ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses to urban planning and policy – the technical and political processes concerned with defining, regulating, and managing urban land use, property rights, social and economic infrastructure, and service delivery. It aims to answer that question by fleshing out an analytical framework for the study of urban indigeneity as a policy and planning category. The chapter also focuses on the role of social actors involved in government institutions who define how and to what extent specific constitutional rights are translated into legislation, public policy, and urban planning interventions. It provides the important role of urban indigenous residents and community-based organisations in influencing the urban policy and planning process. Translation is conceptualised as an act which is influenced and inspired not only by legal texts but also, and perhaps more importantly, by social actors’ personal views, by the demands of individuals and the groups they represent, and by the specific political and institutional environments that shape their work.
