1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South

Edited By Gautam Bhan, Smita Srinivas, Vanessa Watson Copyright 2018
    414 Pages
    by Routledge

    414 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    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.

    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

    1. Spatial rationalities and the challenges for planners in the New Urban Agenda for Sustainable Development Clive Barnett and Susan Parnell
    2. Growth and inclusion in the mega-cities of India, South Africa and Brazil Patrick Heller
    3. Urban planning at a crossroads: A critical assessment of Brazil's City Statute, 15 years later Edesio Fernandes
    4. African urbanisation and democratisation: Public policy, planning and public administration dilemmas Dele Olowu
    5. Data on rapidly growing cities – Lessons from planning and public policies for housing precarity in Brazil Eduardo Marques
    6. A ‘peripheries’ view of planning failures in Kolkata and Hyderabad in India Sudeshna Mitra
    7. Section Two: Economy and economic actors

    8. Urbanisation and development: Reinforcing the foundations Ivan Turok
    9. Planning Special Economic Zones in China Qianqi Shen
    10. Planning in the midst of informality: An application to youth employment programmes in Egypt Ragui Assaad
    11. No Global South in economic development Smita Srinivas
    12. The informal economy in cities of the global south: Challenges to the planning lexicon Caroline Skinner and Vanessa Watson 
    13. Urban finance: Strengthening an overlooked foundation of urban planning Paul Smoke

    14. Section Three: New drivers of change: Ecology, infrastructure and technology

    15. Urban climate adaptation in the global South: Justice and inclusive development in a new planning domain Eric Chu, Isabelle Anguelovski and Debra Roberts
    16. Social-environmental dilemmas of planning an ‘ecological civilisation’ in China Jia-Ching Chen
    17. Open space provision and environmental preservation strategies: A case study in Brazil Mônica A. Haddad
    18. Cities and urban food poverty in Africa Jane Battersby
    19. Technology and spatial governance in cities of the global South Nancy Odendaal
    20. Balancing accessibility with aspiration: Challenges in urban transport planning in the global South Anjali Mahendra
    21. Section Four: Landscapes of citizenship

    22. ‘Terra Nullius’ and planning: Land, law and identity in Israel/Palestine Oren Yiftachel
    23. The Intent to Reside: Residence in the auto-constructed city Gautam Bhan, Amlanjyoti Goswami and Aromar Revi
    24. Living as logistics: Tenuous struggles in the remaking of collective AbdouMaliq Simone
    25. Informal worker organising and mobilisation: Linking global with local advocacy Chris Bonner, Françoise Carré, Martha Alter Chen and Rhonda Douglas
    26. Is there a typical urban violence? Fernando M. Carrión and Alexandra Velasco
    27. 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
    28. Starting from here: Challenges in planning for better health care in Tanzania Maureen Mackintosh and Paula Tibandebage
    29. Section Five: Planning pedagogies

    30. Learning from the city: A politics of urban learning in planning Colin McFarlane
    31. Campus in camps: Knowledge production and urban interventions in refugee camps Alessandro Petti
    32. At the coalface, take 3: Re-imagining community-university engagements from here Tanja Winkler
    33. Co-learning the city – Towards a pedagogy of poly-learning and planning praxis Adriana Allen, Rita Lambert and Christopher Yap
    34. Learning to learn again: Restoring relevance to development experiments through a whole systems approach Jigar Bhatt

    Index

    Biography

    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.