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These are events that occurred more than 6 months ago.

November 2011

Higher Education in GCR: Discussion Groups

October 2011

Launch of the GCRO State of the GCR 2011
Ahmed Kathrada Foundation Non-racialism Conference

September 2011

"Faces of the City" series: City and Nation in an African Context: National Identity in Kingshasa
"Faces of the City" series: Prof. Ricky Burdett-Living in the Endless City

August 2011

"Faces of the City" series: Is this our future (2)? Further learning from São Paulo
"Faces of the City" series: Collective political subjects in the urban peripheries
"Faces of the City" series: The post-apartheid bureaucracy: inner dynamics of state weakness

July 2011

"Faces of the City" series: African architecture(s), historiography & transculturation: Putting Pancho
GCRO RAC

June 2011

Special Cities Seminar: Managing political space: party practices, marginalised people’s agency and the governance of rural West Bengal
"Faces of the City" series: Sharing an emerging narrative on South Africa’s space economy
"Faces of the City" series: Poor peoples’ housing and the shaping of Johannesburg
"Faces of the City" series: A plate of loose sand: Chinese Spaces in the City of Johannesbu​rg
"Faces of the City" series: Playing the City: Urban Games

May 2011

CANCELLED "Faces of the City" series: Climate Change - South Africa's 3rd wave of Environmental Governance: CANCELLED
"Faces of the City" series: Fanonian Perspectives on Post-Apartheid South Africa
"Faces of the City" series: State Interventions and Community Responses: A Case Study of Alexandra
"Faces of the City" series: Masculinities in Motion: Mobility, The Township and the Spectacular
"Faces of the City" series: Youth migration and access to employment in the city

April 2011

"Faces of the City" series: Towards Zero Deprivation – the role of spatial poverty targeting in creating a more inclusive Johannesburg
"Faces of the City" series: Diepsloot

March 2011

"Faces of the City" series: Food Security, Health and Poverty: Design Criteria for Resilient South African Cities
RAC

December 2010

GCRO office closed

November 2010

Launch of the GCRO Provocations series: ‘The decanting of acid mine drainage in the Gauteng City-Region’ by Prof Terence McCarthy
'Faces of the City' Seminar: Restoration of a Colonial Landscape: Negotiating Strategies for a Salvador Da Bahia, Brazil Tourist Economy
Faces of the City: Seminar Prof. Philip Harrison - Representations of JHB and book launch

October 2010

"Faces of the City" series - “The Joburg Gini”.
Faces of the City: Panel Discussion - Fietas
UJ Faculty of Humanities: Public debate -South African Civil Society and Xenophobia
"Faces of the City" series - “Why it’s difficult to change urban planning laws in African countries”
"Faces of the City" series: Bad Buildings in Inner City Johannesburg

September 2010

"Faces of the city seminar" series: Making the Invisible Visible - a Story of the Central Methodist Church
GCRO GIS website launch: GPG MECs and HoDs session
GCRO GIS website launch: Government officials involved in planning session
GCRO GIS website launch: Government GIS users session

August 2010

Faces of the City: Gated communities
Focus on Kliptown: site visit
Focus on Kliptown: panel discussion
"Faces of the City" series: Loving and leaving: intersections with RDP housing across time and space

July 2010

Regional territorial policies and strategies for equity, sustainability and economic efficiency: OECD reflections
OECD 2nd mission to the GCR
3rd GCRO RAC meeting

May 2010

2nd GCRO RAC meeting

March 2010

World Urban Forum
GCRO Board Meeting
GCRO Research Advisory Committee - Inaugural meeting
Think metropole workshop – how large city-region thinking and action have been changing in diverse ways
GCRO seminar on Industrialisation and sustainability in Gauteng: contradiction or coherence?