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De-Siloing Urban Planning book cover

1st Edition

De-Siloing Urban Planning

Edited By Mennatullah Hendawy Copyright 2027
204 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines why urban planning continues to fall short of its aspirations for equity, sustainability, and resilience. It argues that contemporary challenges cannot be met without fundamentally reconfiguring how knowledge, power, and action are organized. The book present de-siloing as the essential groundwork for closing the persistent gap between planning ideals and lived urban realities.... Read more

List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Foreword by AbdouMaliq Simone

Introduction: A Global Reflection on Planning Ideals and the Reality of Siloed Planning Systems
Mennatullah Hendawy
Part I: Framing the Problem of Siloed Urban Planning
Chapter 1. Urban Geographers and the City: De-Siloing Knowledge in Response to a Fragmented Urban Reality
Nermin Dessouky
Chapter 2. Unpacking Siloed Planning Knowledge: Reflections on an Undisciplined Urban Journey
Tjark Gall
Chapter 3. De-siloing My Urban Planner’s Gaze: Confronting the Stigma of the ‘Informal’ City
Ola K. Esmail
Chapter 4. The Anatomy of the Silo: A Practitioner’s Reflection on Urban Governance in East Jerusalem
Amaal Abu Ghoush
Part II: De-siloing in the Field: Reflections on Current Practices
Chapter 5. Lessons from Swachh Survekshan in India for De-siloing Sanitation Governance: Negotiating Tools and Human Stakeholders
Nancy Madaan
Chapter 6. What the Budget Revealed That the Policy Did Not: Financial Siloing in Urban Infrastructure
Hend A. Elhawy
Chapter 7. De-siloing Urban Mobility: Lessons from Navigating Interdisciplinary Challenges to Accessibility in Greater Cairo
Nouran Azouz
Chapter 8. Istanbul’s Yedikule and Ayvansaray Hobby Gardens: A field of de-siloed urban interventions?
Binan Zanjeer
Part III: Forging Connections for De-siloed Futures
Chapter 9. De-siloing Planning Curricula: Fostering Interdisciplinary Pedagogy for Integrated Spatial and Energy Futures
Milan Husar, Hartmut Dumke, and Aleksandar Djordjevic
Chapter 10. Personal Narratives of an Interdisciplinary Palestinian Planner
Jumana Abu Sada
Chapter 11. Interdisciplinary Research Teams as Catalysts for De-siloing Urban Planning: Navigating Benefits and Obstacles
Lena Greinke and Linda Lange
Chapter 12. De-Siloing Urban Planning for Young Academics through Supra-disciplinary Professional Associations: Reflections from AESOP Young Academics Network
Sıla Ceren Varış Husar and Sophie Leemans
Chapter 13. Phenomenon-First Urbanism: De-Siloing Planning Theory Beyond the North/South Divide
Mennatullah Hendawy

Index

Biography

Mennatullah Hendawy is an interdisciplinary urban planner working at the intersections of cities, technology, and ethics. She is an assistant professor in Egypt. She is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich, the Center for Advanced Internet Studies, Impact Circles e.V., Germany. Hendawy received her Ph.D. in 2021 from the Faculty of Planning, Building Environment at the Technical University of Berlin, graded summa cum laude. Hendawy completed her MSc in Integrated Urbanism and Sustainable Design from Stuttgart University. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, in 2012.

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