Knowledge Actors Engaging in “Everyday Planning” in Rapidly Urbanizing Peripheries of the Global South

This article presents original research based on the premise that inclusive urban planning is about different types of knowledges coming together, a process enables participation diverse knowledge actors. In India, urgency peri‐urbanization reflected in massive transformation and roaring real estate speculation being unleashed through conversion agricultural land into profit‐making zones. It praxeology an everyday modality by actors interpret possibility at scales drive rapid emergence peri‐urban built environment around metropolis Bangalore Southern India. At outset, I present conceptual framework articulates territorial‐financial mechanisms macro‐level with praxiology their networks meso‐level spatial knowledges. Then describe methods used. empirical part, this first describes particular site periphery city Bangalore. Then, delineate prescriptive given local law. explain peri‐urbanization, followed discussion rationales shape practices planning. Finally, discuss how social workers could get more involved contribute to shaping cities because profession’s grounding principles ethics supports human well‐being development for people not profit.