Shaping Africa’s urban future together

 

Shaping Africa’s urban future together >> 

The City We Need Now! Africa Campaign towards Africities 2022

 

The City We Need Now! 

Africa Campaign towards Africities 2022

Cities and Pandemics: Towards a More Just, Green and Healthy Future

 Cities and Pandemics: Towards a More Just, Green and Healthy Future

The sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO) for Cities report

 

The sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO) for Cities report >>

AFRICA'S URBANISATION DYNAMICS 2020 Africapolis, Mapping a New Urban Geography

 

AFRICA'S URBANISATION DYNAMICS 2020

Africapolis, Mapping a New Urban Geography  >>

Multi-Level Governance for Effective Urban Climate Action in the Global South

 

Multi-Level Governance for Effective Urban Climate Action in the Global South >>

Global State of National Urban Policy 2021

 

Global State of National Urban Policy 2021 >>

Visualise urbanisation in Africa

 

Visualise urbanisation in Africa >>

Politics and Community-based Research: Perspectives from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg

 

Politics and Community-based Research: Perspectives from YeovilleStudio, Johannesburg

V RECENSEAMENTO GERAL DA POPULAÇÃO E HABITAÇÃO (RGPH – 2021)

 

 

V RECENSEAMENTO GERAL DA POPULAÇÃO E HABITAÇÃO (RGPH – 2021)

RESULTADOS PRELIMINARES

UN-HABITAT_Climate Action for Cities

 

African Statistics Day 2021 - 18 Nov.

 

African Statistics Day 2021>>

International Conference 'Local Governance in a time of Global Emergencies'

 

Conference website >> 

6th International Conference Urban e-Planning

 

 Conference website >> 

International Geographical Congress 2022

 

 2022 - (Extraordinary) International Geographical Congress

'Time for Geographers'

Paris, France, 18 - 22 July 2022

Congress website: https://www.ugiparis2022.org/ 

 

IGU COMMISSION GEOGRAPHY OF GOVERNANCE - SESSIONS >>>

Regional Representation for Africa: 2020 - 2023 Strategic Plan

 

Regional Representation for Africa: 2020 - 2023 Strategic Plan

PLANEAMENTO URBANO EM ÁFRICA, 2021-2022

 

Universidade de Lisboa

 Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território

 Ano letivo 2021-2022

 Unidade curricular (opção) 

  PLANEAMENTO URBANO EM ÁFRICA, 2021-2022 >>  

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• Viagem de estudo no ano letivo 2018/2019 – São Tomé e Príncipe (25 de junho a 2 de julho de 2019) »»»  

•  Viagem de estudo no ano letivo 2017/2018 – Cabo Verde -> (22 a 29 junho de 2018) >>> 

•  Viagem de estudo no ano letivo 2014/2015 – Cabo Verde -> (5 a 12 setembro de 2015) >>> 

2020 IGU Commission Excellence Award

 

The IGU Commission on the Geography of Governance (IGU-CGoG) received the "2020 IGU Commission Excellence Award"

 

More information here: https://sites.google.com/site/igugeogov/igu-award-2021

 

The IGU-CGoG has a particular interest on issues of Local and Urban Governance in Africa, namely on Urban Planning.

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If you wish to become Corresponding Member of the IGU Commission on Geography of Governance, please fill the form here: https://forms.gle/aVnvSzTZyTGhNgZo8 

Lecture, "Pancho Guedes and the Hybrid Architecture of Mozambique, Brazil, and Portugal"

 

Rethinking Urbanism - lessons from Post Colonialism and the Global South

 

Online book conversation with Garth Myers, author of "Rethinking Urbanism - lessons from post colonialism and the global south", tomorrow Friday, June 18th 3:00-4:30pm CET with Martin Oteng-Ababio, Jennifer Robinson, Jonathan Silver and Armelle Choplin.

Zoom Link: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/65130437995

 

Bamako. De la ville à l’agglomération

 

BERTRAND M. (2021).  Bamako. De la ville à l’agglomération, Marseille, IRD Éditions, 341 p.

 https://www.editions.ird.fr/produit/632/9782709928908/bamako

Bill Freund's Autobiography - An historian’s passage to Africa

 

INVITATION

 

Wits University Press & Transformation Journal - Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa

 

JOIN US

for the launch of the late Bill Freund's Autobiography - An historian’s passage to Africa

 

Scholars in the field of history and economics, Colin Bundy and Lumkile Mondi,

will talk together with gender scholar Robert Morrell, who was also a colleague and friend of Freund's,  about the late historian's contribution to African socio-economic history

 

DATE: Thursday 10 June 2021

@ 18:00 South African time

 

JOIN THE ZOOM EVENT HERE

 

ZOOM LINK: https://payg.rocketseed.net/servlet/link/18140/118917/16202334/416061

 

Scimago Journal & Country Rank - IJEPR

 

 IJEPR in Quartile 2 in 2020 - URBAN STUDIES

  IJEPR in Quartile 2 in 2020 - GEOGRAPHY, PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT

 Scimago Journal & Country Rank >>

IGU Thematic Conference: Heritage Geographies: Politics, Uses and Governance of the Past

 

IGU Thematic Conference

Heritage Geographies: Politics, Uses and Governance of the Past

Lecce, Italy , 27 - 28 May 2021

Organizing Commissions

• Commission on Political Geography

• Commission on Cultural Approaches to Geography

• Commission on the History of Geography

• Commission on the Geography of Tourism, Leisure and Global Change

• Commission on Toponymy

• Commission on the Geography of Governance

Scientific organization

Elena Dell'Agnese, Università di Milano-Bicocca

Fabio Pollice, Università del Salento

Scientific committee

Hamzah Bin Muzaini, National University of Singapore

Louis Dupont, Université Paris-Sorbonne

Je-Hun Ryu, Korea National University of Education

Romeo Hanxhari, University of Tirana

Peter Jordan, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Virginie Mamadouh, University of Amsterdam

Claudio Minca, Macquarie

Dieter Müller, Umeå universitet

Alec Murphy, University of Oregon

Velvet Nelson, Sam Houston State University

Carlos Nunes Silva, University of Lisbon

Cosimo Palagiano, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"

Jarkko Saarinen, University of Oulu

Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg, Università di Milano-Bicocca

Anna Trono, Università del Salento

Local organization: Federica Epifani, Patrizia Miggiano, Sara Nocco, Antonella Rinella, Marco Sponziello

Web: http://conference.unisalento.it/ocs/index.php/heritagegeographies/heritagegeographies

Info: heritagegeographies@unisalento.it

Themes for Sessions and Papers

• 1. Heritage governance

• 2. Heritage and Urban Planning

• 3. Heritage-telling

• 4. Patrimonialization of cultural heritage

• 5. Heritage and ICTs

• 6. Memories from the territories and educational strategies

• 7. Heritage geopolitics

• 8. Heritage and knowledge economy

• 9. Heritage for consumption: tourists and tourism

• 10. Heritage and toponymy

• 11. Heritages, Mediterranean cultures and Southern thinking

• 12. Dark Heritage (from below)

• Conference website >>>

• Conference e-mail: heritagegeographies@unisalento.it

• Sessions description >>>

• Call for abstracts >>>

• Call for Sessions on 'Local and Urban Governance' (Sessions 12 to 15) >>>

IGU Commission Geography of Governance - contact

For additional information regarding the 4 sessions promoted by the IGU Commission on Geography of Governance, contact: igu.geogov@gmail.com

• Final Conference Program »»»

• Sessions on Local and Urban Governance and Heritage »»»

• Final Round Table - Talk on Governance of Heritage »»»