Theorising Urban Development From the Global South

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.

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: Juxtapositionof 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).