Edited By Christian Rosen, Nina Gribat
This book presents the concept of ‘Hybrid Urbanisms’ aiming to deconstruct the still-existing and often critiqued dualism of formalised and informalised practices in urban planning and infrastructure delivery. Using an innovative perspective, the book addresses this issue by focusing on the complex configurations in which both forms always co-exist and compete as powerful social constructs. It unveils the juxtaposition, simultaneity, dependency and intertwining of in-/formalised practices and highlights the relevance of the hybrid urbanisms perspective to better understand urban development, especially in the global South. At the same time, the book focuses on secondary cities of Ghana and Peru that are often overlooked in the existing literature but play a relevant role in global urbanisation quantitively and qualitatively. In offering a comparative perspective on two very diverse geographical contexts, ten empirical studies are framed by a conceptualisation of ‘Hybrid Urbanisms’ and a concluding systematisation of perspectives on this central aspect of urban development. Taken together, this volume makes an innovative contribution on how to produce new and more diverse urban theories of cities of the global South.
The Hybrid Urbanisms research project was funded by DFG – The German Research Foundation (project number. 458375534, https://hybridurbanisms.org). We were able to publish the book in open access thanks to the support of the Publication Fund for Open Access Monographs of the Federal State of Brandenburg, Germany and by the Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning of Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg.
English
194 pages
Routledge, London
1st edition, 2025
ISBN 1032840862
Open Access