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Originally published in 1990, Urban Markets looks at how the
informal sector of the economy should be encouraged to assist in
the alleviation of problems of poverty and unemployment. Despite
this rhetoric, few concrete, implementable ways have been
developed. This book is concerned with one such potential strategy
which the authors consider to be particularly effective: the
creation of both built and open markets for very small retailers
and wholesalers. Based on experience of observing such markets in
several continents, the authors combine a discussion of the
theoretical issues surrounding the creation of urban markets with
practical hints of how to establish and run them.
Originally published in 1986. This book focusses on a critical
analysis of regional development strategy in South Africa, and
shifts over time in that strategy. Regional development theory and
thinking about settlement policy have developed largely
independently of each other. This book clarifies some of the
resulting confusion and points towards a greater integration of the
two areas of understanding. The book provides an overview of shifts
which occurred in national and regional development theory and the
broader social, economic and political factors which influenced
these shifts. It identifies the major policy implications of the
various development approaches, with particular emphasis placed on
the role of settlement policy. The differences between policy
approaches and the debates surrounding them are identified and
discussed.
Originally published in 1986. This book focusses on a critical
analysis of regional development strategy in South Africa, and
shifts over time in that strategy. Regional development theory and
thinking about settlement policy have developed largely
independently of each other. This book clarifies some of the
resulting confusion and points towards a greater integration of the
two areas of understanding. The book provides an overview of shifts
which occurred in national and regional development theory and the
broader social, economic and political factors which influenced
these shifts. It identifies the major policy implications of the
various development approaches, with particular emphasis placed on
the role of settlement policy. The differences between policy
approaches and the debates surrounding them are identified and
discussed.
Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning offers a new selection of
the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's
planning school associations. The award winning papers presented
illustrate the concerns and the discourse of planning scholarship
communities and provide a glimpse into planning theory and practice
by planning academics around the world. All those with an interest
in urban and regional planning will find this collection valuable
in opening new avenues for research and debate. This book is
published in association with the Global Planning Education
Association Network (GPEAN), and the nine planning school
associations it represents, who have selected these papers based on
regional competitions.
As Africa urbanises and the focus of poverty shifts to urban
centres, there is an imperative to address poverty in African
cities. This is particularly the case in smaller cities, which are
often the most rapidly urbanising, but the least able to cope with
this growth. This book argues that an examination of the food
system and food security provides a valuable lens to interrogate
urban poverty. Chapters examine the linkages between poverty, urban
food systems and local governance with a focus on case studies from
three smaller or secondary cities in Africa: Kisumu (Kenya), Kitwe
(Zambia) and Epworth (Zimbabwe). The book makes a wider
contribution to debates on urban studies and urban governance in
Africa through analysis of the causes and consequences of the
paucity of urban-scale data for decision makers, and by presenting
potential methodological innovations to address this paucity. As
the global development agenda is increasingly focusing on urban
issues, most notably the urban goal of the new Sustainable
Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda, the work is timely. The
Open Access version of this book, available at:
http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315191195, has been
made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
In the years after the 1994 transition to democracy in South
Africa, planners were convinced that they would be able to
successfully promote a vision of integrated, equitable and
sustainable cities, and counter the spatial distortions created by
apartheid. This book explores the experience of planning in South
Africa during the ten years from 1994, with the aim of contributing
to key international debates in planning theory. The authors argue
that, because of the highly fluid nature of South African society
during these last ten years, this country provides a useful
'laboratory' in which to explore the possibilities of achievement
in the planning field. Thus while many of the factors which have
affected planning have been context-specific, the nature of South
Africa's transition and its relationship to global dynamics have
meant that many of the issues which confront planners in other
parts of the world are echoed here as well. Issues of governance,
integration, market competitiveness, sustainability, democracy and
values are as significant here as they are elsewhere, and the
particular nature of the South African experience lends new
insights to thinking on these questions.
