Correction to: Theorising Urban Development From the Global South

Mohan, Anjali Karol; Pellissery, Sony; Aristizábal, Juliana Gómez

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“…Discussions revealed a nuanced understanding of the historical occupation of land and its role in water security within the settlement largely through wells, dadi's and the river. In restricting the human habitation to the tanr area -the highlands and, using the adjoining productive lowlands -the dons-solely for a variety of agricultural activities (thus catering to the food requirement), the communities ensured that wells, the river and the dadis remained alive (Mohan et al, 2021). A violation of this practicetriggered largely by unfettered urbanisation, increasing concretisation within the settlement and the presence of polluting activities in the vicinity of the well -disrupted access to and quality of water.…”

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Contextualizing Collaborative Planning: Addressing Water Resilience in the Urban Poor Settlements of Ranchi

Mohan¹

2023

Planning Theory

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The research embarks from the standpoint that unequal geographies of service delivery in the Southern city evidence differentiating practices embedded within dominant rational planning practices. It aligns and responds to the call of Southern urban theorists to develop alternative planning practices by anchoring within the socio- spatial specificities of Southern urbanisms. Foregrounding this objective, the research turns to the collaborative planning model and its pragmatic tradition of resisting the subjugating tendencies of instrumental rationality by admitting new ways of knowing and being from the life-world. Drawing upon a multi-actor collaboration that sought to address the circumstance of water insecurity in the urban poor settlements of Ranchi city, the research uses Healy’s (1997) Forum, Arena and Courts as entry points to frame on-ground recursive and collaborative interventions. These include unpacking the context to frame and implement interventions that sought to enhance water security while operationalising supporting actions that aim to sustain the interventions. Within this framing, the paper draws upon the critiques of the collaborative planning model as standpoints for contextual reinterpretation to foreground a) the importance of empowering strategic actors at the bottom of socio-political hierarchies to lead the process; b) conceptualize consensus as a process rather than an end-point recognizing its intrinsic relationship with conflict; and, c) institutionalizing formalized yet flexible processes for consensus-building. Overall the paper argues that collaborative planning with its focus on the particularities of place and on the human capacity to invent, create, and transform presents a viable starting point for resisting the dominating confines of instrumental rationality in significant ways.

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Contextualizing Collaborative Planning: Addressing Water Resilience in the Urban Poor Settlements of Ranchi

Mohan¹

2023

Planning Theory

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“…Without better terms, and to avoid repeatedly listing "Asia, Africa and Latin America" throughout the paper, I use the imperfect and certainly not neutral spatial constructs of the (global) south and north (cf Bhan et al, 2018;Mohan et al, 2021; . Parnell & Oldfield, 2014).2 For more details seeSimon et al (2006).3 I adopt the idea of "conceptual vectors" fromRoy (2009) andErnstson et al (2014).4 A more detailed debate about the concept of urbanization is beyond the scope of this paper (see, e.g.,Harvey, 1996;Brenner & Schmid, 2015;Davidson & Iveson, 2015).5 I chose these excellent peri-urban studies not to denounce, but rather to highlight how highly influential and thoughtful work on peri-urbanization has, so far, largely disregarded the questions of what distinguishes peri-urbanization from urbanization.6 I borrow the terminology of "not-quite-urban" fromLawhon (2020, p. 39).7 I am grateful to the anonymous reviewer suggesting this terminology, which perfectly describes this understanding.8 Suburbanization is generally understood as "the combination of non-centric population and economic growth with urban spatial expansion"(De Vidovich, 2019, p. 2, based upon Hamel & Keil, 2015.9 "(1) the speculative periphery;(2) the vanguard periphery;(3) the auto-constructed periphery; (4) the transitioning periphery; and (5) the inherited periphery"(Meth et al, 2021) …”

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“…1 1 Without better terms, and to avoid repeatedly listing “Asia, Africa and Latin America” throughout the paper, I use the imperfect and certainly not neutral spatial constructs of the (global) south and north (cf. Bhan et al., 2018; Mohan et al., 2021; Parnell & Oldfield, 2014). …”

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Geographies of peri‐urbanization in the global south

Follmann

2022

Geography Compass

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The term peri‐urbanization has been widely used to describe a range of different processes that transform rural areas to a mix of rural and urban spaces. Although there is a burgeoning literature on peri‐urbanization, the conceptual debate about peri‐urbanization's distinction from urbanization is rarely considered. It sometimes seems like whatever occurs at the urban periphery across the global south is labeled peri‐urbanization. This universalizing use of the term risks obscuring the existing diversities of rural‐to‐urban transformations. At the same time, it is empirically clear that the urban periphery of the global south hosts the most dynamic processes of urbanization in the contemporary world. It is also conceptually accepted that to better understand these diverse processes of urbanization, scholars must decenter global urban theory and build new vocabularies and theories from the south. Thus, there is doubt as to whether and to what extent a single concept like peri‐urbanization can capture the great diversity of rural‐to‐urban transformations across the global south. This critical review of the southern geographies of peri‐urbanization first identifies three interrelated conceptual vectors (territorial, functional, and transitional) for understanding the peri‐urban concept, and outlines recent developments in the field. Then, peri‐urbanization is reframed as an umbrella concept, which embraces multiple theoretical concepts and avoids the universalization inherent in much current usage. Finally, the paper reviews recent theoretical inquiries and new vocabularies of urbanization processes at the urban periphery, offering scope to theorize the heterogeneity of the geographies of peri‐urbanization in the global south.

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Correction to: Theorising Urban Development From the Global South

Abstract: The original version of the book was inadvertently published with incorrect author's last name in Chapters 1 and 8. The author's last name is corrected from 'X. M. Abad' to 'X. Méndez Abad'. The book has been updated with the changes.

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