Publication: Watson - Planning from the South: Learning from academia, praxis and activism
| dc.contributor.author | Kumar, Aditya | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ramesh, Ananya | |
| dc.contributor.author | Watson, Vanessa | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-06T11:59:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-11-06T11:59:18Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Vanessa Watson is Professor of City Planning in the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics and founder member of the African Centre for Cities, both at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She holds degrees from the Universities of Natal, Cape Town and the Architectural Association of London, and a PhD from the University of Witwatersrand, and is a Fellow of the University of Cape Town. Her research and publications have been on planning theory from a Global South perspective, African cities and urbanisation, food security, informality and currently on planning and corruption in Africa. More recently she has followed the new economic forces re-shaping African cities, in particular the private-sector driven property development initiatives. Watson is Global South Editor of Urban Studies and an editor of Planning Theory. She was the lead consultant for UN Habitat’s 2009 Global Report on Planning Sustainable Cities, was chair and co-chair of the Global Planning Education Association Network, and a founder of the Association of African Planning Schools. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/15 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | AESOP | |
| dc.rights.license | Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) | |
| dc.subject | Research Subject Categories::TECHNOLOGY::Industrial engineering and economy::Physical planning | |
| dc.title | Watson - Planning from the South: Learning from academia, praxis and activism | |
| dc.type | Book | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication |