Publications

The co-creation approach of Mistra Urban Futures forms the basis for the publications of the Centre, with academic as well as practitioner- and policy-oriented reports, papers, and briefs.

Greyling, S., Patel, Z., & Davison, A. (2017). Urban sustainability disjunctures in Cape Town: learning the city from the inside and out. Local Environment, 22(sup1), 52–65. doi:10.1080/13549839.2016.1223621
Platform: Cape Town, GlobalType: Scientific article (peer-reviewed)Published year:
Patel, Z., Greyling, S., Simon, D., Arfvidsson, H., Moodley, N., Primo, N. & Wright, C. (2017). Local responses to global sustainability agendas: learning from experimenting with the urban sustainable development goal in Cape Town, Sustainability Science, 12: 785.
Platform: Cape Town, GlobalType: Scientific article (peer-reviewed)Published year:
Sitas, R (2017). Cultural Policy and the Power of Place, South Africa. In The Routledge Companion to Global Cultural Policy (Ed). Chapter 36. London: Routledge.
Platform: Cape TownType: Book chapterPublished year:
Cirolia, L. R. (2017). Negotiating Cities: Nairobi and Cape Town. In J. Rokem and C. Boano (Eds.) Urban Geopolitics: Rethinking Planning in Contested Cities. Routledge.
Platform: Cape TownType: Book chapterPublished year:
Culwick, C., Patel, Z. (2017). United and divided responses to complex urban issues: insights on the value of a transdisciplinary approach to flooding risk. Area, 49(1), 43–51.
Platform: Cape TownType: Scientific article (peer-reviewed)Published year:
Arfvidsson, H., Simon, D., Oloko, M., & Moodley, N. (2017). Engaging with and measuring informality in the proposed Urban Sustainable Development Goal. African Geographical Review, 36(1), 100–114. doi:10.1080/19376812.2015.1130636
Platform: Gothenburg, Cape Town, Kisumu, GlobalType: Scientific article (peer-reviewed)Published year:
Brown-Luthango, M., Reyes, E., & Gubevu, M. (2017). Informal settlement upgrading and safety: experiences from Cape Town, South Africa. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 32(3), 471–493. doi:10.1007/s10901-016-9523-4
Platform: Cape TownType: Scientific article (peer-reviewed)Published year:
Cirolia, L.R. & Berrisford, S. (2017) 'Negotiated planning': Diverse trajectories of implementation in Nairobi, Addis Ababa, and Harare. Habitat International 59 (2017) 71-79
Platform: Cape TownType: Scientific article (peer-reviewed)Published year:
Cirolia, L. R., & Smit, W. (2017). Fractured approaches to urban transformation: Analysing parallel perspectives in South Africa. Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa, 95(1), 63–84. doi:10.1353/trn.2017.0022
Platform: Cape TownType: Scientific article (peer-reviewed)Published year:
Brown-Luthango, M and Reyes E (2017) “Urban Upgrading to reduce violence in informal settlements – the case of Violence Prevention through rban Upgrading (VPUU) in Monwabisi Park, Cape Town in “ Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South, by Gautam Bhan (ed),‎ Smita Srinivas (ed) and Vanessa Watson (ed). Routledge.
Platform: Cape TownType: Book chapterPublished year: