(2009) ‘Seeing from the South: Refocusing Urban Planning on the Globe’s Central Urban Issues’, 46(11), pp.
London New York: Routledge (Questioning cities) Robinson, Int J Urban Reg Res 35:1–23, 2011)) and (Watson, V. (2006) Ordinary cities: between modernity and development. Scholars, for instance, (Connell, Plan Theory 13:210–223, 2014), (Robinson, J. The discourse on current African urban challenges and prospects is calling for a change of perspective in understanding urban Africa from its own sociocultural and historical context. Despite the ever-growing urban challenges and rapid transformation of cities in Africa, there is a positive trend of knowledge production and dynamic policy reforms aiming at a better management of urbanisation and related development fields. 30.African urbanisation is at the crossroad. The article details the ways contemporary urbanization processes are composed via a het-erogeneity of flows and corridors, while they are simultaneously reterrito-rialized through the elaboration of popular economies that express a partial disjuncture with capital-central logics of urbanization and the concretization of urbanization potentials embodied by long histories of struggle. These potentially continue a long trajectory of solidarities and singularities among postcolonial urbanities. Nevertheless, the compositions of contemporary urbanization processes engineer an urban world that is largely deterritorialized in terms of geographical and socio-technical specificity but simultaneously necessitates heterogeneous articulations across territories that open up spaces for the re-iteration of many Souths.
This article considers the conundrums entailed in maintaining the notions of "city" and "Global South" in an era where urbanization is no longer epitomized by the city form and where the Global South as a distinctive geopo-litical entity has largely been fractured into a multiplicity of domains and histories.
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