Urban Planning in the Global South: Conflicting Rationalities in Contested Urban Space 2018 Edition Contributor(s): de Satgé, Richard (Author), Watson, Vanessa (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319694952 ISBN-13: 9783319694955 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $170.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Developing & Emerging Countries - Political Science | Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development - Social Science | Sociology - Urban |
Dewey: 305.8 |
Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.30 lbs) 255 pages |
Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
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Publisher Description: This book addresses the on-going crisis of informality in rapidly growing cities of the global South. The authors offer a Southern perspective on planning theory, explaining how the concept of conflicting rationalities complements and expands upon a theoretical tradition which still primarily speaks to global 'Northern' audiences. De Satg and Watson posit that a significant change is needed in the makeup of urban planning theory and practice - requiring an understanding of the 'conflict of rationalities' between state planning and those struggling to survive in urban informal settlements - for social conditions to improve in the global South. Ethnography, as illustrated in the book's case study - Langa, a township in Cape Town, South Africa - is used to arrive at this conclusion. The authors are thus able to demonstrate how power and conflict between the ambitions of state planners and shack-dwellers, attempting to survive in a resource-poor context, have permeated and shaped all state-society engagement in this planning process. |