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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsChapter 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)
