Urban Development
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The city and Egypt’s constitution 2013
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
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The case for Bellville and Voortrekker Road (infographic)
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
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Nairobi’s future success demands a mixture of competence and caring
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
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Can design shape identity, health and housing?
(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
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The future of cities?
(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
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Making the case for African cities
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
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NGOs and knowledge generation in the urban context
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
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King City promises to redefine Ghana’s urban landscape
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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Call for Papers: Urban Lab+ London Symposium 2015
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.
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Call for papers: special issue of Articulo – Journal of Urban Research, on “Inconspicuous Globalization”
This issue aims to shed light on the less visible places where complex economic, social and spatial dynamics are entangled.
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Vacancy: Professorship in Urban Studies at ACC
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.
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Become a Young Urbanist with Future Cape Town
Sign up with Future Cape Town to become a Young Urbanist, and join a network dedicated to the transformation of cities.
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Transforming Cities, Transformative Cities
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.
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Call for Papers: SBE16 Hamburg
The SBE16 Hamburg conference is part of an international series of conferences that focus on sustainable building and construction.
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Call for Applications: Post Doctoral Research Fellowship (GCRO)
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.
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Second call for papers: Doing Global Urban Research International Conference, Loughborough University
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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Call for papers: ECAS 2015 6th European Conference on African Studies
The principal theme of ECAS 6 is Collective Mobilisations in Africa: Contestation, Resistance, Revolt. This theme, however, is not exclusive. The scientific committee will also consider panel proposals on other themes, associated with emergent and more classical fields of study alike.
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Call for papers: Local Government and Urban Governance
“Local Government and Urban Governance: Citizen Responsive Innovations in Europe and in Africa” The 2015 Annual Conference of the International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on ‘Geography of Governance’ (IGU-GoG), to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, 9 – 10 April 2015, at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning – University of Lisbon, aims to explore … Continued
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Better Growth, Better Cities: Rethinking and Redirecting Urbanisation in Africa
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.
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Thinking cities through elsewhere: Comparative tactics for a more global urban studies
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.
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Is Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa Different?
While it seems that the overall African urbanization experience matches global patterns, this paper discusses the differences in urbanization at the sector level.
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Moving Unruly Contemporary Urbanism Toward Sustainable Urban Development in Ghana by 2030
This paper examines the population dynamics of cities in Ghana as well as the future development of Ghanaian cities.
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Urban planning, demolition of property and citizens’ deprivation in African cities : a polycentric planning perspective
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.
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The social, spatial, and economic roots of urban inequality in Africa: Contextualizing Jane Jacobs and Henry George
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.
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Claiming the Streets: Property Rights and Legal Empowerment in the Urban Informal Economy
This paper looks at the concept of law and urban development. The focus is on street trade and the informal economy.
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African urban fantasies: dreams or nightmares?
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.
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Spatial policy, planning and infrastructure investment: Lessons from urban simulations in three South African cities
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.
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Review: Urban Governance In Post-apartheid Cities: Modes Of Engagement In South Africa’s Metropoles
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.