on street trade and the informal economy.

  • African urban fantasies: dreams or nightmares?

    By Admin on 20 August 2015 Governance, Sustainability, Urban Development, Urban politics | African Cities Journal Articles

    Labelled as the “last frontier” for international property development, sub-Saharan Africa’s larger cities are currently being revisioned in the image of cities such as Dubai, Shanghai and Singapore, which claim top positions in the world-class city leagues.

  • Spatial policy, planning and infrastructure investment: Lessons from urban simulations in three South African cities

    By Admin on 19 August 2015 Housing, Planning, Urban Development | South Africa Journal Articles

    This article presents the findings of simulation work in three South African metropolitan areas in an effort to demonstrate that more spatially efficient investment choices in both economic and basic infrastructure spending can make a significant impact on the equity, efficiency and sustainability of human settlements.

  • Review: Urban Governance In Post-apartheid Cities: Modes Of Engagement In South Africa’s Metropoles

    By Gerry Adlard on 4 August 2015 Governance, Urban Development | South Africa Book Reviews

    The essence of this book is a stream of rich narratives about how wealthy and poor South Africans navigate or flounder in the contradictory and confusing waters created by a struggling government.

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