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Urban Planning in the Global South

Conflicting Rationalities in Contested Urban Space

Gebonden Engels 2018 9783319694955
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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 Satgé 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.

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ISBN13:9783319694955
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Springer International Publishing

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<p>Chapter 1. Introduction</p><p>Introduction to the book</p><p>Southern planning theory</p><p>Conflicting rationalities</p><p>Researching conflicting rationalities in Langa: The method</p>Understanding the Langa megaproject<p></p><p>Voices from and within the state, voices from and within Langa</p><p>Chapter 2. Conflicting Rationalities and Southern Planning Theory</p><p>Introducing conflicting rationalities and southern planning theory</p><p>The southern turn in global scholarship</p>The southern turn in planning scholarship<p></p><p>Why a ‘Southern theorising project’?</p><p>Conflicting rationalities</p><p>Concluding on conflicting rationalities and southern planning theory</p><p>Chapter 3. African Cities: Planning Ambitions and Planning Realities</p><p>Introducing African cities and planning</p><p>Planning in the African context: Colonial footprints</p><p>Imported national planning legislation</p><p>African cities and planning</p><p>African urban interpretations</p><p>Looking forward –  new African urban visions</p><p>Concluding on African cities and planning</p><p>Chapter 4. Struggles for Shelter and Survival in Post-Apartheid South African Cities: The Case of Langa</p><p>Introducing struggles for shelter and survival</p><p>South Africa and the negotiated transition to democracy</p><p>The development of new housing policy</p><p>Breaking New Ground</p><p>The N2 Gateway</p><p>A brief socio-spatial history of Langa and its place in Cape Town</p><p>Concluding on struggles for shelter and survival</p><p>Chapter 5. Voices From and Within the State</p><p>Introducing voices from and within the state</p><p>The N2 Gateway – a story in five episodes</p><p>Narratives within the state</p><p>Trustees and intermediaries</p><p>Concluding on voices from and within the state</p><p>Chapter 6. Conflicting Rationalities in the N2 Gateway Project: Voices from Langa</p><p>Introducing conflicting rationalities in Langa</p><p>Langa residents: borners and migrants</p><p>Langa narratives</p><p>Concluding on conflicting rationalities in Langa</p><p>Chapter 7. Implications for Southern Planning Theory and Practice</p><p>Introducing implications for southern planning theory and practice</p><p>Interrogating the concept of conflicting rationalities</p><p>The multiple voices within the State</p><p>The fragmented ‘community’</p><p>Differentiated contestations over space, place and belonging</p><p>Frontiers of deep difference and the hydra of contestations</p><p>Concluding on implications for southern planning theory and practice</p><p>Chapter 8. Conclusion</p><p>Introducing the theoretical propositions</p><p>Why do megaprojects so often fail?</p><p>Developing planning theory and practice cognisant of divergent rationalities</p><p>Writing back to theory</p><p> </p><p>Concluding on planning theory</p>

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