Vanessa Watson

Vanessa Watson

Professor of City Planning

vanessa.watson@uct.ac.za

Vanessa Watson is Principal Investigator of the Governing Food Systems to Alleviate Poverty in Secondary Cities in Africa project.

Vanessa is Professor of City Planning in the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her work explores the limitations of mainstream planning theory in African cities and the impacts of international development on urban poverty.

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