The Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South

In all the debate on theorizing cities from and for the south, discussions of health remain relatively silent amid the rush to f ind adequate explanatory frameworks for a rapidly changing urban reality. This silence remains despite the fact that the broad canon of urban studies has actually been remarkably prolif ic in responding to Robinson’s (2006: x) assertion that urban theory has ‘excluded many cities and their citizens from their accounts of the excitement and potential of city life’ by corralling cities of the south into developmental frameworks, rather than theories of urban modernity. Indeed, while McFarlane (2008: 341) has argued that the south still exists as an ‘urban shadow’ on the ‘edges of urban…