City Report: Neighbourhood Characteristics and Inequality in the City of Kigali

Overview This report presents the city of Kigali’s neighbourhood characteristics and…


SHLC Event Group Picture

Urban Neighbourhood Sustainability and Impacts from Covid-19 Workshop 15th-16th of February 2023

The University of Glasgow hosted a two-day long workshop as part of the Centre for…


The Urban Century: Trends and Patterns of Urbanisation in Asia and Africa

Overview The dawn of the twenty-first century unfolded with the world entering the…


Central Business District, Johannesburg, South Africa

City Report: Neighbourhood Characteristics and Inequality in the City of Johannesburg

Overview The School of Governance at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg…


City Report: Neighbourhood Matters in Cape Town

Overview There is mounting evidence from around the world that people’s local…


“Who loses? Who chooses?”: How non-state technical and vocational education and training are regulated in Africa and Asia

Yulia Nesterova and Queralt Capsada-Munsech The new GEM report on non-state actors To develop its…


Huye, Rwanda. Credit: University of Rwanda

Huye: socio-spatial dynamics and neighbourhood patterns in a small city

This study analyses the spatial expansion of Huye city, Rwanda, the resulting neighbourhoods and…


Housing in Delft township, Cape Town, South Africa. Credit: Ivan Turok, Human Sciences Research Council

Picturing Cape Town’s Townships: Sandy Neighbourhoods, Neglected Space and Thriving Enterprise Hotspots

In this picture blog, Ivan Turok explores house building, community development and enterprise…


Central Business District, Kigali, Rwanda. Credit: Gail Wilson

Cities as Platforms for Progress: Local Drivers of Rwanda’s Success

This article was originally published by SAGE publications in ‘Local Economy: The…


Vulnerability in informal settlements, Kigali, Rwanda. Credit: Irfan Shakil, Khulna University, Bangladesh.

Rwanda’s Neighbourhoods: In the Eyes of Two Bangladeshis

In this picture blog, Irfan Shakil and Professor Tanjil Sowgat from the SHLC team in Bangladesh…