Hybrid Urbanisms in Secondary Cities of the Global South

Insights from Urban Planning and Infrastructure Delivery in Ghana and Peru
Herausgeber: Rosen, Christian; Gribat, Nina

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents the concept of "Hybrid Urbanisms" aiming to deconstruct the still existing and often critiqued dualism of formalised and informalised practices in urban planning and infrastructure delivery.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 461g
• ISBN-13: 9781032840864
• ISBN-10: 1032840862
• Artikelnr.: 72656479

Autorenporträt

Christian Rosen is a sociologist, postdoctoral researcher and principle investigator in the Hybrid Urbanisms project at Technical University of Darmstadt. He obtained his PhD from Frankfurt University. His research interests include urban development practices, especially in the global South, secondary cities, comparative research, political sociology and spatial theory. Nina Gribat is professor of urban planning at Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany. Her research interests include hybrid urbanisms and infrastructural delivery configurations in the global South; governance and planning in small towns; and cultural actor networks in rural areas. Nina is a member of the editorial collective of the open-access journal sub\urban zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung (www.zeitschrift-suburban.de).

Inhaltsangabe

1.Introduction: Hybrid Urbanisms - deconstructing the dualism of
in/formalised practices in planning and infrastructure delivery Part I -
Ghana 2.Urban Development and Secondary Cities in Ghana: The Case of
Sunyani 3.Navigating hybrid planning landscapes: Practices and legislation
in urban land development in Ghana 4.Nuances of informal transport
operation: examining 'floating drivers' on the Ejisu-Kumasi highway, Ghana
5.Exploring hybridity in the delivery configurations of mobility in
Sunyani, Ghana: substitution, competition, complementarity 6.Shaping urban
planning and infrastructural configurations through everyday practices and
resistance: The case of the Bolgatanga Market reconstruction Part II - Peru
7.Planning frameworks under pressure: the legal hybridity framing Peruvian
in/formal urban development 8.Urban transportation reform and the
consolidation of a hybrid transport system in Peruvian Cities 9. Municipal
housing programmes as hybrid urbanism. The case of Tacna, Peru 10.Huacho
and the unequal production of pedestrian commuting to essential social
services 11."We are not invasores, we are an asociación". Legal hybridity
on the peripheries of Arequipa 12.Conclusion: Seeing hybridity through a
comparative lens - perspectives on urban development in secondary cities of
Ghana and Peru