Theorising Urban Development From the Global South

ISBN-13: 9783030824778 / Angielski

Anjali Karol Mohan;Sony Pellissery;Juliana Gomez Aristizabal

Opis

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. Chapters [Chapter-1] and [Chapter-11] are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction/A Critical Appreciation of Urban Trajectories in the Global South: Mutual Learning Opportunities (Anjali Karol Mohan, Juliana Gomez and Sony Pellissery). - Part I: Emerging Planning Territories: Co-producing Spaces, Knowledge and Vocabularies. - Chapter 2. Addressing Metropolitan Governance through Suburban Space in an Ordinary City Region (Sarani Khatua). - Chapter 3. Planning for the urban mosaic of a mega-city: the case of urban villages in Delhi (Banashree Banerjee). - Chapter 4. Invisible territories: The visibility of an urban crisis in Medellin (Edwar A. Calderón). - Chapter 5. A Tenure Security-Responsive Approach: The Case of Barrio Cantera, San Martín de los Andes, Argentina. - (Claudia Sakay, Silvia Aún, Akiko Okabe). - Chapter 6. Informality, Everyday Practices, and Public Space (re)appropriation: The caseof El Cisne Dos, Guayaquil (Xavier Méndez Abad, Hans Leinfelder, Kris Scheerlinck). - Part II: Planning Histories and Emerging Conflicts: Juxtaposition of the Traditional and the Modern. - Chapter 7. De-Colonising Gray Space: Bedouin-Arabs Resisting Metropolitan Displacement (Oren Yiftachel, Safa Abu Rabia, Erez Tzfadia). - Chapter 8. Urban Planning and Rationality Conflicts in Malawi (Mtafu Manda). - Chapter 9. Reimagining Urban Planning in a Tribal Region: Reflections from a Fifth Schedule Area of India (Aashish Khakha). - Chapter 10. Religious Urbanism: Emergent Mixed-use Approaches to Planning and (re)development in Lagos, Nigeria (Taibat Lawanson). - Chapter 11. New directions in spatial development in Southern Africa: Outlining the background, influences and significance of co-produced spatial production in Namibia (Guillermo Delgado). - Chapter 12. Urban Planning Practices in Mainland China: Evolution and Paradigm Shifts (Zhi Liu). - Chapter 13: Conclusions (Anjali Karol Mohan, Juliana Gomez and Sony Pellissery)

O autorze

Dr. Anjali Karol Mohan is an urban and regional planner with a PhD in urban (e)governance and management. Her research-based practice over two and a half decades straddles urban and regional planning and management, institutional and policy frameworks and information and communication technologies and development (ICTD). A faculty at the National Law School University of India, Bangalore, Dr. Mohan has published in academic journals as well as popular media.

Sony Pellissery is Director of the Institute of Public Policy, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. He is a public policy expert with a special interest in distributive justice across a broad range of issues.

Juliana Gómez Aristizábal is an architect from the National University of Colombia. She worked for the Urban Development Enterprise (EDU) as an architect in the Integral Urban Project (PUI) of the central-eastern zone as part of the implementation of the Social Urbanism strategy in Medellin.

Blurb

“South-to-south conversations, which enable the direct sharing of ideas and practices across countries and continents, offer a promising pathway for building a richer understanding of the urban processes around the world. This book is an account of one of these fruitful conversations, organized between Bangalore and Medellin and expanded to include other voices and experiences. It is a welcome contribution to the search for alternative theories of urban development.”

– Ali Madanipour, Newcastle University, UK

“The volume includes a wealth of new ideas and perspectives that explore current challenges and opportunities within Southern cities. With diverse authors drawing on examples across the global South, the tension between homogenising and counter homogenising processes is addressed directly. Common themes are considered through the chapters as ideas are picked up and developed; but the originality of research contributions is not compromised. This is a volume that illustrates what has been lost due to the paucity of Southern voices in global debates about urban development. Making a contribution to trans-national learning, this book manages to be a fascinating, informative and enjoyable read!”

– Diana Mitlin, International Institute for Environment and Development, UK

The book gathers debates from the Global South to 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? Deriving from and speaking to the simultaneously homogenous and heterogeneous South, the Chapters explore locally rooted knowledge systems, premised on social and cultural practices, as possible conduits to evolving planning methods and theory.

Anjali Karol Mohan is an Urban and Regional Planning Faculty at the Institute of Public Policy, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru.

Juliana Gómez Aristizábal is leading the Master’s program in Urban and Environmental Processes at URBAM, EAFIT University, Medellín, Colombia.

Sony Pellissery is Director, Institute of Public Policy, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru.

Chapters [Chapter-1] and [Chapter-11] are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.