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2018 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
1. Introduction
verfasst von : Richard de Satgé, Vanessa Watson
Erschienen in: Urban Planning in the Global South
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Abstract
This chapter sets out the purpose of the book, the methods used to generate the research, the background of the authors and the sequencing of the chapters. It opens with the following questions: how different does planning theory and practice need to be when it happens in different parts of the world, and to what extent does planning require a deep understanding of the context in which it proposes to intervene and how should this understanding shape what planners do? It explains that the book aims to foreground the importance of recognizing place and location in planning if it is to achieve the kinds of ambitions which it usually sets itself and avoid the unintended consequences which so often ensue.
Framed within a wider shift across a range of disciplines, including planning, which consider how perspectives from the global South might be different, the chapter explains the book’s intention to test the concept of conflicting rationalities in planning, and to use a case study of a public housing megaproject in a poor township of Cape Town (South Africa) to consider this concept. It asks how this idea might need to be expanded and elaborated if it is to have value in understanding and acting on state-society relations in global South planning interventions.