Edgar Pieterse is founding director of the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town and holds the South African Research Chair in Urban Policy. His research and teaching explore urban development politics, everyday culture, publics, radical social economies, responsive design and adaptive governance systems. He publishes different kinds of text, curates exhibitions, as well as orients difficult conversations about pressing urban problems. He is consulting editor for Cityscapes – an international occasional magazine/platform on urbanism in the global South. He has published two books, City Futures(Zed, 2008) and New Urban Worlds(Polity, 2017, with AbdouMaliq Simone), as well as eight co-edited books, dealing with a wide-ranging set of topics related to contemporary urbanism and place-making.