Movement Johannesburg
Movement Johannesburg is a new publication that examines the historical and contemporary movements that have and continue to shape Johannesburg. Edited by Zahira Asmal and GCRO...
Read MoreApplications Open: Systems Manager/GIS Professional
A key part of GCRO’s success has been the analysis and visualisation of spatial data. This is reflected in the Analytics, Cartographies and Visualisation research theme, and various outputs such as the...
Read MoreGold mining exploits published in Scenario Journal 5
Guy Trangoš and Kerry Bobbins have published an article entitled ‘Gold Mining Exploits and the Legacies of Johannesburg’s Mining Landscapes’ in the fifth edition of the...
Read MoreGCRO presents to officials in the Indian civil service
On 19 October 2015, GCRO hosted 27 senior members of the Indian Administrative Services on an IIHS-organised study tour into urbanisation and governance in South Africa...
Read MorePolicy engagements on mega human settlements
In July 2014, the national minister of Human Settlements announced a new direction in housing policy, arguing that in order to get back to adequate scale of housing production…
Read MoreGCRO bids farewell to its founding executive director
As most of our partners and associates are by now aware, the founding executive director of the GCRO, David Everatt, has left the organisation and will now head the School of Governance...
Read MoreNew GCRO Website
In late 2014 the GCRO identified that a new website would be essential to provide easier and more intuitive access to various outputs and online data websites. After months of design and development...
Read MoreRe-visiting Africa’s Political Economy Landscape
Claudious Chikozho presented a paper entitled ‘Re-visiting Africa’s Political Economy Landscape: Comparatively Articulating the National Macro-Economic Policy and Institutional Trajectories...
Read MoreKerry Bobbins takes up research stay at DiFU
As part of her Green Talents award, researcher Kerry Bobbins took up a fully funded research stay at the German Institute of Urban Affairs (DifU) in Berlin, Germany, during May 2015...
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