Glensburg Cities Institute
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| Abbreviation | GCI |
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| Nickname | Glensburg Institute |
| Predecessor | African Urban Institute |
| Established | 2016 |
| Type | Think tank |
| Purpose | Urban Development |
| Headquarters | Johannesburg |
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Director | Archimedes Muzenda |
Parent organization | Glensburg |
| Website | glensburg |
Formerly called | African Urban Institute |
The Glensburg Cities Institute is an African urban development think tank headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa. A subsidiary of Glensburg, Glensburg Cities Institute conducts research on transformation of cities towards prosperity, sustainability, and inclusiveness. The Glensburg Cities Institute also serves as the secretariat of the African professional body of regional and urban planners, the African Planning Society in Johannesburg.
History[edit]
The institute was founded in October 2016 in Johannesburg, South Africa as African Urban Institute. As a subsidiary of Glensburg, the institute was renamed Glensburg Cities Institute in January 2020. In the same year, Archimedes Muzenda was appointed director of the institute.
Publications[edit]
The Glensburg Cities Institute publishes numerous commentaries, policy briefs, discussion papers, and reports on urbanisation in Africa. Its journal, the Glensburg Cities Review (GCR) is the primary publishing arm of the institute.[1] Through its publishing house, Glensburg Press, the institute also publishes books on various topics of urbanisation across the world. Some notable books include Dystopia: How the Tyranny of Specialists Fragment African Cities (2019) by Archimedes Muzenda, Postmodern Cities (2023).
Policy Influence[edit]
In 2017, the Glensburg Cities Institute was instrumental in the assessment of UN-Habitat through a panel that was selected by the Secretary-General of United Nations, António Guterres.[2] Following the recommendation of the panel to establishes a separate entity called the UN Urban,[3] the Institute made recommendations against such proposal arguing that it would decapacitate the UN-Habitat.[4][5] Eventually, the proposal to establish the UN Urban was dropped by the UN Secretary-General. The Glensburg Cities Institute has been critical of emerging scholarship on urbanism in the global south, known as "Southern Urbanism".[6][7] The institute has argued to conceptualise cities in terms of postmodern urbanism instead of basing on geographies.[8]
See also[edit]
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References[edit]
- ↑ "Glensburg Cities Review (GCR)". Glensburg Cities Review Journal.
- ↑ "Secretary-General Appoints Independent Panel to Assess, Enhance Effectiveness of UN-Habitat after Adoption of New Urban Agenda". United Nations. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
- ↑ "UN-Habitat Welcomes the High Level Panel Report". United Nations Human Settlements Programme. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
- ↑ "UN Urban: The Politics of language in Human Settlements Financing". Glensburg Cities Institute.
- ↑ "Governments, Stakeholders Discuss UN-Habitat Reform". International Institute for Sustainable Development. 6 September 2017.
- ↑ Parnell, Susan (2016). Oldfield, Sophie, ed. The Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South (1st ed.). Routledge. pp. 68–74. ISBN 9780415789509. Search this book on
- ↑ Schindler, Seth (2017). "Towards a paradigm of Southern urbanism". City. 21 (1): 47–64. doi:10.1080/13604813.2016.1263494. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Muzenda, Archimedes (1 September 2021). "Southern Urbanism: The (Non) Exceptionality of Urbanism in Africa". Glensburg Cities Review. 1 (2): 1–14 – via Glensburg Cities Institute.
Sources[edit]
- Muzenda, Archimedes. Dystopia: How the Tyranny of Specialists Fragment African Cities (2019).
- Parnell, Susan and Oldfield, Sophie. The Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South (2016).
- Silva, Carlos N. Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa (2015).
- Shpilsky, Benjamin E. Do Think Tanks Matter: Assessing the Impact of Public Policy Institutes (2019).
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