Building the capacity of urban learners and practitioners through public lectures, short term courses and residency programs.
“The state, urban development and planning the large metropolis in uncertain times. Ideas and practice in comparative perspective”
Alan has research experience in Brasil, France, France, Tanzania, and South Africa as well as NGO, post-apartheid government, and consulting experience. He was a co-founder of Planact (NGO) and which he remains associated. Recent publications include “Grounding southern city theory in time and space’, in S Parnell and S Oldfield (eds) Routledge Handbook on Cities of the South (London 2014) 21-36, “Tshwane and spaces of power in South Africa’, Chapter 4 in Goran Therborn (ed) Cities and Power: Worldwide Perspectives (London: Routledge 2016) 29-39; and “Challenges of university – city relationships: reflections from Wits University and Johannesburg; in L Bank, N Cloete and F van Schalkwyk (eds) Anchored in Place: Rethinking the University and Development in South Africa (Cape Town: African Minds, 2018).
“Abuja Nigeria: The Paradox of Designing and Building for Peace in the Age of Provincial Rebellions”
Nnamdi Elleh is Professor of Architecture, History and Theory. He was trained as an architect and received his PhD in art history from Northwestern University in Illinois, USA. He was a Fulbright Teaching-Research Scholar at the University of Cape Town, where he studied post-apartheid nationalist inspired architecture in South Africa. Professor Elleh’s research focuses on modern and contemporary architecture as a diverse, multi-centered, regional and localized experience in different parts of the world.