ABSTRACT
Building on the findings of the contributions from the Hybrid Urbanisms book, this concluding chapter explores through a comparative lens the three thematic strands (1) systems, reforms and legislation, (2) actors in urban planning and infrastructure delivery and (3) everyday practices and activism. It calls for a detailed and nuanced study of different practices and materialities as well as diverse groups of actors, depending on the case and its specific conditions to investigate hybrid urbanisms. Following this argumentation, a systematisation of actors’ perspectives on hybridity is developed, including three individual and three institutional perspectives. The chapter contributes to the development of a conceptual approach that sees urban development as highly relational, emphasising the need for close examinations of local realities. The chapter concludes by highlighting the relevance of investigating hybrid urbanisms in the context of the under-researched secondary cities and of the contribution of this approach to the development of new theories of urban development in the global South.
