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SUMMARY:Revaluing the City
DESCRIPTION:Revaluing the City: Land\, Infrastructure and the Environment as a Catalyst for Change \nAfrica is experiencing an urban revolution involving the most rapid urbanization in history\, but amid severe constraints. There are calls to grow local and national economies\, enable employment\, upgrade governance\, improve global competitiveness\, and reduce inequalities and poverty. Problems of income inequality\, economic exclusion\, food insecurity\, inadequate transportation networks\, lack of urban services\, environmental degradation\, and climate change are huge challenges for cities across Africa. \nTransforming African cities on their own terms\, and making urban formations sustainable and equitable is an unprecedented challenge. \nStudy Space IX will explore these urban growth issues in South Africa’s oldest city\, Cape Town\, a profoundly unequal city from its days of slavery in the 17th century. Although labeled the continent’s least African city\, Cape Town shares the ingredient of ‘slum urbanism’ with poverty and social stress in growing\, sprawling informal settlements. There is relentless pressure to increase the density of residential land\, and to revalue the city’s recreational\, agricultural and public land\, and ecosystem services. \nDuring the course of the week\, twenty participants will develop a wider\, ‘southern’ perspective on balancing issues related to urban growth with a focus on income inequality and economic exclusion. Guest lectures will be on a variety of topics\, including: \n— Planning equitable and sustainable development\n— Property rights and land use law\n— Affordable housing and housing finance\n— Taxation and infrastructure finance\n— Cultural heritage and historic preservation\n— Environmental law\n— Climate change \n  \nThe ACC is hosting Study Space IX on behalf of the Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth in the College of Law at Georgia State University\, Atlanta\, USA. The Center’s ninth intensive study week gives professionals\, practitioners and academics an opportunity to sharpen their understanding of metropolitan affairs in conversation with local experts. Previous Study Spaces have been held in Barcelona\, Bogota\, Denver\, Rio de Janeiro\, Istanbul\, Medellin\, Panama and Warsaw.
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LOCATION:UCT Graduate School of Business\,\, V&A Waterfront\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Kapuscinski Development Lecture: Aromar Revi
DESCRIPTION:Putting the Urban at the Heart of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals \nThe Millennium Development Goals are expiring and need to be replaced with a new set of globally applicable and locally implementable Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030. Climate Change negotiations are stalled and need a more determined and pragmatic approach if run-away impacts are to be avoided. It is clear that a different economic\, social and human development path must be established to ensure greater sustainability and inclusion of all citizens into productive economic life and well-being. Cities and regions across the world provide the opportunity to do this. Africa and Asia are at the centre of the urban\, social and economic transitions that the world will witness over the next two decades. It is important that we see political imaginations and leadership from these geographies that address local\, regional and global themes. \nThe lecture will interest policy makers\, activists\, business leaders\, journalists and academics.  \nAbout the speaker: \nAromar Revi is Director of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) India’s prospective independent national University for Research & Innovation addressing its challenges of urbanisation. He has been a senior advisor to various ministries of the Government of India\, and has consulted for a wide range of UN\, multilateral\, bilateral development and private sector institutions. He is a member of the Leadership Council of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)\, co-chair of its urban thematic group\, and a Fellow of the India China Institute at the New School\, New York. A global expert on sustainable urban development\, he has co-led a successful international campaign for an urban Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) as part of the UN’s post-2015 development agenda\, which brought the major global urban institutions and over 200 cities and institutions together. He has led over 100 major research\, consulting and implementation assignments in India and abroad. He has helped structure\, design and review development investments in excess of $8 billion\, including housing and urban development plans for two-thirds of India’s 29 states in the 1990s. Besides being part of multiple international projects in 6 countries\, he has worked on 3 of the world’s 10 largest cities\, and with communities across 25 Indian states. A leading expert on Global Environmental Change especially on Climate Change adaptation and mitigation\, he is one of the Coordinating Lead Authors for the Urban Areas section of the IPCC 5th Assessment report (2014)\, and co-PI of an international Climate Adaptation research programme than spans India and Africa. He is one of South Asia’s leading disaster mitigation and management experts and has led emergency teams to assess\, plan and execute recovery and rehabilitation programmes for 10 major earthquake\, cyclone\, surge and flood events affecting over 5 million people\, and serves on the Advisory Board of the UNISDR Scientific & Technical Advisory Group and its Global Assessment of Risk. \nThe Kapuscinski Development Lectures are a series of high-level lectures focused on development-related issues organized jointly by the United Nations Development Programme\, the European Community and leading universities and think-tanks. There have been over 50 lectures by top development thinkers since 2009. The lectures honour Ryszard Kapuscinski\, the celebrated Polish writer and journalist who covered developing countries. Past lectures have been delivered by\, among others\, Aung San Suu Kyi\, Ashraf Ghani\, Jagdish Bhagwati\, Helen Clark\, Jan Pronk\, Jeffrey Sachs\, José Antonio Ocampo\, Kamal Dervis\, Mark Malloch-Brown\, Michelle Bachelet and Paul Collier.  See: http://kapuscinskilectures.eu \nThe Kapuscinski Development Lecture in Cape Town is a joint initiative of the European Commission\, the United Nations Development Programme\, the African Centre for Cities\, and the University of Cape Town. The project is funded by the European Commission. \nPlease take your seats from 5:45 as the lecture is being streamed live and will start at 6:00 promptly. \nRSVP maryam.waglay@uct.ac.za using subject line “Kapuscinski Development Lecture” \n  \n            
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/kapuscinski-development-lecture/
LOCATION:Lecture Hall 3B\, New Snape Building\, University of Cape Town\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Political and Affective Ecologies of the City
DESCRIPTION:In her talk\, Dr Karen Till will explore the limitations and possibilities of considering urban ecology as a means to ‘think the city differently’. Her starting premise is simple: how might we begin to challenge dominant paradigms in urban theory\, including resilience and neoliberal speculative urbanisms\, that define ground merely as property and contain time according to desire and fear? Using examples from cities around the world\, the talk will address the concept of the wounded city and a place-based ethics of care according to intersecting urban temporal and spatial meshworks that include: social and material environments\, relational networks\, local pathways\, alternative exchange systems\, affective ecologies\, enacted assemblages\, and urban ecosystem wholeness. \nAbout the speaker \nDr. Karen E. Till is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the National University of Ireland at Maynooth. A cultural and urban geographer\, Karen is working on a book entitled ‘Wounded Cities’. It is a comparative ethnographic project about cities marked by histories of state-perpetrated violence\, with case studies in Berlin\, Bogota\, Cape Town and Dublin. \nRequired Reading \n[button link=”https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Till_KE_2012_WoundedCities_PG.pdf” style=”download” color=”red” window=”yes”]Wounded Cities 2012[/button]
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LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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