SAPI proudly announces that the partnership between the City of Johannesburg and SAPI has been taken to a new level to give form and content to the City’s Development Planning Forums. Policies, strategies and scales of development will be discussed by planners and practitioners within...
President Cyril Ramaphosa is admired for rallying citizens through the State of the National Address to be bold, reach beyond ourselves and dream of cities with adequate housing, job opportunities, public transport and places of education and health, given that seventy-five percent of South Africans...
See attachments below: IG-UTP-Handbook-Web-Version.pdf Summary-report_the_weight_of_cities_2018.pdf Leading-Change-Web-Version-01022018.pdf IG-UTP_English.pdf Factsheet_the_weight_of_cities_WEB.pdf ...
From Vision to Policy and Action/Will the New Urban Agenda Have Any Positive Influence on Governments and International Agencies?/Informality in the New Urban Agenda: From the Aspirational Policies of Integration to a Politics of Constructive Engagement/Growing Up or Growing Despair? Prospects for Multi-Sector Progresson City Sustainability...
Attached are the Wits TUB Urban Lab bursary adverts for 2019. The first to attachments are the full call (one general and one dedicated to the new Urban Management field in MUS). The other two attachments are poster versions. Do please disseminate these widely. The...
Revealed: Creating Liveable, Innovative and Sustainable Cities In line with our mission to distil, create and share knowledge on liveable and sustainable cities, the CLC launched 10 publications as part of its 10th anniversary at the recent World Cities Summit. They explore the most prevalent topics that...
Cities 2030, Cities for all: Implementing the New Urban Agenda The Ninth Session of the World Urban Forum will be the first session to focus on the implementation of the New Urban Agenda adopted in Habitat III. In the New Urban Agenda, participating States request the report of...
CALL FOR BOOK CONTRIBUTION PROPOSALS: Socio-Spatial Footprints of Islam in Johannesburg The deadline for abstracts (500 words) is the 29 September 2017. We are also open to suggestions for creative approaches to the book and contributions may take the form of shorter, narrative vignettes; longer, academic or scholarly...
Women in Cities International (WICI) is now accepting applications for board members. WICI is an exchange network for various partners concerned with gender equality issues and the place of women in cities on the five continents. Our offices are based in Canada but our board...
Dear colleagues We’d like to share the following link to a very detailed 13-module informal settlement upgrading training which we at CUBES (Centre for Urbanism and Built Environment Studies at Wits University) were involved in preparing for the National Upgrading Support Pogramme (NUSP) in South Africa....