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There has been a growing recognition that planning ideas emerging from the industrialised economies of the 'Global North' are not necessarily appropriate in regions of the world with very different social, political and economic contexts. This books seeks to respond to this set of challenges by showcasing the planning ideas from, and of, the parts of the world usually at the margins of planning knowledge production. It does so to begin to build an epistemic project in thinking from "here" which gives us new concepts, emphases or approaches that emerge from cities and urban regions. It does so…mehr

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There has been a growing recognition that planning ideas emerging from the industrialised economies of the 'Global North' are not necessarily appropriate in regions of the world with very different social, political and economic contexts. This books seeks to respond to this set of challenges by showcasing the planning ideas from, and of, the parts of the world usually at the margins of planning knowledge production. It does so to begin to build an epistemic project in thinking from "here" which gives us new concepts, emphases or approaches that emerge from cities and urban regions. It does so in close conversation with actually existing practices of institutional and professional planning.
Autorenporträt
Gautam Bhan is Lead, Academics and Research, at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and is most recently the author of In the Public's Interest: Evictions, Citizenship and Inequality in Contemporary Delhi (2016). Smita Srinivas is an economic development scholar with a PhD from MIT. She is Visiting Professor of Economics and IKD Centre, Open University, UK, and Senior Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science. Her last book Market Menagerie (Stanford University Press 2012) won the EAEPE 2015 Myrdal Prize. Vanessa Watson is professor of city planning at the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and is a Fellow of this University. She holds degrees, including a PhD, from South African universities and the Architectural Association of London and is on the executive of the African Centre for Cities.