ABSTRACT

Cities are now home to 55% of the world’s population, and that number is rising. Urban populations across the world will continue to grow, including in megacities with populations over ten million. In 2016 there were 31 megacities globally, according to the United Nations’ World Cities Report, with 24 of those cities located in the Global South. That number is expected to rise to 41 by 2030, with all ten new megacities in the Global South where the processes of urbanization are intrinsically distinct from those in the Global North.

The Routledge Handbook of Planning Megacities in the Global South provides rigorous comparative analyses, discussing the challenges, processes, best practices, and initiatives of urbanization in Middle America, South America, the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. This book is indispensable reading for students and scholars of urban planning, and its significance as a resource will only continue to grow as urbanization reshapes the global population.

Introduction

Deden Rukmana

Part I – Managing the urban growth

  1. The third wave of sprawl: the dynamics of peripheral growth in Buenos Aires

    2. Nora Libertun de Duren

  2. Development of the Ho Chi Minh City megaregion in historical context: Doi Moi, planning and real estate

    3. Thanh B. Nguyen, James H. Spencer and Tuan N. Pham

  3. Planning Chongqing: between rural and urban

    4. Asa Roast

  4. A political-economic analysis of urban growth in Lahore

    5. Nasir Javed

  5. Simulation and modelling the urban dynamics in Bangalore

    6. T.V. Ramachandra, H.A. Bharath, S. Vinay, and M.C. Chandan

    Part II – Shaping the future: the legacy of spatial planning and master plans

  6. Strategic planning and the challenges of spatial transformation in Johannesburg

    7. Philip Harrison and Alison Todes

  7. Spatial planning and development strategies in Dar es Salaam

    8. Philip Omunga

  8. Visioning urban growth in Chengdu: negotiation between local and central government

    9. Yiping Fang and Zhenming Wu

  9. Revisioning the sustainable megacity: the case of Wuhan

    10. Dan Zhu and Michael Kung

    Part III – Connecting the places: transportation and infrastructure challenges and strategies

  10. Transportion planning and development in Bogotá: balancing the urgent and the strategic

    11. Daniel Oviedo and Luis Guzman

  11. Dynamics of commuting patterns during the period of rapid social transition in Beijing

    12. Yunlei Qi and Tieshan Sun

  12. Spatial transformation and debates on urban democracy: the case of Minhocão elevated highway, São Paulo

    13. Laura Belik

    Part IV – Confronting urban dualism in housing provision

  13. Contradictions between global spaces and informal marginal settlements: the case of Kolkata

    14. Siddhartha Sen and Sudeshna Ghosh

  14. Megacities and slums: learning from Delhi’s experience

    15. Susmita Rishi and Shruti Syal

  15. Political and administrative constraints to housing provision in Karachi

    16. Faisal Shaheen

    Part V – Planning for resilience

  16. Two decades of planning for earthquake resilience in Istanbul

    17. Ayşın Dedekorkut-Howes, Deniz Ay, Başak Demireş-Özkul

  17. Urban resilience and sustainable development trajectories: Insights from Dhaka

    18. Saleh Ahmed

  18. Climate adaptation policy development in the context of climate change and urbanization in Bangkok

    19. Nurrohman Wijaya

  19. Master plan of the sponge city construction in Shenzhen

    20. Jian Liu, Na Li, and Lu Yu

    Part VI – Democratizing planning processes

  20. Dreaming the rational planning: participatory planning practices in São Paulo

    21. Nilton Ricoy Torres

  21. The emergence of participatory budgeting in Mexico City

    22. Steven Schmidt and Jason C. Mueller

  22. Institutional continuity and change: development control and regulatory detailed plan amendments in Beijing

    23. Lei Zhang

  23. Participatory governance in mitigating annual floods in Jakarta

    24. Deden Rukmana and Galuh Syahbana Indraprahasta

    Part VII – Planning megacities in the Global South: challenges, reconfigurations and initiatives

  24. Challenges in managing urban growth: the case of Cairo

    25. Amal K. Ali

  25. Planning reconfigurations in a mega-event context: the case of Rio de Janeiro

    26. Abigail Friendly

  26. Planning initiatives and best practices in Ahmedabad

    27. Jay Mittal and Sweta Byahut

  27. Community governance in China’s land expropriation-induced resettlement neighborhoods: the case of Shanghai

    28. Shuping Zhang and Zhu Qian

  28. Urban Planning Practices in Lagos

    29. Ismaila Rimi Abubakar, Taibat O. Lawanson and Abubakar S. Usman

  29. Modernity and colonization in an African megacity: the case of Luanda

Ana Vaz Milheiro

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