Routledge Handbook of Planning Megacities in the Global South

Deden Rukmana is Professor and Chair of the Department of Community and Regional Planning at Alabama A&M University. He received a PhD degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Florida State University and completed Master’s degrees at the University of Southern California and Bandung Institute of Technology. His research centers on health disparities, homelessness, and poverty in the US, and spatial planning, housing, and development challenges in Indonesia. His work appears in journals such as International Planning Studies and Planning, Practice & Research. He also served as Co-Chair of the Global Planning Educators Interest Group of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (2015–2017).

• IntroductionDeden RukmanaPart I – Managing the urban growth The third wave of sprawl: the dynamics of peripheral growth in Buenos AiresNora Libertun de Duren Development of the Ho Chi Minh City megaregion in historical context: Doi Moi, planning and real estateThanh B. Nguyen, James H. Spencer and Tuan N. Pham Planning Chongqing: between rural and urbanAsa Roast A political-economic analysis of urban growth in Lahore Nasir Javed Simulation and modelling the urban dynamics in BangaloreT.V. Ramachandra, H.A. Bharath, S. Vinay, and M.C. ChandanPart II – Shaping the future: the legacy of spatial planning and master plans Strategic planning and the challenges of spatial transformation in JohannesburgPhilip Harrison and Alison Todes Spatial planning and development strategies in Dar es Salaam Philip Omunga Visioning urban growth in Chengdu: negotiation between local and central governmentYiping Fang and Zhenming Wu Revisioning the sustainable megacity: the case of WuhanDan Zhu and Michael KungPart III – Connecting the places: transportation and infrastructure challenges and strategies Transportion planning and development in Bogotá: balancing the urgent and the strategicDaniel Oviedo and Luis Guzman Dynamics of commuting patterns during the period of rapid social transition in BeijingYunlei Qi and Tieshan Sun Spatial transformation and debates on urban democracy: the case of Minhocão elevated highway, São PauloLaura BelikPart IV – Confronting urban dualism in housing provision Contradictions between global spaces and informal marginal settlements: the case of Kolkata Siddhartha Sen and Sudeshna Ghosh Megacities and slums: learning from Delhi’s experienceSusmita Rishi and Shruti Syal Political and administrative constraints to housing provision in KarachiFaisal ShaheenPart V – Planning for resilience Two decades of planning for earthquake resilience in IstanbulAyşın Dedekorkut-Howes, Deniz Ay, Başak Demireş-Özkul Urban resilience and sustainable development trajectories: Insights from DhakaSaleh Ahmed Climate adaptation policy development in the context of climate change and urbanization in BangkokNurrohman Wijaya Master plan of the sponge city construction in ShenzhenJian Liu, Na Li, and Lu YuPart VI – Democratizing planning processes Dreaming the rational planning: participatory planning practices in São PauloNilton Ricoy Torres The emergence of participatory budgeting in Mexico CitySteven Schmidt and Jason C. Mueller Institutional continuity and change: development control and regulatory detailed plan amendments in BeijingLei Zhang Participatory governance in mitigating annual floods in JakartaDeden Rukmana and Galuh Syahbana IndraprahastaPart VII – Planning megacities in the Global South: challenges, reconfigurations and initiatives Challenges in managing urban growth: the case of CairoAmal K. Ali Planning reconfigurations in a mega-event context: the case of Rio de JaneiroAbigail Friendly Planning initiatives and best practices in AhmedabadJay Mittal and Sweta Byahut Community governance in China’s land expropriation-induced resettlement neighborhoods: the case of ShanghaiShuping Zhang and Zhu Qian Urban Planning Practices in LagosIsmaila Rimi Abubakar, Taibat O. Lawanson and Abubakar S. Usman Modernity and colonization in an African megacity: the case of LuandaAna Vaz Milheiro

"This handbook is a timely and significant contribution to understanding the current global urban transition. The world now has almost 4 billion urban residents, and current projections suggest that over the next 30-50 years that will double to about 8 billion. Almost all urban growth for the rest of this century is expected to occur in the global south, where processes of urbanization are fundamentally different and much faster than those in the global north. Anyone who is interested in the current urbanization processes transforming the globe should read this book."—André Sorensen, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto "Megacities have become the determining factor of life in development of the Global South. The Routledge Handbook of Planning Megacities in the Global South provides the most comprehensive assessment available, planning drawing upon research by scholars working on 27 megacities. It is an essential resource for scholars and students."—Christopher Silver, FAICP, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida"This Routledge Handbook provides an impressively wide coverage of mega cities in the Global South. These 29 in-depth cases provide not only the grounded knowledge but also new insights on the challenges to growth management, housing provision, and resilience planning. This is a remarkable reference book for researchers in urban studies and planning."—Fulong Wu, Bartlett Professor of Planning, University College London"Understanding the dynamics propelling megacity-region growth and change seems urgent in this era of uncertainty. Deden Rukmana has edited a timely and useful volume, which highlights planning’s varied roles in megacities and governance, drawing from a novel set of established and emerging scholars from Global North and South institutions."—Lois M. Takahashi, Houston Flournoy Professor of State Government, University of Southern California"The Routledge Handbook of Planning Megacities in the Global South is an excellent collection of case studies by established and emerging scholars of urban studies, planning, and development from around the world. In the context of the upcoming urban transition in the Global South, it addresses a major gap by making scholarship on less researched megacities accessible in one volume."—Vinit Mukhija, Professor and Chair, Department of Urban Planning, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs"The book fills a gap in the literature by exploring planning challenges and responses in a range of mega-cities (twenty-seven) across three southern continents, authored primarily by scholars from these regions. It contributes to a growing scholarship from a southern perspective and will be a hugely valuable resource for planners and urbanists."—Vanessa Watson, Professor, School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, University of Cape Town"One of the key contributions of this book is that it presents wide range of historically-informed snapshots of trends in contemporary planning and development in megacities in the Global South. It is rare to have such a generous helping of comparative empirical knowledge and analysis presented in one single book in an easy to read format. As such, this book offers an opportunity to the reader to reflect on, and develop new research questions in the area of comparative urban development in the Global South."—Faizan Jawed Siddiqi, Lecturer, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA