• Essential City Links

    • 360 Cities Largest collection of panoramic images of cities on the web
    • A Town Square Conversations About Where We Live – a nice blog raising key issues about the link between urban design and sustainable development
    • Africa Centre Based in the historic Long Street, in the Cape Town Central City, the Africa Centre brings together arts practitioners from Africa to explore the role, identity and transcience of contemporary artistic practice and audience perception
    • African Centre for Cities Based at the University of Cape Town, and with good links to cities throughout Africa, the Centre facilitates critical urban research and policy discourses for the promotion of vibrant, democratic and sustainable urban development in the global South from
    • C40 Cities A group of the world’s largest cities committed to tackling climate change
    • Cape Town Partnership A public-private partnership in the Cape Town Central City
    • CEOs for Cities A US cross-sector network of urban leaders dedicated to building and sustaining the next generation of American cities
    • Cities Alliance A global coalition of cities and their development partners committed to scaling up successful approaches to poverty reduction
    • Creative Cape Town Cape Town’s creative industries programme
    • Gehl Architects Cities for people
    • Greg Clark Making cities and regions work
    • International Downtown Association Promotes vital and livable urban centers by providing support to business improvement districts and communities
    • IPPUC Curitiba Urban Research and Planning Institute
    • ITDP Institution for Transportation and Development Policy – founded in 1985 to promote environmentally sustainable and socially equitable transportation worldwide
    • Men about Town Mokena Makeka and Rory Williams are Men about Town in a provocative new weekly column about Cape Town
    • Mobility Magazine A southern African publication for policy- and decision-makers in all spheres of government, planners and engineers, and transport users
    • OECD LEED Programme Innovative ideas relating to economic development, entrepreneurship, local governance and the social economy
    • Project for Public Spaces Placemaking for Communities
    • Shanghai Expo 2010 Better city, better life
    • Silicon Cape A community organisation recently established to attract and bring together local and foreign investors, the brightest technical talent, and the most promising entrepreneurs, to foster the creation and growth of world-class global IP start-up companies
    • SkyscraperCity A forum for discussion about cities
    • South African Cities Network A network of South African cities and partners that encourages the exchange of information, experience and best practices on urban development and city management
    • Sustainable Network Role of business districts in promoting sustainable development
    • TED lectures The power of cities
    • The City Fix An online resource for sustainable transport news, advocacy and “best practice” solutions
    • UN Habitat For a better urban future
    • unlike.net The definitive city guide for the mobile generation
    • Urban LandMark Making urban land markets work for the poor
    • Urban Renewal A Cape Town-based blog about design, music and culture
    • World Design Capital Leveraging design to improve the social, cultural and economic life of cities
    • World Streets The voices of sustainable transportation
    • World Urban Forum 5 The right to the city-bridging the urban divide
    • Zunia Urban development knowledge exchange