Urban Planning in the Global South: Conflicting Rationalities in Contested Urban Space

di Richard de Satgé (Autore)

Vanessa Watson (Autore)

Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019

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.

• Autore: Richard de Satgé, Vanessa Watson
• Editore: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Anno: 2019
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 255 p.
• Dimensioni: 210 x 148 mm
• EAN: 9783030098902

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