Theorising Urban Development From the Global South

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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. Preface and Acknowledgements Contents Notes on Contributors List of Figures List of Tables 1 Introduction—Exploring Urban ‘Southernness’: Praxes and Theory(s) 1.1 Introduction 1.2 The Southern Turn: New Geographies of Theory 1.3 The Simultaneously Homogeneous and Heterogenous Southern City 1.3.1 The Homogeneous South: Emerging Planning Territories 1.3.2 The Heterogeneous South: Conflicting Rationalities 1.4 Discussion 1.4.1 The Homogeneous South 1.4.2 The Heterogeneous South 1.5 Conclusion References Part I The Homogeneous South: Emerging Planning Territories 2 The Production of Suburban Space Through Metropolitan Governance in a Global South City Region 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Research Methods 2.3 Metropolitan Governance—Suburban Space in Kolkata 2.4 From Rural Periphery to Suburban Town: The Case of Pujali 2.5 Municipal Re-Delineation—Merged Towns: The Case of Bally 2.6 Suburban Space—Metropolitan Governance and the Regional State 2.7 Conclusion References 3 Planning for the Urban Mosaic of a Megacity: The Case of Urban Villages in Delhi 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Villages and Planning in Asian Cities 3.3 Delhi: Framing the Village in the City and Its Planning 3.3.1 The Planning of the Colonial Capital 3.3.2 The Post-Independence Population Rush 3.3.3 Master Planning 3.4 Selectively Undoing Unplanned 3.4.1 Managing the Everyday City 3.4.2 The Urbanisation of Villages 3.4.3 The Provision of Services 3.4.4 Building Construction 3.5 The Thriving Urban Village 3.6 Conclusion 3.6.1 Back to City Planning and the Urban Village 3.6.2 About Modernity and Temporality 3.6.3 It’s About Language References 4 Reimagining Urban Development in a Tribal Region: Readings on a Fifth Schedule Area of India 4.1 The Context of Tribes and Indigenous People in India 4.2 Tribes and Land 4.3 Greater Ranchi: From a Symbol of the New India to a Contested Capital City 4.4 The Development of Greater Ranchi: Politics of the Master Plan 4.5 Legal Plurality 4.6 Legal Intricacies in the Case of Greater Ranchi 4.7 Resistance and Protest 4.8 Towards a More Sustainable Urban Development from an Indigenous Perspective 4.9 A Policy Framework for Urban Development in the Tribal Areas of India References 5 Urban Planning Practices in China: Struggling Between Politics and the Market 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Urban Planning as a Technical Process 5.2.1 The Evolution of China’s Urban-Planning System 5.2.2 The Evolution of China’s Urban-Planning Profession 5.3 Urban Planning and Politics 5.4 Urban Planning in the Socialist Market Economy 5.4.1 The Missing Public Spaces 5.4.2 Copycat Towns 5.4.3 Urban-Village Redevelopment 5.5 Conclusions References Part II The Heterogeneous South: Conflicting Rationalities 6 Invisible Territories: The Visibility of an Urban Crisis in Medellín 6.1 Introduction 6.2 The Production of Marginal Neighbourhoods: The Formation of “Invisible Territories” 6.3 The Politics of Invisibility: Sociospatial Alienation 6.4 Invisibility as a Homogenising Force 6.5 Mapping “Invisible” Territories in Medellín: a Multidimensional Challenge, but a Good Starting Point 6.6 Legitimising Visibility: Unidades De Vida Articulada (UVAs) (Units for Articulated Life) 6.7 Conclusion References 7 Defensive Urban Citizenship: A View from Southeastern Tel Aviv 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Urban Citizenship and Policy: a Theoretical Prelude 7.3 A Brief History of Planning in Tel Aviv 7.4 New Plan, Old Rhetoric: ‘Tel Aviv 5000’ and the ‘New South’ 7.4.1 Shapira: A Frontier Neighborhood 7.5 Threats, Identities and Defensive Urban Citizenship 7.6 A Final Word References 8 Everyday Practices and Public Space (Re-)Appropriation in El Cisne Dos, Guayaquil 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Everyday Life and Informality 8.3 The Appropriation of Public Space 8.4 Methodology 8.5 The Upgrading of Public Space in Guayaquil’s Informal Areas 8.6 Public Space in El Cisne Dos 8.6.1 La Pista 8.6.2 Tramo 5—Guayaquil Ecológico 8.6.3 Las Palmeras 8.7 Multiple Re-appropriation Practices 8.7.1 Re-appropriation and Livelihood 8.7.2 Re-appropriation and Recreation 8.7.3 Re-appropriation and Socialization 8.7.4 Re-appropriation and Personalization 8.8 Conclusions References 9 Situated Modernities: Socio-Spatial Co-Production in Namibia 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Modernity and Spatial Production 9.3 Namibia’s Emerging Modernities 9.3.1 Modernist Planning: Property and State-Led Housing Production in the 1980s 9.3.2 The Emergence of Co-Produced Urban Development 9.4 Contrasting Statutory and Bottom-Up Processes of Land Delivery 9.5 Conclusion References 10 Planning and Pentecostalism in the Spatial (Re-)Configuration of Lagos 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Obfuscating the Interface Between Religion and Urban Land-Use Planning 10.3 The Nexus of Planning and Pentecostalism in Lagos 10.4 The Institutional Framework for Urban Planning in Lagos 10.5 Case Studies 10.5.1 New Town Development: Redemption Camp 10.5.2 Religious Gentrification/Enclaving: The Onike Community 10.5.3 Interim Spaces: The Iwaya Community 10.6 Conclusion: Pentecostal Urbanism as a Complex Planning Approach in Lagos References 11 A Grammar for Transformative Urbanism 11.1 Introduction 11.2 A Grammar for the Tower of Babel3 11.2.1 Towards a Grammar 11.2.2 The Rebel Is from the South 11.3 The Autopoietic Production of Space 11.3.1 Insurgent Citizenship: From “zombie” Cities to Thinking Cities 11.3.2 Urban Dialectics 11.3.3 Generative Urban Designs 11.4 Transformative Cities 11.4.1 In-Betweenness as a Transformative Moment 11.4.2 Suffering and Violence 11.4.3 Urban Sovereignty 11.5 Conclusion References Index