Theorising Urban Development From the Global South (eBook)

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.

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.