Dreams of freedom
A single road can carry a bus route, a housing plan and a jobs strategy, or it can carry just traffic. It depends on how a city plans it.
South Africa’s coastal cities sit on immense ocean value, so why are municipalities still treating the sea as scenery, not strategy?
The South African Cities Network has spent over two decades turning city data into evidence. The next 25 years depend on what cities do with it.
Gauteng's economic planners have been focused on the metropolitan core for decades, but what if they've been looking in the wrong place to invest?
The Gauteng landscape is littered with the byproducts of excavation. Mapping these areas accurately has never been more important.
Cape Town’s Technical Dispatch Centre monitors the real-time performance of the city’s water and sanitation infrastructure, reducing false alarms and improving response times.
As tiny plastic fragments move through Gauteng’s rivers, they’re beginning to expose how fast fashion, ageing infrastructure and policy are connected.
What happens when a name becomes a symbol? Yolandi Burger’s research explores how Nelson Mandela’s legacy is written into the landscape.
Using night-time satellite imagery, GCRO researcher Yashena Naidoo is building a high-resolution view of Johannesburg’s economy, one pixel at a time.
