Is migration an untapped resource in transformations to sustainability?

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This interview with Neil Adger, one of the Principal Investigators of the MISTY: Migration and Sustainability project, explores some of the connections between migration, cities and sustainable development. This piece has been reposted from the T2S…

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Nature-based Urban Living Lab as a catalyst for the circular economy in South Africa

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In this blog Dr Kevin Winter describes how the WASTE FEW ULL (Waste Food-Energy-Water Urban Living Labs – Mapping and Reducing Waste in the Food-Energy-Water Nexus) project is supporting improved water use in South Africa through…

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Retrofit city-making: A multimedia exploration of vertical occupation in Cape Town

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In this blog by PEAK Urban’s Liza Rose Cirolia, Nobukhosi Ngwenya and Barry Christianson, the authors explore the potential of ‘retrofit city-making’ through the case study of an abandoned hospital in Cape Town, now occupied by…

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ISULabaNtu end of project event

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The ISULabaNtu project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (UK) and the National Research Foundation (South Africa) under the Newton Fund Urban Transformations Programme. The project explores community-led upgrading processes in environmental management…

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Living the peripheries – Photo exhibition

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Take a visual journey through the changing landscapes of seven peripheral neighbourhoods on the outskirts of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, and the city regions of Ethekwini and Gauteng (including Johannesburg) in South Africa. Taken by South…

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Picturing Cape Town’s townships: sandy neighbourhoods, neglected space and thriving enterprise hotspots

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In this picture blog, the Centre for Sustainable, Healthy, and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC)‘s Ivan Turok explores house building, community development and enterprise expansion in some of Cape Town’s townships. This piece was originally posted…

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Creative Experiments in Cities Can Lead to New Jobs and Sustainable Infrastructures

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This piece by Liza Rose Cirolia was reposted from the PEAK Urban website and is an edited version of a Commentary originally posted as The Infrastructural Dimensions of African Urbanization.  Gaps in infrastructure systems have long histories in…

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No Slums and a ‘Vision City’: An Impression of Kigali’s Housing

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In this blog, Professor Ya Ping Wang, Director of the Centre for Sustainable, Healthy, and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC), reflects on housing in Kigali’s different neighbourhoods. This piece was originally posted on the SHLC website.…

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Knowing the 21st Century City

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This blog by Professor Michael Keith, Coordinator of the Urban Transformations portfolio and PI of the Building Capacity for the Future City in Developing Countries (PEAK) project, is reposted from the PEAK Urban website.  The hubris…

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Living the Peripheries: Key Findings

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This blog, authored by Paula Meth and drawing on the writings of her collaborators and findings of the ESRC-funded project Living the Urban Periphery: Investment, Infrastructure and Economic Change in African City-Regions, presents some of the…

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