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This book presents the concept of 'Hybrid Urbanisms' aiming to deconstruct the still-existing and often critiqued dualism of formalised and informalised practices in urban planning and infrastructure delivery.Using an innovative perspective, the book addresses this issue by focusing on the complex configurations in which both forms always co-exist and compete as powerful social constructs. It unveils the juxtaposition, simultaneity, dependency and intertwining of in-/formalised practices and highlights the relevance of this perspective to better understand urban development, especially in the global South. At the same time, the book focuses on secondary cities of Ghana and Peru that are often overlooked in the existing literature but play a relevant role in global urbanisation quantitively and qualitatively. In offering a comparative perspective on two very diverse geographical contexts, ten empirical studies are framed by a conceptualisation of 'Hybrid Urbanisms' and a concluding systematisation of perspectives on this central aspect of urban development. Taken together, this volume make an innovative contribution on how to produce new and more diverse urban theories of cities of the global South.This book is essential for scholars, students and practitioners in the fields of urban planning, urban studies, infrastructure studies and international cooperation alike. In addition, it will be of interest to those in the fields of urban sociology, public policy, urban geography and development studies.This publication was supported by funds from the Publication Fund for Open Access Monographs of the Federal State of Brandenburg, Germany and by the Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning of Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg.
List of contents
1.Introduction: Hybrid Urbanisms - deconstructing the dualism of in/formalised practices in planning and infrastructure delivery Part I - Ghana 2.Urban Development and Secondary Cities in Ghana: The Case of Sunyani 3.Navigating hybrid planning landscapes: Practices and legislation in urban land development in Ghana 4.Nuances of informal transport operation: examining 'floating drivers' on the Ejisu-Kumasi highway, Ghana 5.Exploring hybridity in the delivery configurations of mobility in Sunyani, Ghana: substitution, competition, complementarity 6.Shaping urban planning and infrastructural configurations through everyday practices and resistance: The case of the Bolgatanga Market reconstruction Part II - Peru 7.Planning frameworks under pressure: the legal hybridity framing Peruvian in/formal urban development 8.Urban transportation reform and the consolidation of a hybrid transport system in Peruvian Cities 9. Municipal housing programmes as hybrid urbanism. The case of Tacna, Peru 10.Huacho and the unequal production of pedestrian commuting to essential social services 11."We are not invasores, we are an asociación". Legal hybridity on the peripheries of Arequipa 12.Conclusion: Seeing hybridity through a comparative lens - perspectives on urban development in secondary cities of Ghana and Peru