The book is subdivided into sections which reflect the main themes
in international planning debates. After Part A, which sets the
scene in terms of the overall objectives of the book and the
changing nature of planning under apartheid and in the
post-apartheid era, the sections deal with:
Planning and governance, including planning at the local, regional,
national and transnational scales;
Discourses of planning, including those of spatial frameworks,
integration and transformation, planning'srelationship to the
market, and discourses related to environment and
sustainability;
Planning and society, including professionalism, education,
planning values, its response to diversity and informality, and to
the big social issues of AIDS, poverty and crime
A concluding section considers the power of planning in the South
African context and the limits to its power.
Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning offers a new selection of
the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's
planning school associations. The award winning papers presented
illustrate the concerns and the discourse of planning scholarship
communities and provide a glimpse into planning theory and practice
by planning academics around the world. All those with an interest
in urban and regional planning will find this collection valuable
in opening new avenues for research and debate.
This book is published in association with the Global Planning
Education Association Network (GPEAN), and the nine planning school
associations it represents, who have selected these papers based on
regional competitions.
Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning offers a selection of the
best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning
scholarship communities. The papers presented illustrate the
concerns and the discourse of planning scholarship communities and
provide a glimpse into planning theory and practice by planning
academics around the world. Readers will find this useful
collection an insight into the international planning community,
which sets the agenda for future debate. This book has been put
together by the Global Planning Education Association Network
(GPEAN). The nine member associations of GPEAN are: the Association
of African Planning Schools (AAPS), the Association of Collegiate
Schools of Planning (ACSP) in USA, the Association of Canadian
University Planning Programs (ACUPP), the Association of European
Schools of Planning (AESOP), the Association of Latin American
Schools of Urban Planning (ALEUP), the National Association of
Urban and Regional Post graduate and Research Programs (ANPUR)in
Brazil, the Australia and New Zealand Association of Planning
Schools (ANZAPS), the Association for the Development of Planning
Education and Research (APERAU), and the Asi
Change and Continuity in Spatial Planning addresses a question of enduring interest to planners: can planning really bring about significant and positive change? In South Africa the process of political transition appeared to create the preconditions for planners to demonstrate how their traditional humanitarian and environmental concerns could find concrete expression in the reshaping of the built environment. Integral to this story is how planning practices have been shaped by the past, in a rapidly changing context characterised by a globalising economy, new systems of governance, a changing political ideology, and a culture of intensifying poverty and diversity. More broadly, the book addresses the issue of how planners use power, in situations which themselves represent networks of power relations, where both planners and those they engage with operate through frames of reference fundamentally shaped by place and history.
In the years after the 1994 transition to democracy in South
Africa, planners were convinced that they would be able to
successfully promote a vision of integrated, equitable and
sustainable cities, and counter the spatial distortions created by
apartheid. This book explores the experience of planning in South
Africa during the ten years from 1994, with the aim of contributing
to key international debates in planning theory. The authors argue
that, because of the highly fluid nature of South African society
during these last ten years, this country provides a useful
'laboratory' in which to explore the possibilities of achievement
in the planning field. Thus while many of the factors which have
affected planning have been context-specific, the nature of South
Africa's transition and its relationship to global dynamics have
meant that many of the issues which confront planners in other
parts of the world are echoed here as well. Issues of governance,
integration, market competitiveness, sustainability, democracy and
values are as significant here as they are elsewhere, and the
particular nature of the South African experience lends new
insights to thinking on these questions.
The book is subdivided into sections which reflect the main themes
in international planning debates. After Part A, which sets the
scene in terms of the overall objectives of the book and the
changing nature of planning under apartheid and in the
post-apartheid era, the sections deal with:
Planning and governance, including planning at the local, regional,
national and transnational scales;
Discourses of planning, including those of spatial frameworks,
integration and transformation, planning'srelationship to the
market, and discourses related to environment and
sustainability;
Planning and society, including professionalism, education,
planning values, its response to diversity and informality, and to
the big social issues of AIDS, poverty and crime
A concluding section considers the power of planning in the South
African context and the limits to its power.
