The question is not whether a city is fixed – it can never finally be – but rather what trajectory it is on.
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A new book documents how young people in an informal settlement on the outskirts of Johannesburg use social ties to find ways of making a living.
South Sulawesi’s rural youth navigate livelihood uncertainty and seek pathways towards hopeful futures.
Periodic flooding in Kinshasa is a symptom of uncontrolled urbanisation.
Street vendors in Ghana face a daily battle with city authorities.
Women in the Grafton community of Sierra Leone are often left with restricted land ownership rights.
Backyard cricket is a key entry point for cricket participation but it is facing many challenges, including apartment living and modern technology.
There’s an opportunity for Africa’s cities to learn from the successes and challenges faced by cities in other parts of the world.
Cities are political battlefields, where elites try to retain control, and people challenge this authority.
Demolitions in Addis Ababa have become common as the state seeks to attract private and foreign capital to modernise the city.
Ethiopia’s urban projects are often portrayed as beneficial to all residents – but this glosses over their highly uneven impact.
Better urban planning can help stem the loss of birds by protecting and connecting the areas of habitat they need to survive.
Disasters are never entirely natural. They can be far worse if they hit unprepared cities, as Manila has just found out.
African countries are urbanising fast but without investment in public infrastructure and services, resulting in congestion, contagion and the rise of informal settlements.
Protests in Kenya reveal that a young, enlightened, urban population can drive a hard bargain with a state that is failing them.
Sanitation in Shanghai is not just about cleanliness but also power, culture and social norms.
There’s been an increase in the amount of runoff generated from rainfall as land is altered by settlement and deforestation.
African cities with over 10 million residents are getting hotter fast. Millions face disaster in these urban heat islands unless the cities start greening and adapting to climate change soon.
Rural Tanzanians and those living in the city eat unhealthy diets, but their circumstances are very different.
Urbanisation in India is causing Adivasi communities to lose connections to ancestral lands – and to traditional knowledge and belief systems. Urban Hinduisation plays a big role in this.
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Research associate at African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town
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Professor School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburg and Visiting Associate Professor, The University of Osaka, University of Pittsburgh
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Research Active Lecturer, Discipline of Psychology, Charles Darwin University, Charles Darwin University
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Research Associate, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
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Guest Lecturer, Climate Change Economics, University of Oxford & Director, Climate and Sustainability Programme, ODI Global
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Distinguished Research Fellow, Human Sciences Research Council
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Head of Urbanisation and Wellbeing, African Population and Health Research Center, African Population and Health Research Center
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Medical Entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi
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Research Scholar, Center for Sustainable Urban Development, Climate School, Columbia University
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Associate professor, Uppsala University
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Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Development Planning, UCL
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Assistant professor, University of San Francisco