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We congratulate Mr. Edmore a member of the Inclusive Cities Chair as a winner in the Academia Top Young Planning Professional Professionals 2022. Congratulations!

Articles in the Media South African floods wreaked havoc because people are forced to live in disaster prone areas Rapid urbanisation and government failure to deliver adequate housing are among the driving forces behind the proliferation of informal settlements across South African cities and towns. These informal settlements are notorious...

Food security is an essential component that symbolizes an ideal urban setting. A question comes into play: who and what are the contributing factors that can boost urban food security?

The spatial challenges across the world have motivated several researchers to evolve several concepts and theories to aid spatial development, ensuring that development is undertaken so that all facets of the urban space are considered.

This paper is partly the result of the data collected within the MIAG (Migration for Inclusive African Growth) project drop that Professor Giles Mohan leads from the Open University of London and local partners from the university.

Broadly speaking, inclusive cities starts by enabling access to the city. It however, goes beyond presence and entails access to facilities and services of the city and the ability to engage with the city as a whole

The application of inclusiveness in development matters is related to the application of governance which was promoted in the 1990s by the World Bank and other development partners as a solution to the crisis of underdevelopment.  Inclusive governance means ‘’ensuring that the people at large and especially the poor, tangibly...

Under the general population increase and rapid urbanization in South Africa, there has been a congruent and perhaps drastically increase in waste production. The phenomenon is truer in the ‘city of gold’ than anywhere else across the country. Waste management in Johannesburg has become complex and difficult to manage as...