Decolonizing Planning Power and Knowledge in the Informal City
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Edited by Bjørn Sletto, Community and Regional Planning, University of Texas at Austin, USA, Tanja Winkler, School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, University of Cape Town, South Africa and Efadul Huq, Program in Environmental Science and Policy, Smith College, USA<i>‘A shape is cut at the edges, not the center. For planning, the practice, pedagogy, and knowledge of city building have long been shaped at the edges of urban life among marginalized communities. Through struggle and practice, resistance and insurgence, and daily care, these communities produce ways of knowing and building that have always shaped cities despite (not because of) what is taught and advocated, what is legitimized and justified, in planning institutions at the center. This co-edited volume, composed of chapters co-authored with community partners, exemplifies anticolonial knowledge co-production, bringing the excitement of shapes formed at the edges of urban communities across the world, along with the refusal of despair and a radical hope for a different planning. Decolonizing Planning: Power and Knowledge in the Informal City is an important book for all who refuse to accept planning as it is and who recognize how anticolonial insurgent planning practices are re-shaping the field.’</i>
- Faranak Miraftab, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA,
With contributions from scholars and their community partners working in marginalized societies across the globe, the book presents diverse approaches to planning from transnational and transdisciplinary perspectives. Chapters draw on detailed case studies to examine a wide range of methodologies and praxes, including planning derived from Indigenous epistemologies and the role of grassroots planners. They cut across traditional categories, modes of planning, and regional divisions, rethinking dominant paradigms and highlighting the value of decolonial thinking in the field.
Students and scholars in planning, urban geography, development studies and urban design will greatly benefit from the cutting-edge insights presented in this book. It is also a useful resource for planning practitioners, as well as professionals in international development agencies and NGOs working with low-income communities, particularly in the Global South.