The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South

Author:   Gautam Bhan ,  Smita Srinivas ,  Vanessa Watson (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138094130


Pages:   396
Publication Date:   18 September 2019
Format:   Paperback
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The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South offers an edited collection on planning in parts of the world which, more often than not, are unrecognised or unmarked in mainstream planning texts. In doing so, its intention is not to fill a ‘gap’ that leaves this ‘mainstream’ unquestioned but to re-theorise planning from a deep understanding of ‘place’ as well as a commitment to recognise the diverse modes of practice that come within it. The chapters thus take the form not of generalised, ‘universal’ analyses and prescriptions, but instead are critical and located reflections in thinking about how to plan, act and intervene in highly complex city, regional and national contexts. Chapter authors in this Companion are not all planners, or are planners of very different kinds, and this diversity ensures a rich variety of insights, primarily based on cases, to emphasise the complexity of the world in which planning is expected to happen. The book is divided into a framing Introduction followed by five sections: planning and the state; economy and economic actors; new drivers of urban change; landscapes of citizenship; and planning pedagogy. This volume will be of interest to all those wanting to explore the complexities of planning practice and the need for new theories of knowledge from which to draw insight to face the challenges of the 21st century.

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Author:   Gautam Bhan ,  Smita Srinivas ,  Vanessa Watson (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9781138094130


ISBN 10:   1138094137
Pages:   396
Publication Date:   18 September 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction Section I Perspectives on Ch List of figures and tables List of tables List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Gautam Bhan, Smita Srinivas and Vanessa Watson Section One: Planning and/as the state Spatial rationalities and the challenges for planners in the New Urban Agenda for Sustainable Development Clive Barnett and Susan Parnell Growth and inclusion in the mega-cities of India, South Africa and Brazil Patrick Heller Urban planning at a crossroads: A critical assessment of Brazil's City Statute, 15 years later Edesio Fernandes African urbanisation and democratisation: Public policy, planning and public administration dilemmas Dele Olowu Data on rapidly growing cities – Lessons from planning and public policies for housing precarity in Brazil Eduardo Marques A ‘peripheries’ view of planning failures in Kolkata and Hyderabad in India Sudeshna Mitra Section Two: Economy and economic actors Urbanisation and development: Reinforcing the foundations Ivan Turok Planning Special Economic Zones in China Qianqi Shen Planning in the midst of informality: An application to youth employment programmes in Egypt Ragui Assaad No Global South in economic development Smita Srinivas The informal economy in cities of the global south: Challenges to the planning lexicon Caroline Skinner and Vanessa Watson Urban finance: Strengthening an overlooked foundation of urban planning Paul Smoke Section Three: New drivers of change: Ecology, infrastructure and technology Urban climate adaptation in the global South: Justice and inclusive development in a new planning domain Eric Chu, Isabelle Anguelovski and Debra Roberts Social-environmental dilemmas of planning an ‘ecological civilisation’ in China Jia-Ching Chen Open space provision and environmental preservation strategies: A case study in Brazil Mônica A. Haddad Cities and urban food poverty in Africa Jane Battersby Technology and spatial governance in cities of the global South Nancy Odendaal Balancing accessibility with aspiration: Challenges in urban transport planning in the global South Anjali Mahendra Section Four: Landscapes of citizenship ‘Terra Nullius’ and planning: Land, law and identity in Israel/Palestine Oren Yiftachel The Intent to Reside: Residence in the auto-constructed city Gautam Bhan, Amlanjyoti Goswami and Aromar Revi Living as logistics: Tenuous struggles in the remaking of collective AbdouMaliq Simone Informal worker organising and mobilisation: Linking global with local advocacy Chris Bonner, Françoise Carré, Martha Alter Chen and Rhonda Douglas Is there a typical urban violence? Fernando M. Carrión and Alexandra Velasco Urban upgrading to reduce violence in informal settlements – The case of Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading (VPUU) in Monwabisi Park, Cape Town, South Africa Mercy Brown-Luthango and Elena Reyes Starting from here: Challenges in planning for better health care in Tanzania Maureen Mackintosh and Paula Tibandebage Section Five: Planning pedagogies Learning from the city: A politics of urban learning in planning Colin McFarlane Campus in camps: Knowledge production and urban interventions in refugee camps Alessandro Petti At the coalface, take 3: Re-imagining community-university engagements from here Tanja Winkler Co-learning the city – Towards a pedagogy of poly-learning and planning praxis Adriana Allen, Rita Lambert and Christopher Yap Learning to learn again: Restoring relevance to development experiments through a whole systems approach Jigar Bhatt Index

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This collection reveals an incredible diversity in thought and practice in the urban planning field, across the rich range of sectors, planning issues, and geographies represented. Planning is always context dependent and this volume helps distill lessons across cases while appreciating differences. It highlights guidance for fast-growing cities in the global south that stems from their own experiences rather than discredited notions of universal best practice. It is imperative reading for everyone focusing on research and practice in the global south. - Aniruddha Dasgupta, Global Director, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, USA


This collection reveals an incredible diversity in thought and practice in the urban planning field, across the rich range of sectors, planning issues, and geographies represented. Planning is always context dependent and this volume helps distill lessons across cases while appreciating differences. It highlights guidance for fast-growing cities in the global south that stems from their own experiences rather than discredited notions of universal best practice. It is imperative reading for everyone focusing on research and practice in the global south. - Aniruddha Dasgupta, Global Director, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, USA


Author Information

Gautam Bhan is Lead, Academics and Research, at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and is most recently the author of In the Public’s Interest: Evictions, Citizenship and Inequality in Contemporary Delhi (2016). Smita Srinivas is an economic development scholar with a PhD from MIT. She is Visiting Professor of Economics and IKD Centre, Open University, UK, and Senior Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science. Her last book Market Menagerie (Stanford University Press 2012) won the EAEPE 2015 Myrdal Prize. Vanessa Watson is professor of city planning at the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and is a Fellow of this University. She holds degrees, including a PhD, from South African universities and the Architectural Association of London and is on the executive of the African Centre for Cities.

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