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ILAUD Reading List

An excellent compendium of cases of urban governance and planning in African cities. Open source 🎈:https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-06550-7.pdf

ILAUD Reading List

An interesting one for those working in emerging countries:

In many rapidly urbanizing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, local politics undermines the effectiveness of urban planning. Politicians have incentives to ignore formal urban plans and sideline planners, and instead provide urban land and services through informal channels in order to cultivate political constituencies (a form of what political scientists refer to as “clientelism”). This results in inequitable and environmentally damaging patterns of urban growth in some of the largest and most rapidly urbanizing countries in the world. The technocratic planning solutions often advocated by governments and international development organizations are not enough. To overcome this problem, urban planners must understand and adapt to the complex politics of urban informality.

ILAUD Reading List

Coming soon for MIT Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/just-urban-design

November 2022

ILAUD at WUF11

Presenting the Figuig Climate Studio at WUF11, the World Urban Forum in Katowice, UN-HABITAT.

A panel organized by GPEAN Global Planning Education Network & UNI Habitat.

Key message: The climate emergency pushes us to rethink planning paradigms and we need to co-develop new public narratives of inclusion, adaptation and resiliency.