Decolonising the Built Environment

Process, Product, and Pedagogy
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-35243-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Decolonising the Built Environment: Process, Product, and Pedagogy provides an important and much-needed comprehensive overview of how decolonisation is shaping the built environment in theory, in practice, and as a process/project today. The contributors provide an inclusive and trans-national conversation between a diverse set of academics, design practitioners and thinkers, and activists. This book is structured around three thematic and practical categories: Part 1 studies decolonisation conceptually; Part 2 studies decolonisation as a process; and Part 3 studies the products of decolonisation as materialised in the form of buildings, urban design, planning, policy, and social practices.

Essential reading for students, teachers, and practitioners, this book presents the project of decolonisation as a pedagogy and an ongoing process.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Makakavhule, Kundani

Landman, Karina

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Towards a Decolonial Turn in the Built Environment Part 1 From Paradigm to Process 2. Performing Space: Thoughts on Colonising, Decolonising, and the Concert Hall 3. Settler Colonial Critique and Indigenous Urbanisation 4. Place-Based Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Their Relevance to the Decolonisation of Urban Planning Practice in Namibia: The Olupale and the Omuvanda: Two Cultural Open Spaces 5. Place-Based Strategies for Transforming South African Urban Nature Places 6. An African Landscape Design Approach for Rural Development Part 2 From Process to Product and Pedagogy 7. Decolonising the Built Environment in and around a University Campus: The Incongruence between Intellectual Discourse and Lived (Institutional) Practices 8. Visual Redress at Stellenbosch University: Staff Reactions to the Decolonisation of Campus Spaces 9. The Invisible Users of the Street 10. Ubuntu Design Aesthetics and the Built Environment in South Africa 11. An Inquiry into Visual Art as a Critical Disruptor to Reveal Emergent Narratives and Authorship in Architecture 12. Kamiriithu: An Architecture for Decolonisation Part 3 Reflections on the Decolonial Turn in the Built Environment 13. Spaces of Erasure 14. Can the Master Speak? 15. Conclusion: Reconsidering the Decolonisation of the Built Environment

Über Autor(innen)

Kundani Makakavhule is a senior lecturer in the Department of Town and Regional Planning at the University of Pretoria, specialising in the transformation of urban public open spaces at neighbourhood and precinct scales. Her research focuses on democracy, spatial appropriation, diversity, and active citizenship, exploring how these micro-scale dynamics influence broader urban planning processes. Drawing on theories from politics, sociology, and geography, her work addresses the social and political factors shaping planning in the developing world. By emphasising multidisciplinary approaches, she contributes to solving contemporary challenges in African urban spaces.

Karina Landman is a professor in the Department of Town and Regional Planning at the University of Pretoria with a background in urban design and architecture. Her work focuses on spatial transformation, including research on gated communities and safer and sustainable neighbourhoods, regenerative and resilient cities, and public space. Her work on public space revolves around issues of inclusivity, regeneration, and resilience. Her research on sustainable development focuses on urban resilience and regenerative development and design. She has published a book, Evolving Public Space in South Africa (2019).