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		<title>Urban Future Manifestos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MAK Center LA, Urban Future Manifestos from Robert  Ransick on Vimeo.
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		<title>South Park on the SA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[South Park South Africa from bayol on Vimeo.
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		<title>Counter-Currents: Experiments in Sustainability in the Cape Town Region</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Available from March 2010: Cape Town is undergoing a growth spurt driven along by both public and private sector investments. In the process a new city is being fashioned in front of our eyes but there are very few book length perspectives on the direction and meaning of this growth. This is particularly alarming given [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Counter–Currents Exhibition and Book launch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Book Launch and Exhibition opening
Date: 6 April 2010
Time: 5:30 for 6pm-7:30pm
Venue: Cape Institute for Architecture
Panel Discussion about the City with Edgar Pieterse (Editor &#038; Director:
African Centre for Cities, Max Price (Vice Chancellor: University of Cape
Town), Mokena Makeka (Architect), Bruce Calland
Debate One: Leadership and the City
Date: 19 April 2010
Time: 5:30 for 6pm-7:30pm
Venue: Cape Institute for Architecture
Participants: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We cannot Continue to Die like This</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Title: We cannot Continue to Die like This
Year: 2007
Medium: Video Montage
Duration: 1min15sec
By: Babak Fakhamzadeh and Ismail Farouk
Web: www.sowetouprisings.com
Avalon Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in South Africa and is the final resting place of many political and cultural activists. The cemetery is about 170ha in size and is managed by the City of Johannesburg’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God&#8217;s Land</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Highlands Hill in Yeoville is an important public space where African Indigenous religious practices dominate. This spiritual hill provides open space for hundreds of worshippers to gather in prayer on a daily basis.
Much of the religious activity occurs in contravention of the regulations set out by the city parks utility company who manage the space. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lecture: Informal Economies in Global Cities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been invited by the University of Ghent to give a lecture exploring the importance of informal economies in global cities.
In the context of a visit and social-cultural project in Ledeberg Ghent, the lecture treats the importance of understanding informal economy, socio-cultural practices and interventions in urban renewal projects, and the links between cities in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ismailfarouk.com now using Wordpress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I received an email from Blogger informing me that they are discontinuing the Blogger ftp service for custom blogs. It seems the service was not required by the majority of blogger blogs with only 0.5% of all blogs  hosted independently.
Unfortunately, my blog was one of the 0.5% and so the end of ftp [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planning for Chaos: African Cities Reader</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below find a link to my visual essay, &#8216;Planning for Chaos: Urban Regeneration and the Struggle to Formalise Trolley Pushing Activity in Downtown Johannesburg&#8217; &#8211; published in the African Cities Reader (2009):

http://www.africancitiesreader.org.za/reader/chapters/24_IF.pdf
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		<title>African Cities Reader II: Call for Submissions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Press release
&#8220;Following on the heels of the first African Cities Reader, we remain as convinced as ever that the youthful demographic, informality and non-conventional insertion in global circuits by African urbanites is a starting point for a sustained engagement and retelling of the city in contemporary Africa. The cultural, livelihood, religious, stylistic, commercial, familial, knowledge [...]]]></description>
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