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African cities are confronted by large youthful labour markets with limited prospects of formal industrial employment, on the one hand, and rapid physical expansion without the resources to address the massive infrastructural requirements to support people and economies, on the other. This confluence calls for situated innovations to reimagine and redesign investments in sustainable infrastructures that are simultaneously low-carbon, labour-intensive and geared towards placemaking and civic empowerment.
Edgar Pieterse holds the NRF South African Research Chair in Urban Policy and is founding director of the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town.
Thursday, October 8
12:00 PM EDT
ONLINE ONLY
ORGANIZER: Harvard Graduate School of Design
WEBSITE: https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/loeb-lecture-edgar-pieterse/