ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|68 pages
Planning and/as the state
chapter 3|11 pages
Urban planning at a crossroads
chapter 4|11 pages
African urbanisation and democratisation
chapter 5|9 pages
Data on rapidly growing cities
part II|76 pages
Economy and economic actors
chapter 9|12 pages
Planning in the midst of informality
chapter 11|13 pages
The informal economy in cities of the global South
part III|74 pages
New drivers of change
chapter 13|11 pages
Urban climate adaptation in the global South
chapter 15|12 pages
Open space provision and environmental preservation strategies
chapter 18|16 pages
Balancing accessibility with aspiration
part IV|80 pages
Landscapes of citizenship
chapter 24|12 pages
Urban upgrading to reduce violence in informal settlements
part V|59 pages
Planning pedagogies