Chandan Deuskar

Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This book draws from multiple disciplines and uses mixed methods to explore how politicians in developing democracies provide urban land and services to the poor in exchange for political support, how this impacts urban growth, and how urban planners can try to be more effective in this challenging political context"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Renewed Spirit Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 157mm x 229mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781512823066
• ISBN-10: 1512823066
• Artikelnr.: 63398659

Autorenporträt

Chandan Deuskar has several years of experience working on urban development in Asia, Africa, and elsewhere, with the World Bank and other organizations. He holds degrees in city planning and architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, MIT, and Columbia University. He was raised in Mumbai, India, and currently lives in Washington, DC.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The Challenge of Planning the Informal City
Part I. Global Patterns
1. The Conflict Between Informal Politics and Urban Planning Around the
World
2. The Global Relationship Between Clientelism and Urban Growth
3. Transitioning Away from Clientelism: Global Cases
Part II. Politics and Planning in Urban Ghana
4. Urban Informality and Planning Failure in Ghana
5. How Clientelism Undermines Planning in Ghana
6. Chiefs, Thugs, and Boundaries: Other Political Constraints to Planning
in Ghana
7. How Sodom and Gomorrah Survive: The Case of "Ghana's Biggest Slum"
Part III. Politically Adaptive Planning
8. Seeking a Way Forward for Planning
9. A Politically Adaptive Approach to Planning
Conclusion. Recognizing the Play Being Staged
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index Acknowledgments