Marius Pieterse @mariusptrs
City-obsessed South African law professor researching urban governance, constitutionalism, socio-economic rights and the links between these mariuspieterse.com Johannesburg Joined August 2011-
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New open access article in Human Rights Law Review: Justiciable socio-economic rights as adaptive law for urban resilience doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/n…
The second May 2025 issue (Volume 62, Issue 7) of #UrbanStudies is out now! buff.ly/wpk3DhT Featuring articles by: @cm_leishman @satyamgoel08 @hjrouwendal @JRouwendal @mariusptrs @MengyuLiu92 @haeran_shin @claudiadiezmtz @DrMartinMuller
Corporations and cities under distress: Organised business and ‘emergency’ governance in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa by @mariusptrs and Amanda Spies buff.ly/wXpaS2B #OpenAccess #DisasterManagement #UrbanLaw
As wildfires continue to rage around Los Angeles, the climate disaster threatens to forever alter home insurance. Read the Big Take here. trib.al/8LH3AWl
New study by @mariusptrs and Amanda Spies looks into the shifting relationship dynamics between an under-capacitated African municipal government and its #PrivateSector stakeholders during a time of overlapping crises ow.ly/R0Jh50TzjFm #DisasterManagement #LocalGovernment
New #OpenAccess article by @mariusptrs and Amanda Spies: Corporations and cities under distress: Organised business and ‘emergency’ governance in Nelson Mandela Bay, #SouthAfrica ow.ly/R0Jh50TzjFm #DisasterManagement #UrbanLaw
My latest article, just out in the South African Law Journal, considers how residential building governance under sectional title (condominium) interacts with urban governance and local government law. DM if interested to read doi.org/10.47348/SALJ/…
Living the Urban Periphery offers a critical analysis of African city-regions. This book delves into the logics driving peripheral transformation, providing rich empirical data from Ethiopia, South Africa, and Ghana. tinyurl.com/yr645bn8 #urbanstudies #cityplanning #Africa
Africa's richest city, Johannesburg, is $12 billion behind on the maintenance and upgrades its power, water and road networks need trib.al/zUapGkJ
A preventable disease of which there's been outbreaks among MSM globally since 2022, for which a vaccine has existed since before then, which @HealthZA is reporting now with fatalist wonder and without a discernible plan other than "we'll see how it goes". Nothing learnt from HIV
A preventable disease of which there's been outbreaks among MSM globally since 2022, for which a vaccine has existed since before then, which @HealthZA is reporting now with fatalist wonder and without a discernible plan other than "we'll see how it goes". Nothing learnt from HIV
How may territorialization be evolving beyond state-centred cartography? Join Scott, Marius and I this Thursday at 2pm @STIAS_SA @StellenboschUni @IGLP_HarvardLaw for our 2 day mini-course “Mapping the World: Legal, Historical and Racial Geographies.”
Check out my article with @AngelavanderBe1 on adaptive law and crisis governance in Dutch and South African cities, out today
Check out my article with @AngelavanderBe1 on adaptive law and crisis governance in Dutch and South African cities, out today
Monday, SCOTUS will hear arguments on whether cities can arrest & fine people for sleeping outside. @TomHByrne & I wrote for our BU community on why criminalizing homelessness is both cruel AND ineffective policy. bu.edu/articles/2024/… #HousingNotHandcuffs #JohnsonVGrantsPass
For close observers of South Africa's municipal context you might find this statement issued after the National Treasury budget speech to be of interest - on municipal PPPs. @LizaCirolia @CroeseSylvia @mariusptrs @kruger_wikus @DangaSACities treasury.gov.za/comm_media/pre…
#UrbanLawDay2024 tackled legal frontiers for city sustainability in Stellenbosch! Read more here: 💌urbanpolicyplatform.org/2024-urban-law… ️ @islswan @mousmouti @PlessisAnel
South Africa's Secunda fuel plant is the world’s largest single-point emitter of greenhouse gas. With decarbonization likely to mean reduced operations, what will happen to the town that grew up around it? trib.al/8Gy0c94
A fascinating article on San Francisco’s urban challenges.
A fascinating article on San Francisco’s urban challenges.
Drawing insights on land-use, informal settlement& capitalist development in Durban, @mariusptrs &Thomas Coggin argue cities struggle to progressively govern land conflicts because planning systems remain rooted in property laws based on absolute ownership tinyurl.com/434nb86z
Summarising some of my research on the legal structures that regulate private sector involvement in the governance of South African cities and towns: dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/20…

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