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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- 01/01/2018
Routledge companion to planning in the Global South
- 01/01/2018
Localising SDGs for India: Setting the urban context
Recognising the importance of Indian urbanisation, disaggregating the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), targets and indicators for urban areas is necessary to enable localisation and assist in implementation. This document is an attempt to recognise the current status of sustainable development in India, using select indicators that are largely representative and practical to gather. It situates Indian states and localises metrics for their urban areas, in a national and regional context.
- 01/01/2019
Localising SDGs for India 2019: Tracking the changing urban context
This report is the 2019 update of the IIHS ‘Localising SDGs for India’ report, published in 2018, and it analyses SDG trends across the indicator set used in 2018, building on other reports in this space. It uses the 2018 India SDG Index rankings as a base, and reports states’ performance trends in relation to their current levels of development.
- 01/01/2019
Future challenges of cities in Asia
The 10 essays in Future Challenges of Cities in Asia engage with some of the most critical urban questions of the near future across Asia. These comprise socio-economic and cultural transitions as a result of urbanisation; environmental challenges, especially questions of climate change, natural disasters, and environmental justice; and the challenges of urban infrastructure, built form, and new emerging types of urban settlements. The essays demonstrate that it is increasingly difficult to conceptualize the ‘urban’ as one particular type of settlement. Rather, it would be more accurate to say that the ‘urban’ characterises a global transition in the way we are beginning to think about settlements. This book is of interest not only to researchers interested in comparative and interdisciplinary research, but also to urban practitioners more broadly, illustrating through concrete cases the challenges that urban regions in Asia and beyond are facing, and the various opportunities that exist for dealing with these challenges.
- 01/01/2019
River wedding
River Wedding is a beautiful collection of 74 poems (counting the End Note) that takes us through the pots and pans bustling in the kitchens, the birds hushing among “the limbs of painted trees”, the shadows of college lovers moving with the sun, a strange man disappearing into the buses, an old teacher pockmarked with time, an actor turning into a butterfly in the night’s silence—a miscellany of all that is transient.
- 01/01/2019
The state of household food security in Bangalore, India
This is the first large-scale survey of household food security in Bangalore and aims to provide researchers and policy-makers with detailed data and information about food security in Bangalore, as well as insights into the city’s food system. The survey found very low levels of food insecurity in Bangalore in terms of the availability and accessibility of food. However, the quality of diet varied considerably, with the household dietary diversity scores indicating that on average the households consumed foodstuffs from only six out of 12 food groups. The survey also provides important insights into the food purchasing behaviour of Bangalore households, including that the most frequented food sources in the city are small neighbourhood kirana shops, followed by dairy kiosks, informal carts, restaurants/cafés/bakeries, and meat shops. While there has been considerable controversy about the expansion of supermarkets in India, only 20% of the surveyed households shop for food at the major supermarket chains. Researchers found that small food outlets and informal vendors in markets and on the streets play a critical role in Bangalore’s food system and in ensuring the low levels of household food insecurity found in the city.
- 01/01/2020
Handbook of style and usage
The IIHS Handbook of Style and Usage is intended to establish certain basic stylistic conventions for all IIHS publications, to ensure consistency and to help writers edit their own work. This includes all reports, working papers, cases, policy briefs, books and other standalone texts published by IIHS.
- 01/01/2020
Inclusive growth and the informal food sector in Bangalore, India
The informal food sector is critical to the food security of poor urban households in rapidly growing towns and cities in the Global South. By working in an interdisciplinary context with mixed methodologies and across different cities, the Hungry Cities Partnership (HCP) aims to add considerably to our understanding of common elements and differences. The findings of the HCP’s informal food vendor survey in Bangalore shed light on the role of the informal economy in creating and facilitating employment opportunities for a large number of people, especially for those from poor and marginalized backgrounds. The survey results discussed in this report detail the profile, activities, motivations, challenges, and aspirations of the city’s food vendors and add significantly to the evidence base on which supportive policies can be constructed. Policies towards the informal food economy span the spectrum from complete non-interventionism to draconian attempts to control and even eliminate informality. The pathologizing and criminalization of the informal food sector is especially common at municipal level. Regulation through various legal and policy instruments is also a pervasive response to informality. If the informal food sector is to thrive, and provide opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship, then an enabling policy environment is essential.
