E-raamat: Indigenous Rights to the City: Ethnicity and Urban Planning in Bolivia and Ecuador

This book breaks new ground in understanding urban indigeneity in policy and planning practice. It is the first comprehensive and comparative study that foregrounds the complex interplay of multiple organisations involved in translating indigenous rights to the city in Latin America, focusing on the cities of La Paz and Quito.

It establishes how planning for urban indigeneity looks in practice, even in seemingly progressive settings such as Bolivia and Ecuador, where indigenous rights to the city are recognised within constitutions. It explores how the translation of indigenous rights to the city is a process involving different actor groups operating within state institutions and indigenous communities, who often hold conflicting interests and needs. The book also establishes a set of theoretical, methodological and practical foundations for envisaging how urban indigenous planning in Latin America and elsewhere should be understood, studied and undertaken: as a process which embraces conflict and challenges power relations within indigenous communities and between these communities and the state.

This book will appeal to practitioners, researchers and students working within the fields of urban planning, urban development and indigenous rights.