Hybrid Urbanisms in Secondary Cities of the Global South Insights from Urban Planning and Infrastructure Delivery in Ghana and Peru
Edited by Christian Rosen & Nina Gribat
Published by Routledge
This book presents the concept of ‘Hybrid Urbanisms’ aiming to deconstruct the still-existing and often critiqued dualism of formalised and informalised practices in urban planning and infrastructure delivery. Using an innovative perspective, the book addresses this issue by focusing on the complex configurations in which both forms always co-exist and compete as powerful social constructs. It unveils the juxtaposition, simultaneity, dependency and intertwining of in-/formalised practices and highlights the relevance of the hybrid urbanisms perspective to better understand urban development, especially in the global South. At the same time, the book focuses on secondary cities of Ghana and Peru that are often overlooked in the existing literature but play a relevant role in global urbanisation quantitively and qualitatively. In offering a comparative perspective on two very diverse geographical contexts, ten empirical studies are framed by a conceptualisation of ‘Hybrid Urbanisms’ and a concluding systematisation of perspectives on this central aspect of urban development. Taken together, this volume makes an innovative contribution on how to produce new and more diverse urban theories of cities of the global South.
The Hybrid Urbanisms research project was funded by DFG – The German Research Foundation (project number. 458375534, https://hybridurbanisms.org). We were able to publish the book in open access thanks to the support of the Publication Fund for Open Access Monographs of the Federal State of Brandenburg, Germany and by the Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning of Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg. You can read the book here: Open Access
To celebrate the release we cordially invite you to our online book release on June, 10th 2025 at 11:00 (Peru time), 16:00 (Ghana), 18:00 (Germany). The program includes short presentations of both, the concept of hybrid urbanisms and panel discussions on cross-cutting issues that bring together some of the empirical chapters of the book. Please save the date and use the following link to join the event: https://tu-darmstadt.zoom-x.de/j/69202062016
Program:
Introduction to Hybrid Urbanisms
Nina Gribat (B-TU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany) & Christian Rosen (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
Hybrid Planning Landscapes
Millicent Awialie Akaateba (SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, Wa, Ghana) & Jessica Pineda Zumaran (Urbes Lab, Lima, Peru)
Hybridity in Infrastructure Delivery
Katherin Tiburcio Jaimes (Urbes Lab) & Rejoice Wireko-Gyebi (University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana