1st Edition
City Economies in the Global South Growth, Inclusion and Sustainability
Chapter 1: Introduction
Tathagata Chatterji, Souvanic Roy, Marco Kamiya
Part 1: Roles of cities in driving economic growth
Chapter 2: Agglomeration Economies and Cities in the Global South
Ivan Turok
Chapter 3: The Role of Cities in Driving Economic Growth and Regional Economic Resilience in Indonesia
Ade Marsinta Arsani, Pradono, and Tessa Talitha
Chapter 4: Economy of São Paulo: Growth, Drivers, and Trends
Anderson Kazuo Nakano
Chapter 5: The Role of Internal Migration in Driving Economic Growth
Devarupa Gupta and Ram Babu Bhagat
Chapter 6: Processes and Practices of Economic Transformation in Small Towns of India: Emerging Perspective and Policy Issues
Soumyadip Chattopadhyay
Chapter 7: Role of Cities in Driving Economic Growth in National Contexts: Case of Singapore
Jackie Lei Tin Ong
Chapter 8: From Granary to Industry Hub: Economic Transformation in Fuyang, China
Jing Guo and Zhang Shiqi
Chapter 9: Integrating social cohesion and heritage conservation in property-led urban regeneration: The case of Panlong Tiandi Project, Shanghai
Li Fan and Huang Huang
Chapter 10: Study on the Allometric Growth and Economic Coordination Characteristics of Urban Population and Built-up Area in the Jiaozhou-Jinan Region, China
Wang Xiaoyu and Yan Hongmin
Part 2: Urban livelihoods, informality, and social inclusion
Chapter 11: Urban Informality and the Planning of Indian Cities
Gautam Bhan
Chapter 12: Save, spread and pull: Excavating city-making from the bottom up
Manoj Roy, Mohammad Faruk, and Tapos Kumar Das
Chapter 13: Urban Livelihoods and the Informal Transport Sector in Asian Cities
Iderlina Mateo-Babiano
Chapter 14: Creative Industries and Urban Economy: Potential of Indian Cities
Abdul Shaban
Chapter 15: Cities as Catalysts: Exploring Inclusive Economic Growth through Creative Festivals
Joy Sen and Tanima Bhattacharya
Chapter 16: Creating Inclusive Cities for Migrants and Women
Bhuma Raman
Chapter 17: Workers Without a City: The Imperative for Inclusive Urban Planning in Post-Pandemic Indian Cities
Aravind Unni and Shalini Sinha
Chapter 18: Bridging the Gap: Urban Welfare Programs and the Realities of Vulnerability During the Pandemic
Lohita Turlapati and Neema Kudva
Chapter 19: Gender and urban informal livelihoods
Kanchan Gandhi
Chapter 20: Gendered Realities of Informal Livelihoods
Rwitee Mandal and Shveta Mathur
Chapter 21: A Critical Assessment of Changing Livelihood Patterns of Transgender Communities: A Case of Pune City
Apoorva .A. Prabhugaonkar and Anuradha Chakrabarti
Chapter 22: Leveraging Data and Technology for Advancing Care Economies
Surabhi Tandon Mehrotra and Ankita Kapoor
Part 3: Infrastructure, Technology and Urban Economy
Chapter 23: Special Economic Zones and Cities: Green Transition, Digitalisation, and Industrial Policies
Marco Kamiya and Stefan Kratzsch
Chapter 24: Economic Development and Urban Transformation – Egypt's New Administrative Capital
Bassem Fahmy
Chapter 25: Affordable Housing and Economic Expansion: Leveraging Public-Private Partnerships in Jakarta’s Transit-Oriented Development
Agustinus Adib Abadi
Chapter 26: Small and Medium Towns in the Indian Urban System: Issues in Finance and Infrastructure
Mahalaya Chatterjee and Arup Ratan Misra
Chapter 27: Road Congestion and Related Diseconomies
Sudakshina Gupta and Aparajita Chakarabartty
Chapter 28: Emerging Paradigms in Urban Mobility in India
O.P. Agarwal
Chapter 29: Smart Cities in the Global South: How Smart Are They in Reality?
Basabi Khan Banerjee
Chapter 30: Learning from the Margin in Platform Urbanism
Tooran Alizadeh and Deepti Prasad
Chapter 31: Artificial Intelligence (AI): urban and territorial development and the possible impact on the employment sector
Ulrich Graute
Part 4: Climate Change, Sustainability, and Circular Economy
Chapter 32: Urban economies in flux: from the ‘nexus’ of challenges to a ‘connexus’ of opportunities in the global south
Joe Ravetz
Chapter 33: Strengthening Urban Economic Resilience in Central Asia
Madina Junussova, Saniya Soltybaeva and Bakhytzhan Kurmanov
Chapter 34: Informal Economy and Climate Change Adaptation in Accra, Ghana
Ishmael Adams and Sumita Ghosh
Chapter 35: Green Economy Transitions in Kolkata through the Adoption of Electric Mobility
Aditi Mitra Ghosh
Chapter 36: Navigating Climate Finance for Thriving Cities: A Lesson from Indonesia
Saut Sagala, Priskila Agatha Sulaiman, Almira Hanifa, Annisa Nabilatul Khaira
Chapter 37: Sustainable Fashion and Textile Waste Management Practices in Bandung City, Indonesia
Nurrohman Wijaya and Nabila Riyanti
Chapter 38: Inclusive Economic Growth in Southeast Asian Cities: Incorporating a Sustainable Zero Waste Agenda in Urban Development
Vijay Jagannathan
Chapter 39: Community and private sector engagement in Municipal Solid Waste Management towards achieving Circular Economy
Ramakrishna Nallathiga
Chapter 40: Smart and Inclusive Local Economy: Case of Walled City of Ahmedabad
Saswat Bandopadhyay
Chapter 41: Collaborative urban planning in times of political and economic transition: the case of Myanmar
Banashree Banerjee
Chapter 42: Shifting River, Changing Economy and Urban Transformations in and around Dhulian Town, West Bengal
Chandan Dutta and Gopa Samanta
Part 5: Governance and Policy Frameworks
Chapter 43: Rethinking Urban Planning in the Global South: Pathways to Effective Change
Brian H Roberts
Chapter 44: The Role of Local Government in Promoting Sustainable Economic Development in Kenya
Mary Waithiegeni Chege, David Gatimu, and Yoel Siegel
Chapter 45: Influence of city governance on the development of Moscow
Alla Makhrova and Fedor Kudryavstsev
Chapter 46: Economic Development through Regional Planning
Susan Cyraic & Mohammed Firoz C
Chapter 47: Urban Planning for Economic Development in Delhi
Poonam Prakash and Chetan Vaidya
Chapter 48: Urban Planning Law, Delhi Master Plan, and Informal Livelihoods
Mathew Idiculla
Chapter 49: Metropolitan Management and Informal Development: The Case of Lima, Peru
Augusto Mendoza, Alvaro Espinoza and Marco Kamiya
Chapter 50: Housing Market During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Extended Metropolitan Region of Jakarta, Indonesia: A Reflection on the Urban Governance and Economic Policy Environment
Erwin Fahmi and Ali Tranghanda
Chapter 51: Indian cities as catalysts of sustainable economic growth – Lessons from the COVID-19 crisis
Kala Sridhar
Chapter 52: Empowering Inclusive Urban Governance: Overcoming Technological and Digitisation Barriers for Grassroots Participation in City Systems and Economy
Monalisa Mohanty, Barsha Poricha, Bashabi Dasgupta, and Kasmita Basing
Chapter 53: The Economics of Wellness-Based Urbanism: How Cities in the Global South Can Benefit from Investing in Urban Wellness
Shreya Das
Conclusion
Chapter 54: Conclusion: Aligning Growth, Inclusion, and Sustainability in Urban Policy: Souvanic Roy, Marco Kamiya, Tathagata Chatterji
Biography
Tathagata Chatterji is a Professor of Urban Management and Governance at XIM University, Bhubaneswar, India. His research interest are urban policies and institutions, multilevel governance and urban economic development. His major publications include: Driving Urban Digitalisation through a National Mission– a multilevel governance perspective of India’s data smart cities strategy (2024); Challenges of urban informality in Indian smart cities (2023); and Modes of Governance and Local Economic Development: An Integrated Framework for Comparative Analysis of the Globalizing Cities of India (2016).
Souvanic Roy is Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning at Indian Institute of Engineering, Science & Technology (IIEST) Shibpur, India. His research focuses on urban transformation, urban policy for inclusive growth and housing for the urban poor. His publications include Smart City Policy of India in the book Smart Cities in Asia (Ed. Yu-Min Joo and Teck-Boon Tan, 2020), and Gentrification and Post-industrial Spatial Restructuring in Calcutta in the book Gentrification around the World (Ed. Jerome Krase and Judith N. Desena, 2020).
Marco Kamiya is a senior UN economist and UNIDO Representative for Indonesia, Timor-Leste, and the Philippines. He has four decades of multilateral experience across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, with UNIDO, UN-Habitat, development banks, and as a development consultant. He specialises in industrial policy, digital transformation, and urban economy. He has edited books on innovation and competitiveness and is an Associate Senior Fellow at ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore, and Cambridge University’s Institute for Manufacturing.
"This reader convincingly argues that urbanisation in the Global South has the potential to drive prosperity, but its benefits are neither automatic nor evenly distributed. It ambitiously aims at better integration of urban economy and social issues into urban planning and sustainable urban development."
- Frank D’hondt, Secretary General International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP), co-chair of World Urban Pavilion and co-chair of Capacity Building Committee of Habitat Professionals Forum (HPF).
“Bringing together scholars from a wide array of disciplines, including public administration, urban planning, economics, geography, and social work, this book delivers an interdisciplinary social science perspective on urban economic development in the Global South, enriched by rigorous empirical analysis. Unlike previous studies that focus primarily on single regions or sectors, this book synthesizes in 54 chapters comparative case studies from Africa, Asia, and South America, revealing cross-regional patterns and innovative policy solutions that have previously been overlooked. Key themes such as urban livelihoods, informality, social inclusion, infrastructure and technology, climate change, sustainability, circular economy, and governance are examined in depth, with each topic illustrated through contemporary case studies. This comprehensive and distinctive examination will be of particular interest to students and scholars of urbanization and city development seeking nuanced, cross-disciplinary insights into the field.”- Carlos Nunes Silva, Geographer, University of Lisbon (retired), Portugal
"A great book to inspire cities in the Asia-Pacific region on opportunities towards inclusive and resilient urban development."- Dr. Bernadia Irawati Tjandradewi
Secretary General
United Cities and Local Governments Asia-Pacific
(UCLG ASPAC)
“This book is an outcome of an international webinar series entitled Rethinking Cities convened by the Indian Habitat Forum (INHAF). It opens with a section on the role of cities in driving economic growth and includes sections on urban livelihoods and informality, infrastructure and technology, governance and policy frameworks - all through the lens of inclusion and sustainability. The 50 chapters by nearly 90 authors in the book feature evidence, insights and case studies from more than 10 countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America, including one chapter on Russia. As such, this book is an important resource for policy makers, academics and activists who seek to understand and promote how cities can become engines of economic growth while also becoming economically inclusive, socially cohesive, culturally vibrant and ecologically sensitive.”
- Marty Chen
Harvard University
WIEGO Network
"A timely analysis of urban-industrial development in the Global South"
- Olga Rataj, UNIDO Industrial Development Officer
