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

by Richard de Satgé and Vanessa Watson

Book Overview

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 Satg and Watson posit that a significant change is needed in the makeup of urban planning theory...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319694952
• ISBN13: 9783319694955
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"