The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South offers an
edited collection on planning in parts of the world which, more
often than not, are unrecognised or unmarked in mainstream planning
texts. In doing so, its intention is not to fill a 'gap' that
leaves this 'mainstream' unquestioned but to re-theorise planning
from a deep understanding of 'place' as well as a commitment to
recognise the diverse modes of practice that come within it. The
chapters thus take the form not of generalised, 'universal'
analyses and prescriptions, but instead are critical and located
reflections in thinking about how to plan, act and intervene in
highly complex city, regional and national contexts. Chapter
authors in this Companion are not all planners, or are planners of
very different kinds, and this diversity ensures a rich variety of
insights, primarily based on cases, to emphasise the complexity of
the world in which planning is expected to happen. The book is
divided into a framing Introduction followed by five sections:
planning and the state; economy and economic actors; new drivers of
urban change; landscapes of citizenship; and planning pedagogy.
This volume will be of interest to all those wanting to explore the
complexities of planning practice and the need for new theories of
knowledge from which to draw insight to face the challenges of the
21st century.
The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory presents key contemporary
themes in planning theory through the views of some of the most
innovative thinkers in planning. They introduce and explore their
own specialized areas of planning theory, to conceptualize their
contemporary positions and to speculate how these positions are
likely to evolve and change as new challenges emerge. In a changing
and often unpredictable globalized world, planning theory is core
to understanding how planning and its practices both function and
evolve. As illustrated in this book, planning and its many roles
have changed profoundly over the recent decades; so have the
theories, both critical and explanatory, about its practices,
values and knowledges. In the context of these changes, and to
contribute to the development of planning research, this handbook
identifies and introduces the cutting edge, and the new emerging
trajectories, of contemporary planning theory. The aim is to
provide the reader with key insights into not just contemporary
planning thought, but potential future directions of both planning
theory and planning as a whole. This book is written for an
international readership, and includes planning theories that
address, or have emerged from, both the global North and parts of
the world beyond.
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 Satge and Watson posit that a significant
change is needed in the makeup of urban planning theory and
practice - requiring an understanding of the 'conflict of
rationalities' between state planning and those struggling to
survive in urban informal settlements - for social conditions to
improve in the global South. Ethnography, as illustrated in the
book's case study - Langa, a township in Cape Town, South Africa -
is used to arrive at this conclusion. The authors are thus able to
demonstrate how power and conflict between the ambitions of state
planners and shack-dwellers, attempting to survive in a
resource-poor context, have permeated and shaped all state-society
engagement in this planning process.
The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory presents key contemporary
themes in planning theory through the views of some of the most
innovative thinkers in planning. They introduce and explore their
own specialized areas of planning theory, to conceptualize their
contemporary positions and to speculate how these positions are
likely to evolve and change as new challenges emerge. In a changing
and often unpredictable globalized world, planning theory is core
to understanding how planning and its practices both function and
evolve. As illustrated in this book, planning and its many roles
have changed profoundly over the recent decades; so have the
theories, both critical and explanatory, about its practices,
values and knowledges. In the context of these changes, and to
contribute to the development of planning research, this handbook
identifies and introduces the cutting edge, and the new emerging
trajectories, of contemporary planning theory. The aim is to
provide the reader with key insights into not just contemporary
planning thought, but potential future directions of both planning
theory and planning as a whole. This book is written for an
international readership, and includes planning theories that
address, or have emerged from, both the global North and parts of
the world beyond.
Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning offers a selection of the
best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning
school associations. The award-winning papers presented illustrate
the concerns and the discourse of planning scholarship communities
and provide a glimpse into planning theory and practice by planning
academics around the world. All those with an interest in urban and
regional planning will find this collection valuable in opening new
avenues for research and debate. Set in context by the editors'
introductory chapter, these essays draw on local concerns but also
reflect international issues. These include the relationship
between planning and economy; concerns over the environment and
conservation; the nature of the planning process and
decision-making, and the effects of power on planned change. This
book is published in association with the Global Planning Education
Association Network (GPEAN), and the nine planning school
associations it represents, who have selected these papers based on
regional competitions.
