The Routledge companion to planning in the Global South / edited by Gautam Bhan, Smita Srinivas and Vanessa Watson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bhan, Gautam, editor.

Srinivas, Smita, editor.

Watson, Vanessa, editor.

Series:

Routledge companions.

Routledge Companions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Regional planning--Developing countries.

Regional planning.

City planning--Developing countries.

City planning.

Economic development--Developing countries.

Economic development.

Urban policy--Developing countries.

Urban policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (415 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, [England] ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

There has been a growing recognition that planning ideas emerging from the industrialised economies of the 'Global North' are not necessarily appropriate in regions of the world with very different social, political and economic contexts. This books seeks to respond to this set of challenges by showcasing the planning ideas from, and of, the parts of the world usually at the margins of planning knowledge production. It does so to begin to build an epistemic project in thinking from "here" which gives us new concepts, emphases or approaches that emerge from cities and urban regions. It does so in close conversation with actually existing practices of institutional and professional planning.

Contents:

The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South- Front Cover

The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

On planning in the contemporary moment

On place, and the global South

Locating ourselves

The chapters

References

PART I: Planning and/as the state

Chapter 1: Spatial rationalities and the possibilities for planning in the New Urban Agenda for Sustainable Development

Locating 'the city' in the SDGs

Making global urban policy

'The city' and the emerging remit of planning

Conclusion

Notes

Chapter 2: Growth and inclusion in the mega-cities of India, South Africa and Brazil

The empowered and embedded city

India: the growth cabal

South Africa: the growth machine and contained citizenship

Brazil: decentralisation and the social city

Embedding the city

Note

Chapter 3: Urban planning at a crossroads: a critical assessment of Brazil's City Statute, 15 years later

Introduction: the City Statute and urban planning in Brazil

A new urban land-governance framework

Is the critique legitimate? An assessment of MMPs

The City Statute in context

Chapter 4: African urbanisation and democratisation: public policy, planning and public administration dilemmas

Urbanisation and democratisation in Africa

Democratisation and the management of African cities: the record of African decentralisation

Towards a different approach to African municipal management

Broader institutional base for city management

References.

Chapter 5: Data on rapidly growing cities: lessons from planning and public policies for housing precarity in Brazil

Data and the heterogeneity of precarity

Data for policy formulation, for planning and for implementation

Chapter 6: A 'peripheries' view of planning failures in Kolkata and Hyderabad in India

Place-making in the peripheries of Kolkata and Hyderabad

Conclusion: planning 'failures' or emerging terrains of planning practice?

PART II: Economy and economic actors

Chapter 7: Urbanisation and development: reinforcing the foundations

Could an urbanising population cause economic growth?

What does the evidence show?

Urbanisation and economic development go hand in hand

The urban land-infrastructure-coordination nexus

Chapter 8: Planning Special Economic Zones in China

The reforms and changing planning

The three cases

Chapter 9: Planning in the midst of informality: an application to youth employment programmes in Egypt

An informalising labour market

The inadequacy of unemployment as an indicator of labour market health in the context of widespread informality

Interventions to improve youth employment outcomes in the context of widespread informality

Chapter 10: No global South in economic development

Introduction: the diverse contexts of economic development

Variation of economic plans between and within nations

Economic development plans: contradictions, critique, future challenges

Conclusions: what now for planning?

Chapter 11: The informal economy in cities of the global South: challenges to the planning lexicon

Introduction.

The size and contribution of the informal economy

Informality: policy and theoretical positions

Planning concepts and practice

Implications for planning practice

Chapter 12: Urban finance: strengthening an overlooked foundation of urban planning

Setting the context

The critical role of finance in urban planning

The landscape of urban/local finance instruments

Looking forward: implications for planning-finance linkages

PART III: New drivers of change: ecology, infrastructure and technology

Chapter 13: Urban climate adaptation in the global South: justice and inclusive development in a new planning domain

Theories of climate adaptation planning

Experiences of integrating climate adaptation into urban development

The dialectics of adaptation and development: implications for planning in the global South

Chapter 14: Social-environmental dilemmas of planning an 'ecological civilisation' in China

The crisis context of China's eco-urbanisation paradigm

Spatial planning as foundational development: institutionalising eco-urbanisation in discourse and policy

Metonymies of eco-urbanisation: producing locales of national environmental rationality

The implications for planning

Chapter 15: Open space provision and environmental preservation strategies: a case study in Brazil

Urban planning tools

The study area

Spatial analysis

Examining urban planning tools

Discussion

Recommendations and conclusion

Chapter 16: Cities, planning and urban food poverty in Africa

Limitations of current approaches

Envisioning a food security role for planners

Chapter 17: Technology and spatial governance in cities of the global South

ICT, cities and planning in the global South

Technology, space and planning in cities of the global South

Chapter 18: Balancing accessibility with aspiration: challenges in urban transport planning in the global South

Key urban transport problems and root causes

Strategy for change involving four key recommendations

Conclusions and directions for further research

PART IV: Landscapes of citizenship

Chapter 19: 'Terra nullius' and planning: land, law and identity in Israel/Palestine

Terra nullius

Land, law and planning in southern Israel/Palestine

Denial and erasure

Policy changes and Bedouin resistance

A non-final word

Chapter 20: The intent to reside: residence in the auto-constructed city

Residence and insecure tenure

Access to basic services and entitlements

The intent to reside

Concluding provocations

Chapter 21: Living as logistics: tenuous struggles in the remaking of collective urban life

Make+shift life

The conundrum of informalisation

Lives of logistics

Chapter 22: Informal worker organising and mobilisation: linking global with local advocacy

Informal worker organisations in cities

Forms of informal worker organisations

Global urban advocacy

From global to local: how global networks interface with local advocacy

Chapter 23: Is there a typical urban violence?

Cities and violence

Mutual relationships: cities and violence

Public space/private space

Chapter 24: Urban upgrading to reduce violence in informal settlements: the case of violence prevention through urban upgrading (VPUU) in Monwabisi Park, Cape Town, South Africa

Concepts behind urban upgrading for violence prevention and reduction

Violence prevention programmes and informal settlements: the VPUU in Monwabisi Park, Cape Town

Chapter 25: Starting from here: challenges in planning for better health care in Tanzania

Introduction: the health sector as a social and economic institution

The challenge of institutional redesign

Maternal mortality: a gender lens on health sector inequity

Charging for care, paying for imports: health care commercialisation, polarisation and externalisation

Institutional design for improving health care: planning from the here and now

PART V: Planning pedagogies

Chapter 26: Learning from the city: a politics of urban learning in planning

Conceptualising learning

Incremental learning and urban planning

Critical learning and urban planning

Chapter 27: Campus in Camps: knowledge production and urban interventions in refugee camps

Neighbours' schools

Critical learning environments

The camp as a heritage site

Chapter 28: At the coalface, take 3: re-imagining community-university engagements from here

Our story 'from here'

Chapter 29: Co-learning the city: towards a pedagogy of poly-learning and planning praxis

From urban knowledge to urban learnings: situating co-learning in discourse and practice

Co-learning actors and alliances

Learning spatially: from 'here' to 'there'.

Learning as an open-ended reflexive exercise.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

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ISBN:

9781317392859

131739285X

OCLC:

994396624