Thinking Cities: Debating Just Development in the Global South

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• Levy, C, & Dávila, J. D. (2017). Planning for mobility and socio-environmental justice: The case of Medellín, Colombia. Environmental Justice and Urban Resilience in the Global South (pp. 37–56).
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• Oviedo, D, Levy, C., & Dávila, J. D. (2017). Constructing wellbeing, deconstructing urban (im)mobilities in Abuja, Nigeria. Urban Mobilities in the Global South (pp. 173–194).
• Pojani, D. and D. Stead (2017), (eds.). The Urban Transport Crisis in Emerging Economies, Springer.
• UN-Habitat (2013) Planning and design for sustainable urban mobility: Global report on human settlements 2013, Taylor & Francis.
   

• Anderson, Mary B., 1996, ‘Understanding Difference and Building Solidarity: a Challenge to Development Initiatives’, in Deborah Eade (ed.), Development and Social Diversity, Oxfam (UK and Ireland), pp. 7-15
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• Patel, K. (2017). What is in a name? How caste names affect the production of situated knowledge. Gender, Place and Culture, 24(7):1011-1030. DOI:10.1080/0966369X.2017.1372385
• Patel, K. (2016). Encountering the state through legal tenure security: perspectives from a low income resettlement scheme in urban India. Land Use Policy, 58:102-113. DOI:10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.07.016
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  Rigon, A. (2014). Building Local Governance: Participation and Elite Capture in Slum-upgrading in Kenya.  Development and Change, 45 (2), pp. 257-283. doi:10.1111/dech.12078

• Zhang, L.Y. (2015). Managing the City Economy: Challenges and Strategies in Developing Countries. London: Routledge
• Panman, A. (2019). Surveys and the City: 3 Challenges to Quality Data Collection in Urban Areas
• Storper, M., Kemeny, T.,  Makarem, N., Osman, T. (2015). The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies: Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles. Stanford: Stanford University Press
  
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• Adelekan, I, Johnson, C., Manda, M., Matyas, D., Mberu, B.U., Parnell, S., Pelling, M., Satterthwaite, D., Vivekananda, J. (2015) ‘Disaster risk and its reduction: an agenda for urban Africa’, International Development Planning Review, 37 , pp. 33-43
• Adger, W. N., Huq, S., Brown, K., Conway, D., & Hulme, M. (2003). Adaptation to climate change in the developing world. Progress in Development Studies, 3(3), 179–195.
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• Pelling, M., Leck, H., Pasquini, L., Idowu, A., Osuteye, E., Parnell, S., Lwasa, S., Johnson, C., Fraser, A., Barcena, A., and Soumana, B. (2018) ‘Africa’s Urban Transition Under a 1.5 Degree Climate Change’, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 31:10–15
• Revi, R. Satterthwaite, D., Aragón-Durand, F., Corfee Morlot, J., Kiunsi, Pelling, M., Roberts, D., Solecki, W., Pahwa Gajjar, S., Sverdlik, A. (2014) ‘Towards transformative adaptation in cities: the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment’, Environment and Urbanization, 15 , pp. 11-28

Project Links

• Urban Africa Risk Knowledge 
• Reducing relocation risk 
• Risk in Informal Settlements: Community Knowledge for Policy Action 
• Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality (Urban KNOW)
   

• DPU/IHS/IPE Triple Line, 2019, “Final Summary Report (July)”, Spatial Inequality in Times of Urban Transition Research, East Africa Research Fund (EARF)/UKAid, Nairobi/London
• DPU/IHS/IPE Triple Line, 2019, “Final Synthesis Report (October)”, Spatial Inequality in Times of Urban Transition Research, East Africa Research Fund (EARF)/UKAid, Nairobi/London
• Genesis Analytics. (2008) The dynamics of the formal urban land market in South Africa. Pretoria: Urban LandMark
• IPE Triple Line, 2018, “Spatial Assessment of Hargeysa, Somaliland (June)”, Spatial Inequality in Times of Urban Transition Research, East Africa Research Fund (EARF)/UKAid, Nairobi/London
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• Napier M, Berrisford S, Wanjiku Kihato C, et al. (2013) Trading places. Accessing land in African cities, Somerset West: African Minds for Urban LandMark
• Tahir, Abdifatah, 2017, “Urban governance, land conflicts and segregation in Hargeisa, Somaliland: historical perspectives and contemporary dynamics”. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Brighton: University of Sussex
• Walls, Michael, 2014, A Somali Nation-State: History, culture and Somaliland’s political transition (2nd Edition). Pisa: Ponte Invisible/redsea-online

• (2006) Special Issue Urban Refugees. Journal of Refugee studies. 19 (3)
  
  Boano, C., Astolfo, G. (2020). Notes around Hospitality as Inhabitation Engaging with the Politics of Care and Refugees’ Dwelling Practices. Migration and Society: Advances in Research. Forthcoming
• Brun, C. (2016) There is no future in humanitarianism: Emergency, temporality and protracted displacement. History and Anthropology. 27 (4)
• Escobar, A. (2003) Displacement, Development, and Modernity in the Colombian Pacific. International Social Science Journal. 55 (175):157–67
• Fawaz, M. (2016) Planning and the Refugee Crisis: Informality as a Framework of Analysis and Reflection. Planning Theory. 16: 99–115
• Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2012) Invisible Refugees and/or Overlapping Refugeedom? Protecting Sahrawis and Palestinians Displaced by the 2011 Libyan Uprising. International Journal of Refugee Law. 24(2):263-293
• Landau, L.B. (2019) A Chronotope of Containment Development: Europe’s Migrant Crisis and Africa’s Reterritorialization. Antipode. 51(1):169-186.
• Murrani, S. (2019) Contingency and Plasticity: The Dialectical Re-construction of the Concept of Home in Displacement. Journal of Culture and Psychology. Online.
• Sanyal, R. (2014) Urbanizing Refuge: Interrogating Spaces of Displacement. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 38(2):558–72
• Sigona, N (2016) Everyday statelessness: status, rights and camps. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 39 (2): 263-279
• Tazzioli, M. (2016) Border displacements. Challenging the politics of rescue between Mare Nostrum and Triton. Migration Studies. 4 (1): 1–19.
• Vertovec, S. (2007) Superdiversity and its implications. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 30(6):1024– 1054
• Polzer, T. Hammond, L. (2008) Invisible Displacement. Journal of Refugee Studies. 21 (4): 417-431