Decolonising the Built Environment

Process, Product, and Pedagogy

Kundani Makakavhule, Karina Landman

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Routledge
07 February 2025

City & town planning - architectural aspects; Human geography; Urban & municipal planning; Civil engineering, surveying & building

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.

Edited by: Kundani Makakavhule, Karina Landman
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 640g
ISBN: 9781032352435
ISBN 10: 1032352434
Pages: 242
Publication Date: 07 February 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

1. Towards a Decolonial Turn in the Built Environment Part One: From Paradigm to Process 2. Performing Space: Thoughts on Colonising, Decolonising and the Concert Hall 3. Settler Colonial Critique and Indigenous Urbanization 4. Place-Based Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Their Relevance to the Decolonisation of Urban Planning Practice in Namibia: The Example of the Olupale and Omuvanda Cultural Open Spaces 5. Place-Based Strategies to Transform South African Urban Nearby Nature Places 6. An African Landscape Design Approach for Rural Development Part Two: From Process to Product & 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 Critical Disruptor to Reveal Emergent Narratives and Authorship in Architecture 12. Kamĩrĩĩthũ: An Architecture for Decolonisation Part Three: 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

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).