As Africa urbanises and the focus of poverty shifts to urban
centres, there is an imperative to address poverty in African
cities. This is particularly the case in smaller cities, which are
often the most rapidly urbanising, but the least able to cope with
this growth. This book argues that an examination of the food
system and food security provides a valuable lens to interrogate
urban poverty. Chapters examine the linkages between poverty, urban
food systems and local governance with a focus on case studies from
three smaller or secondary cities in Africa: Kisumu (Kenya), Kitwe
(Zambia) and Epworth (Zimbabwe). The book makes a wider
contribution to debates on urban studies and urban governance in
Africa through analysis of the causes and consequences of the
paucity of urban-scale data for decision makers, and by presenting
potential methodological innovations to address this paucity. As
the global development agenda is increasingly focusing on urban
issues, most notably the urban goal of the new Sustainable
Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda, the work is timely. The
Open Access version of this book, available at:
http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315191195, has been
made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Originally published in 1990, Urban Markets looks at how the
informal sector of the economy should be encouraged to assist in
the alleviation of problems of poverty and unemployment. Despite
this rhetoric, few concrete, implementable ways have been
developed. This book is concerned with one such potential strategy
which the authors consider to be particularly effective: the
creation of both built and open markets for very small retailers
and wholesalers. Based on experience of observing such markets in
several continents, the authors combine a discussion of the
theoretical issues surrounding the creation of urban markets with
practical hints of how to establish and run them.
Change and Continuity in Spatial Planning addresses a question of enduring interest to planners: can planning really bring about significant and positive change? In South Africa the process of political transition appeared to create the preconditions for planners to demonstrate how their traditional humanitarian and environmental concerns could find concrete expression in the reshaping of the built environment. Integral to this story is how planning practices have been shaped by the past, in a rapidly changing context characterised by a globalising economy, new systems of governance, a changing political ideology, and a culture of intensifying poverty and diversity. More broadly, the book addresses the issues of how planners use power, in situations which themselves represent networks of power relations, where both planners and those they engage with operate through frames of reference fundamentally shaped by place and history.
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 Satge and Watson posit that a significant
change is needed in the makeup of urban planning theory and
practice - requiring an understanding of the 'conflict of
rationalities' between state planning and those struggling to
survive in urban informal settlements - for social conditions to
improve in the global South. Ethnography, as illustrated in the
book's case study - Langa, a township in Cape Town, South Africa -
is used to arrive at this conclusion. The authors are thus able to
demonstrate how power and conflict between the ambitions of state
planners and shack-dwellers, attempting to survive in a
resource-poor context, have permeated and shaped all state-society
engagement in this planning process.
The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South offers an
edited collection on planning in parts of the world which, more
often than not, are unrecognised or unmarked in mainstream planning
texts. In doing so, its intention is not to fill a 'gap' that
leaves this 'mainstream' unquestioned but to re-theorise planning
from a deep understanding of 'place' as well as a commitment to
recognise the diverse modes of practice that come within it. The
chapters thus take the form not of generalised, 'universal'
analyses and prescriptions, but instead are critical and located
reflections in thinking about how to plan, act and intervene in
highly complex city, regional and national contexts. Chapter
authors in this Companion are not all planners, or are planners of
very different kinds, and this diversity ensures a rich variety of
insights, primarily based on cases, to emphasise the complexity of
the world in which planning is expected to happen. The book is
divided into a framing Introduction followed by five sections:
planning and the state; economy and economic actors; new drivers of
urban change; landscapes of citizenship; and planning pedagogy.
This volume will be of interest to all those wanting to explore the
complexities of planning practice and the need for new theories of
knowledge from which to draw insight to face the challenges of the
21st century.
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