Guma, P.K. orcid.org/0000-0001-8511-5664 (2021) Recasting provisional urban worlds in the global south: shacks, shanties and micro-stalls. Planning Theory & Practice, 22 (2). pp. 211-226. ISSN 1464-9357
Abstract
This article contributes to ongoing calls that provoke a recasting of provisional urban worlds in the global South. I draw from informal and transient structures–shacks, shanties, micro-stalls–in Kibera, a high-density settlement in Nairobi, to offer an explication of provisional worlds that transcends teleological conceptions of what constitutes ‘the urban’. I argue that while often disregarded, sidelined, and marginalized in formal planning and city-making processes, informal and transient structures offer viable alternatives amidst the usually exclusionary nature of neoliberal and market-oriented interventions. As such, they instigate a mode of practice that speaks to different ways of being-in-the-world.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. |
Keywords: | Southern urban practice; provisional urban worlds; built environment; planning; Nairobi city |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Research Institutes Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 24 Nov 2023 15:24 |
Last Modified: | 24 Nov 2023 15:24 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Informa UK Limited |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/14649357.2021.1894348 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:205868 |