Decolonising the Built Environment: Process, Product and Pedagogy

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.

Kundani Makakavhule is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Town and Regional Planning at the University of Pretoria. Her current research is focused on the production, policy and transformation of urban public open spaces as well as the transformation and regenerative potential of space on the neighbourhood and precinct scale.

Karina Landman is a Professor in City 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.