Routledge Handbook of Planning Megacities in the Global South

The Routledge Handbook of Planning Megacities in the Global South provides rigorous comparative analyses, discussing the challenges, processes, best practices, and initiatives of urbanization in the Global South.

List of contents

Introduction
Deden Rukmana
Part I – Managing the urban growth

1. The third wave of sprawl: the dynamics of peripheral growth in Buenos Aires
Nora Libertun de Duren


2. Development of the Ho Chi Minh City megaregion in historical context: Doi Moi, planning and real estate
Thanh B. Nguyen, James H. Spencer and Tuan N. Pham


3. Planning Chongqing: between rural and urban
Asa Roast


4. A political-economic analysis of urban growth in Lahore
Nasir Javed


5. Simulation and modelling the urban dynamics in Bangalore
T.V. Ramachandra, H.A. Bharath, S. Vinay, and M.C. Chandan
Part II – Shaping the future: the legacy of spatial planning and master plans


6. Strategic planning and the challenges of spatial transformation in Johannesburg
Philip Harrison and Alison Todes


7. Spatial planning and development strategies in Dar es Salaam
Philip Omunga


8. Visioning urban growth in Chengdu: negotiation between local and central government
Yiping Fang and Zhenming Wu


9. Revisioning the sustainable megacity: the case of Wuhan
Dan Zhu and Michael Kung
Part III – Connecting the places: transportation and infrastructure challenges and strategies


10. Transportion planning and development in Bogotá: balancing the urgent and the strategic
Daniel Oviedo and Luis Guzman


11. Dynamics of commuting patterns during the period of rapid social transition in Beijing
Yunlei Qi and Tieshan Sun


12. Spatial transformation and debates on urban democracy: the case of Minhocão elevated highway, São Paulo
Laura Belik
Part IV – Confronting urban dualism in housing provision


13. Contradictions between global spaces and informal marginal settlements: the case of Kolkata
Siddhartha Sen and Sudeshna Ghosh


14. Megacities and slums: learning from Delhi’s experience
Susmita Rishi and Shruti Syal


15. Political and administrative constraints to housing provision in Karachi
Faisal Shaheen
Part V – Planning for resilience


16. Two decades of planning for earthquake resilience in Istanbul
Ayşın Dedekorkut-Howes, Deniz Ay, Başak Demireş-Özkul


17. Urban resilience and sustainable development trajectories: Insights from Dhaka
Saleh Ahmed


18. Climate adaptation policy development in the context of climate change and urbanization in Bangkok
Nurrohman Wijaya


19. Master plan of the sponge city construction in Shenzhen
Jian Liu, Na Li, and Lu Yu
Part VI – Democratizing planning processes


20. Dreaming the rational planning: participatory planning practices in São Paulo
Nilton Ricoy Torres


21. The emergence of participatory budgeting in Mexico City
Steven Schmidt and Jason C. Mueller


22. Institutional continuity and change: development control and regulatory detailed plan amendments in Beijing
Lei Zhang


23. Participatory governance in mitigating annual floods in Jakarta
Deden Rukmana and Galuh Syahbana Indraprahasta
Part VII – Planning megacities in the Global South: challenges, reconfigurations and initiatives


24. Challenges in managing urban growth: the case of Cairo
Amal K. Ali


25. Planning reconfigurations in a mega-event context: the case of Rio de Janeiro
Abigail Friendly


26. Planning initiatives and best practices in Ahmedabad
Jay Mittal and Sweta Byahut


27. Community governance in China’s land expropriation-induced resettlement neighborhoods: the case of Shanghai
Shuping Zhang and Zhu Qian


28. Urban Planning Practices in Lagos
Ismaila Rimi Abubakar, Taibat O. Lawanson and Abubakar S. Usman


29. Modernity and colonization in an African megacity: the case of Luanda

Ana Vaz Milheiro

About the author

Deden Rukmana is Professor and Chair of the Department of Community and Regional Planning at Alabama A&M University. He received a PhD degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Florida State University and completed Master’s degrees at the University of Southern California and Bandung Institute of Technology. His research centers on health disparities, homelessness, and poverty in the US, and spatial planning, housing, and development challenges in Indonesia. His work appears in journals such as International Planning Studies and Planning, Practice & Research. He also served as Co-Chair of the Global Planning Educators Interest Group of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (2015–2017).

Summary

The Routledge Handbook of Planning Megacities in the Global South provides rigorous comparative analyses, discussing the challenges, processes, best practices, and initiatives of urbanization in the Global South.

Additional text

"This handbook is a timely and significant contribution to understanding the current global urban transition. The world now has almost 4 billion urban residents, and current projections suggest that over the next 30-50 years that will double to about 8 billion. Almost all urban growth for the rest of this century is expected to occur in the global south, where processes of urbanization are fundamentally different and much faster than those in the global north. Anyone who is interested in the current urbanization processes transforming the globe should read this book."
—André Sorensen,Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto
"Megacities have become the determining factor of life in development of the Global South. The Routledge Handbook of Planning Megacities in the Global South provides the most comprehensive assessment available, planning drawing upon research by scholars working on 27 megacities. It is an essential resource for scholars and students."
—Christopher Silver, FAICP, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida
"This Routledge Handbook provides an impressively wide coverage of mega cities in the Global South. These 29 in-depth cases provide not only the grounded knowledge but also new insights on the challenges to growth management, housing provision, and resilience planning. This is a remarkable reference book for researchers in urban studies and planning."
—Fulong Wu, Bartlett Professor of Planning, University College London
"Understanding the dynamics propelling megacity-region growth and change seems urgent in this era of uncertainty. Deden Rukmana has edited a timely and useful volume, which highlights planning’s varied roles in megacities and governance, drawing from a novel set of established and emerging scholars from Global North and South institutions."
—Lois M. Takahashi, Houston Flournoy Professor of State Government,University of Southern California
"The Routledge Handbook of Planning Megacities in the Global South is an excellent collection of case studies by established and emerging scholars of urban studies, planning, and development from around the world. In the context of the upcoming urban transition in the Global South, it addresses a major gap by making scholarship on less researched megacities accessible in one volume."
—Vinit Mukhija, Professor and Chair, Department of Urban Planning, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
"The book fills a gap in the literature by exploring planning challenges and responses in a range of mega-cities (twenty-seven) across three southern continents, authored primarily by scholars from these regions. It contributes to a growing scholarship from a southern perspective and will be a hugely valuable resource for planners and urbanists."
—Vanessa Watson, Professor, School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, University of Cape Town

Product details

• Authors: Deden Rukmana, Deden (Department of Community and Region Rukmana
• Assisted by: Deden Rukmana (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9780367223724
• ISBN: 978-0-367-22372-4
• No. of pages: 450
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