The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South

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The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South- Front Cover The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of figures List of tables List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction On planning in the contemporary moment On place, and the global South Locating ourselves The chapters References PART I: Planning and/as the state Chapter 1: Spatial rationalities and the possibilities for planning in the New Urban Agenda for Sustainable Development Introduction Locating ‘the city’ in the SDGs Making global urban policy ‘The city’ and the emerging remit of planning Conclusion Notes References Chapter 2: Growth and inclusion in the mega-cities of India, South Africa and Brazil Introduction The empowered and embedded city India: the growth cabal South Africa: the growth machine and contained citizenship Brazil: decentralisation and the social city Embedding the city Conclusion Note References Chapter 3: Urban planning at a crossroads: a critical assessment of Brazil’s City Statute, 15 years later Introduction: the City Statute and urban planning in Brazil A new urban land-governance framework Is the critique legitimate? An assessment of MMPs The City Statute in context Conclusion Notes References Chapter 4: African urbanisation and democratisation: public policy, planning and public administration dilemmas Introduction Urbanisation and democratisation in Africa Democratisation and the management of African cities: the record of African decentralisation Towards a different approach to African municipal management Broader institutional base for city management Conclusion References Chapter 5: Data on rapidly growing cities: lessons from planning and public policies for housing precarity in Brazil Introduction Data and the heterogeneity of precarity Data for policy formulation, for planning and for implementation Conclusion Notes References Chapter 6: A ‘peripheries’ view of planning failures in Kolkata and Hyderabad in India Place-making in the peripheries of Kolkata and Hyderabad Conclusion: planning ‘failures’ or emerging terrains of planning practice? Note References PART II: Economy and economic actors Chapter 7: Urbanisation and development: reinforcing the foundations Introduction Could an urbanising population cause economic growth? What does the evidence show? Urbanisation and economic development go hand in hand The urban land–infrastructure–coordination nexus Conclusion References Chapter 8: Planning Special Economic Zones in China Introduction The reforms and changing planning The three cases Conclusion References Chapter 9: Planning in the midst of informality: an application to youth employment programmes in Egypt Introduction An informalising labour market The inadequacy of unemployment as an indicator of labour market health in the context of widespread informality Interventions to improve youth employment outcomes in the context of widespread informality Conclusion Notes References Chapter 10: No global South in economic development Introduction: the diverse contexts of economic development Variation of economic plans between and within nations Economic development plans: contradictions, critique, future challenges Conclusions: what now for planning? Notes References Chapter 11: The informal economy in cities of the global South: challenges to the planning lexicon Introduction The size and contribution of the informal economy Informality: policy and theoretical positions Planning concepts and practice Implications for planning practice Conclusion Note References Chapter 12: Urban finance: strengthening an overlooked foundation of urban planning Introduction Setting the context The critical role of finance in urban planning The landscape of urban/local finance instruments Looking forward: implications for planning–finance linkages References PART III: New drivers of change: ecology, infrastructure and technology Chapter 13: Urban climate adaptation in the global South: justice and inclusive development in a new planning domain Introduction Theories of climate adaptation planning Experiences of integrating climate adaptation into urban development The dialectics of adaptation and development: implications for planning in the global South References Chapter 14: Social-environmental dilemmas of planning an ‘ecological civilisation’ in China Introduction The crisis context of China’s eco-urbanisation paradigm Spatial planning as foundational development: institutionalising eco-urbanisation in discourse and policy Metonymies of eco-urbanisation: producing locales of national environmental rationality The implications for planning Notes References Chapter 15: Open space provision and environmental preservation strategies: a case study in Brazil Introduction Urban planning tools The study area Spatial analysis Examining urban planning tools Discussion Recommendations and conclusion Notes References Chapter 16: Cities, planning and urban food poverty in Africa Introduction Limitations of current approaches Envisioning a food security role for planners Conclusion References Chapter 17: Technology and spatial governance in cities of the global South Introduction ICT, cities and planning in the global South Technology, space and planning in cities of the global South Conclusion Note References Chapter 18: Balancing accessibility with aspiration: challenges in urban transport planning in the global South Introduction Key urban transport problems and root causes Strategy for change involving four key recommendations Conclusions and directions for further research Notes References PART IV: Landscapes of citizenship Chapter 19: ‘Terra nullius’ and planning: land, law and identity in Israel/Palestine Terra nullius Land, law and planning in southern Israel/Palestine Denial and erasure Policy changes and Bedouin resistance A non-final word References Chapter 20: The intent to reside: residence in the auto-constructed city Residence and insecure tenure Access to basic services and entitlements The intent to reside Concluding provocations Notes References Chapter 21: Living as logistics: tenuous struggles in the remaking of collective urban life Make+shift life The conundrum of informalisation Lives of logistics References Chapter 22: Informal worker organising and mobilisation: linking global with local advocacy Introduction Informal worker organisations in cities Forms of informal worker organisations Global urban advocacy From global to local: how global networks interface with local advocacy Conclusion Notes References Chapter 23: Is there a typical urban violence? Introduction Cities and violence Mutual relationships: cities and violence Public space/private space Conclusion Notes References Chapter 24: Urban upgrading to reduce violence in informal settlements: the case of violence prevention through urban upgrading (VPUU) in Monwabisi Park, Cape Town, South Africa Introduction Concepts behind urban upgrading for violence prevention and reduction Violence prevention programmes and informal settlements: the VPUU in Monwabisi Park, Cape Town Discussion Conclusion References Chapter 25: Starting from here: challenges in planning for better health care in Tanzania Introduction: the health sector as a social and economic institution The challenge of institutional redesign Maternal mortality: a gender lens on health sector inequity Charging for care, paying for imports: health care commercialisation, polarisation and externalisation Institutional design for improving health care: planning from the here and now Conclusion References PART V: Planning pedagogies Chapter 26: Learning from the city: a politics of urban learning in planning Introduction Conceptualising learning Incremental learning and urban planning Critical learning and urban planning Conclusion References Chapter 27: Campus in Camps: knowledge production and urban interventions in refugee camps Introduction Neighbours’ schools Critical learning environments The camp as a heritage site Conclusion Notes Chapter 28: At the coalface, take 3: re-imagining community–university engagements from here Introduction Our story ‘from here’ Conclusion Notes References Chapter 29: Co-learning the city: towards a pedagogy of poly-learning and planning praxis Introduction From urban knowledge to urban learnings: situating co-learning in discourse and practice Co-learning actors and alliances Learning spatially: from ‘here’ to ‘there’ Learning as an open-ended reflexive exercise From trans-local co-learning to the production of actionable knowledge Conclusion Note References Chapter 30: Learning to learn again: restoring relevance to development experiments through a whole systems approach Introduction The space of development experimentation Development methods and reflective practice The RCT validity debate Model validity Conclusion References Index