The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South

Gautam Bhan is Lead, Academics and Research, at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and is most recently the author of In the Public’s Interest: Evictions, Citizenship and Inequality in Contemporary Delhi (2016). Smita Srinivas is an economic development scholar with a PhD from MIT. She is Visiting Professor of Economics and IKD Centre, Open University, UK, and Senior Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science. Her last book Market Menagerie (Stanford University Press 2012) won the EAEPE 2015 Myrdal Prize. Vanessa Watson is professor of city planning at the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and is a Fellow of this University. She holds degrees, including a PhD, from South African universities and the Architectural Association of London and is on the executive of the African Centre for Cities.

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List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Gautam Bhan, Smita Srinivas and Vanessa Watson

Section One: Planning and/as the state






Spatial rationalities and the challenges for planners in the New Urban Agenda for Sustainable Development Clive Barnett and Susan Parnell



Growth and inclusion in the mega-cities of India, South Africa and Brazil Patrick Heller



Urban planning at a crossroads: A critical assessment of Brazil's City Statute, 15 years later Edesio Fernandes



African urbanisation and democratisation: Public policy, planning and public administration dilemmas Dele Olowu



Data on rapidly growing cities – Lessons from planning and public policies for housing precarity in Brazil Eduardo Marques



A ‘peripheries’ view of planning failures in Kolkata and Hyderabad in India Sudeshna Mitra
Section Two: Economy and economic actors




Urbanisation and development: Reinforcing the foundations Ivan Turok



Planning Special Economic Zones in China Qianqi Shen



Planning in the midst of informality: An application to youth employment programmes in Egypt Ragui Assaad



No Global South in economic development Smita Srinivas



The informal economy in cities of the global south: Challenges to the planning lexicon Caroline Skinner and Vanessa Watson
Urban finance: Strengthening an overlooked foundation of urban planning Paul Smoke
Section Three: New drivers of change: Ecology, infrastructure and technology




Urban climate adaptation in the global South: Justice and inclusive development in a new planning domain Eric Chu, Isabelle Anguelovski and Debra Roberts



Social-environmental dilemmas of planning an ‘ecological civilisation’ in China Jia-Ching Chen



Open space provision and environmental preservation strategies: A case study in Brazil Mônica A. Haddad



Cities and urban food poverty in Africa Jane Battersby



Technology and spatial governance in cities of the global South Nancy Odendaal



Balancing accessibility with aspiration: Challenges in urban transport planning in the global South Anjali Mahendra
Section Four: Landscapes of citizenship




‘Terra Nullius’ and planning: Land, law and identity in Israel/Palestine Oren Yiftachel



The Intent to Reside: Residence in the auto-constructed city Gautam Bhan, Amlanjyoti Goswami and Aromar Revi



Living as logistics: Tenuous struggles in the remaking of collective AbdouMaliq Simone



Informal worker organising and mobilisation: Linking global with local advocacy Chris Bonner, Françoise Carré, Martha Alter Chen and Rhonda Douglas



Is there a typical urban violence? Fernando M. Carrión and Alexandra Velasco



Urban upgrading to reduce violence in informal settlements – The case of Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading (VPUU) in Monwabisi Park, Cape Town, South Africa Mercy Brown-Luthango and Elena Reyes



Starting from here: Challenges in planning for better health care in Tanzania Maureen Mackintosh and Paula Tibandebage
Section Five: Planning pedagogies




Learning from the city: A politics of urban learning in planning Colin McFarlane



Campus in camps: Knowledge production and urban interventions in refugee camps Alessandro Petti



At the coalface, take 3: Re-imagining community-university engagements from here Tanja Winkler



Co-learning the city – Towards a pedagogy of poly-learning and planning praxis Adriana Allen, Rita Lambert and Christopher Yap



Learning to learn again: Restoring relevance to development experiments through a whole systems approach Jigar Bhatt

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