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The Companion to Planning in the Global South offers a collection of essays on planning in parts of the world which, more often than not, are unrecognised or unmarked in mainstream planning texts. This edition is particularly timely for a South Asian audience, given the emerging debates on cities and urbanization in India, as well as on both planning practice and education. The global South is home to much of the urbanization of the 21st century; and the need of the hour is no longer to fill a ‘gap’ that leaves this ‘mainstream’ unquestioned, but to re-theorise planning from these geographies and from a commitment to diverse modes of practice.

The five sections of this book discuss planning and the state; economy and economic actors; new drivers of urban change; landscapes of citizenship; and planning pedagogy

The chapters in each section are not generalised, ‘universal’ analyses and prescriptions, but instead are critical and located reflections in thinking about how to plan, act and intervene in highly complex city, regional and national contexts. The contributing authors to this Companion are all planners of very different kinds, and this diversity ensures a rich variety of insights, primarily based on cases, to emphasise the complexity of the world in which planning is expected to happen.

This volume will be of interest to urbanists, planners, urban economists, sociologists and environmental scientists, as well as practitioners across a range of urban sectors wishing to engage with new planning theory and practice from India and across the global South.

Contents: Introduction/Gautam Bhan, Smita Srinivas and Vanessa Watson. Part I: Planning and/as the state. 1. Spatial rationalities and the possibilities for planning in the new urban agenda for sustainable development /Clive Barnett and Susan Parnell. 2. Growth and inclusion in the mega-cities of India, South Africa and Brazil/Patrick Heller. 3. Urban planning at a crossroads: a critical assessment of Brazil’s City Statute, 15 years later/Edesio Fernandes. 4. African urbanisation and democratisation: public policy, planning and public administration dilemmas/Dele Olowu. 5. Data on rapidly growing cities: lessons from planning and public policies for housing precarity in Brazil/Eduardo Marques. 6. A ‘peripheries’ view of planning failures in Kolkata and Hyderabad in India/Sudeshna Mitra. Part II: Economy and economic actors. 7. Urbanisation and development: reinforcing the foundations/Ivan Turok. 8. Planning Special Economic Zones in China/Qianqi Shen. 9. Planning in the midst of informality: an application to youth employment programmes in Egypt/Ragui Assaad. 10. No global South in economic development/Smita Srinivas. 11 The informal economy in cities of the global South: challenges to the planning lexicon/Caroline Skinner and Vanessa Watson. 12. Urban finance: strengthening an overlooked foundation of urban planning/Paul Smoke. Part III: New drivers of change: ecology, infrastructure and technology. 13. Urban climate adaptation in the global South: justice and inclusive development in a new planning domain/Eric Chu, Isabelle Anguelovski and Debra Roberts. 14. Social-environmental dilemmas of planning an ‘ecological civilisation’ in China/Jia-Ching Chen.15. Open space provision and environmental preservation strategies: a case study in Brazil/Monica A. Haddad. 16. Cities, planning and urban food poverty in Africa/Jane Battersby. 17. Technology and spatial governance in cities of the global South/Nancy Odendaal. 18. Balancing accessibility with aspiration: challenges in urban transport planning in the global South/Anjali Mahendra. Part IV: Landscapes of citizenship. 19. ‘Terra nullius’ and planning: land, law and identity in Israel/Palestine/Oren Yiftachel. 20. The intent to reside: residence in the auto-constructed city/Gautam Bhan, Amlanjyoti Goswami and Aromar Revi. 21. Living as logistics: tenuous struggles in the remaking of collective urban life/AbdouMaliq Simone. 22. Informal worker organising and mobilisation: linking global with local advocacy/Chris Bonner, Françoise Carre, Martha Alter Chen and Rhonda Douglas. 23. Is there a typical urban violence?/Fernando M. Carrion and Alexandra Velasco. 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/Mercy Brown-Luthango and Elena Reyes. 25. Starting from here: challenges in planning for better health care in Tanzania/Maureen Mackintosh and Paula Tibandebage. Part V: Planning pedagogies. 26. Learning from the city: a politics of urban learning in planning/Colin McFarlane. 27. Campus in Camps: knowledge production and urban interventions in refugee camps/Alessandro Petti. 28. At the coalface, take 3: re-imagining community–university engagements from here/Tanja Winkler. 29. Co-learning the city: towards a pedagogy of poly-learning and planning praxis/Adriana Allen, Rita Lambert and Christopher Yap. 30. Learning to learn again: restoring relevance to development experiments through a whole systems approach/Jigar Bhatt. Index.