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

by Richard de Satgé and Vanessa Watson

Book Overview

Addresses a major concern worldwide on planning African (and other global south) cities, especially since the adoption by the UN of the new Urban Sustainable Development Goal in 2016
Contributes to a current shift in planning theory away from its parochial global North focus to become more international
Contains fascinating detail on the lives of inhabitants of a Cape Town informal settlement as well as how the South African state has attempted to deal with such settlements

• 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"