MPhil in Urban Infrastructure

UCT Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering, UCT Upper Campus, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Convener: Dr. M Brown-Luthango. 20 HEQF credits at level 9. Course outline: Sustainable livelihood, participation, governance, partnerships, development action plans, survey methods.

Producing Luanda

UCT Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering, UCT Upper Campus, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Antonio Tomas is a research fellow at Makerere Institute of Social Research, in Kampala. He received his doctoral degree in Anthropology from Columbia University, in New York.

Informal Settlement Upgrading

UCT Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering, UCT Upper Campus, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

City planning and growth strategies in South Africa have quite simply been unable to account effectively for the prevalence of informal shelter and employment strategies.

Food Security and Place-Based Governance

UCT Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering, UCT Upper Campus, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Traditional responses to food insecurity are unable to mitigate the growing challenge of limited and inappropriate food access. Although generally overlooked in traditional approaches to food security, this challenge is felt most severely in cities, particularly African cities.