- 01/01/2021
Land records modernisation: Bihar
This work provides an institutional, legal and policy review of crucial aspects of land records modernisation systems in Bihar. The state’s progress with land records modernisation efforts has been historically slow but in the last few years, it has taken long strides in computerisation of land records and associated processes, and is on the way to a more accessible land information system. Bihar is a significant example to understand that in certain parts of India, issues of land and property ownership are embedded in socio-historical conditions, which can be addressed only in part by current modernisation efforts. The state is undertaking an attempt to address some of these issues through a resurvey, supported by large scale strengthening of capacity, and legislative framework. The ability of the state to address multiple claims in a judicious and timebound manner would determine, to a large extent, how successful these ongoing surveys and computerisation initiatives will be.
Based on extensive on-ground research, this work is part of a five-volume set that presents a review of land records management processes, the status of current efforts to modernise land records, and relevant legislative changes across four states and at the national scale.
- 01/01/2021
Land records modernisation in India: Gujarat
This work provides an institutional, legal and policy review of crucial aspects of land records modernisation systems in Gujarat. Recognising the significance of land and its management for the state economy, Gujarat was among the early states to computerise its land records and processes and integrate them. In 2009, the state introduced resurveys using modern technology, which resulted in promulgation of updated records in more than sixty percent of villages, before being paused in 2018. Apart from political leadership, administrative initiatives such as documenting procedures and operational guidelines, incentivising of regular progress and reporting, and regular capacity building helped the state in making a significant progress. Gujarat is among the most urbanised and industrialised states in the country, and this volume presents case studies on the state of land and property records in urban and industrial areas, and the attempts to modernise them.
Based on extensive on-ground research, this work is part of a five-volume set that presents a review of land records management processes, the status of current efforts to modernise land records, and relevant legislative changes across four states and at the national scale.
- 01/01/2021
Land records modernisation in India: Himachal Pradesh
This work provides an institutional, legal and policy review of crucial aspects of land records modernisation systems in Himachal Pradesh. A state characterised by hilly terrain, high forest cover and low urbanisation, Himachal Pradesh provides useful lessons to understand the robustness and diversity of land record administration systems. The property regimes that have historically developed in the state include customary rights, common property resources, jointly held rights, and multiple other use and possession arrangements. There is a restriction on who can transact properties in the state, aimed at preventing alienation of land. Settlement operations are conducted every 40 years, and often take a long time to complete, but have led to relatively more up-to-date records than some other states. There are also concerns regarding the accuracy of spatial records, and data mismatches between textual and spatial components of the existing record versus the new technology led survey data if often is a cause of disputes.
Based on extensive on-ground research, this work is part of a five-volume set that presents a review of land records management processes, the status of current efforts to modernise land records, and relevant legislative changes across four states and at the national scale.
- 01/01/2021
Land records modernisation in India: Haryana
This work provides an institutional, legal and policy review of crucial aspects of land records modernisation systems in Haryana. The state offers a unique window into the regional diversity of land systems in India; it underwent a large-scale land consolidation exercise in 1950s, and features rectangular land parcels of equal area, and a share-system of joint landholdings with limited spatial demarcation. Technologically, the state has an integrated system of land record management, and continues to make advances. Haryana is also one of the country’s most prolific real estate markets, attracting some of the largest private sector investment. However, the land records management system remains primarily rural, and does not yet capture the realities of an urban property landscape and the transition into a fragmented, individualised private property system.
Based on extensive on-ground research, this work is part of a five-volume set that presents a review of land records management processes, the status of current efforts to modernise land records, and relevant legislative changes across four states and at the national scale.