Watson / Bhan / Srinivas The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-39284-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 414 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge International Handbooks

Over the last decade there have been significant shifts in the practice and theory of city and regional planning across the globe. This is not surprising. For planners, much of the world’s challenges on environment, poverty, health, housing, lie in what many term the ‘Global South’ and these are also often areas of economic growth, demographic shifts, and urgent built environment needs. The most important feature of this shift therefore has been a growing recognition that planning ideas emerging from the industrialised economies of the ‘Global North’ are not necessarily appropriate in regions of the world with very different social, political and economic contexts. We use a critical lens to understand the diversity within the ‘Global South’ and its own epistemologies and diverse practices of planning. Our cases (planning arenas and places) are selected accordingly.

This books seeks to respond to this set of current and emergent challenges in planning theory and practice by showcasing the diversity of planning ideas from, and of, the parts of the world usually at the margins of global planning knowledge production. It does so to begin to build an epistemic project in thinking from "here" which gives us new concepts, emphases or approaches that emerge from cities and urban regions. It does so firmly in close conversation with actually existing practices of institutional and professional planning to bring out the diversity of existing approaches and ideas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watson, Vanessa

Bhan, Gautam

Bhan, Guatan

Srinivas, Smita

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Section I Perspectives on Changing Social-Economic and Urban Factors which Shape Planning Section II Engaging with Contempoary Urban Plannign Challenges Section III Planning Practitioner Stories Section IV Planning and Learning: New Planning Pedagogies Section VI Conclusion