Theorising Urban Development From the Global South – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030824747,3030824748
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- ISBN-10 : 3030824748
- ISBN-13 : 978-3030824747
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This edited volume brings together debates from the Global South and Global East to explore alternatives to conventional planning in Southern cities. Embracing the evolving post-colonial theory, the volume offers ‘fragments’ of the urban that provide clues to the larger, often-repeated ontological question that continues to hold: Why and what does theory from the South mean? The chapters derive from and speak to the simultaneously homogenous and heterogeneous South. They focus on presenting the alternative realities of Southern cities as critical analytical lenses that can build up to the theorisation of the Southern urban with a potential to (re)understand the contemporary urban world. The contributions explore locally rooted knowledge systems, premised on social and cultural practices, as possible conduits to evolving planning methods. In doing so, the volume breaks apart the linear modernity that urban theory from the North relies on.
Table contents:
1. Introduction—Exploring Urban ‘Southernness’: Praxes and Theory(s)
Part I. The Homogeneous South: Emerging Planning Territories
2. The Production of Suburban Space Through Metropolitan Governance in a Global South City Region
3. Planning for the Urban Mosaic of a Megacity: The Case of Urban Villages in Delhi
4. Reimagining Urban Development in a Tribal Region: Readings on a Fifth Schedule Area of India
5. Urban Planning Practices in China: Struggling Between Politics and the Market
Part II. The Heterogeneous South: Conflicting Rationalities
6. Invisible Territories: The Visibility of an Urban Crisis in Medellín
7. Defensive Urban Citizenship: A View from Southeastern Tel Aviv
8. Everyday Practices and Public Space (Re-)Appropriation in El Cisne Dos, Guayaquil
9. Situated Modernities: Socio-Spatial Co-Production in Namibia
10. Planning and Pentecostalism in the Spatial (Re-)Configuration of Lagos
11. A Grammar for Transformative Urbanism
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