Planning and Decentralization: Contested Spaces for Public Action in the Global South

by Beard; Victoria

• ISBN13: 9780415414982
• ISBN10: 0415414989
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-07-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The first in-depth study of the impact of economic and political decentralization on planning practice in developing economies, this innovative volume, using original case study research by leading experts drawn from diverse fields of inquiry, from planning to urban studies, geography and economics, explores the dramatic transformation that decentralization implies in responsibilities of the local planning and governance structures.

Table of Contents

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Introduction: situating contested notions of decentralized planning in the global south	p. 1
Decentralization: contexts and outcomes	p. 19
Decentralization and entrepreneurial planning	p. 21
Decentralization, privatization and countervailing popular pressure: South African water commodification and decommodification	p. 36
Decentralized planning and metropolitan growth: poverty and wealth in Buenos Aires suburbs	p. 55
New spaces, new contests: appropriating decentralization for political change in Bolivia	p. 69
The challenges of fiscal and administrative decentralization	p. 87
The evolution of subnational development planning under decentralization reforms in Kenya and Uganda	p. 89
Decentralization in Vietnam's water sector: community level privatization in the Mekong Delta	p. 106
Decentralization and local democracy in Chile: two active communities and two models of local governance	p. 119
The role of civil society and community actors in decentralization	p. 135
Community-driven development and elite capture: microcredit and community board participation in Indonesia	p. 137
University-community partnership: institutionalizing empowered and participatory planning in Indonesia	p. 158
En(gendering) effective decentralization: the experience of women in Panchavati Raj in India	p. 175
Decentralization and social capital in urban Thailand	p. 188
Decentralization and the struggle for participation in local politics and planning: Lessons from Naga City, the Philippines	p. 204
Conclusion: making sense of decentralized planning in the global south	p. 216
Index	p. 225
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