Hybrid Urbanisms in Secondary Cities of the Global South

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.

Christian Rosen is a sociologist, postdoctoral researcher and principle investigator in the Hybrid Urbanisms project at Technical University of Darmstadt. He obtained his PhD from Frankfurt University. His research interests include urban development practices, especially in the global South, secondary cities, comparative research, political sociology and spatial theory.
Nina Gribat is professor of urban planning at Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany. Her research interests include hybrid urbanisms and infrastructural delivery configurations in the global South; governance and planning in small towns; and cultural actor networks in rural areas. Nina is a member of the editorial collective of the open-access journal sub\urban zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung (www.zeitschrift-suburban.de).