Spatial Governance and Planning Policy Transfer in the Global South The Role of International Agency and the Recirculation of Policies

Spatial governance and planning policy transfer in the Global South. An introduction

Francesca Blanc, Giancarlo Cotella and Marcin Dąbrowski

1. Unpacking the Ecuadorian spatial planning law: policy mobilities in Latin America between transnational agency and path-dependent logics

Francesca Blanc

2. Multilevel urban policy mobilities through the City Statute: the spreading of Brazilian urban federal law

Rérisson Máximo and Luciana Royer

3. Territorializing the climate policy agenda in intermediate cities of the Andean Region

Andrea Carrion, Pere Ariza-Montobbio and Diana Calero

4. Transferring transport policy problems: the instrumental role of social concerns in policy transfer

Giovanni Vecchio

5. The role of municipal knowledge management vehicles in facilitating international knowledge sharing and policy mobility: the Durban story

Sogen Moodley

6. Beyond Conditionality: Community Placemaking in Taiwanese Social Housing Management

Hsinko Cinco Yu, Tsai-Hung Lin and Marcin Dabrowski

Conclusion: Spatial governance and planning policy transfer in the Global South. Towards a research agenda.

Francesca Blanc, Giancarlo Cotella and Marcin Dąbrowski

Biography

Francesca Blanc is a Senior Researcher at the LINKS Foundation, coordinating international projects focused on just urban mobility, public space redesign, and citizen engagement. She has previously worked for the Ecuadorian Ministry of Urban Development and Housing and as a consultant for different international organizations in Latin America, Africa, and Europe.

Giancarlo Cotella is Full Professor of urban and regional planning at Politecnico di Torino, with over 20 years of comparative spatial planning research experience developed through the active participation to numerous international projects. Since 2023, he serves as Secretary General of AESOP, the Association of European Schools of Planning.

Marcin Dąbrowski is an interdisciplinary urbanist integrating insights from political science and spatial planning to critically engage in scholarly and policy debates on sustainable and inclusive urban and regional futures. His work transcends disciplinary, methodological and organisational boundaries to examine the governance dynamics that shape spatial development, thereby informing both spatial design and decision-making processes in the ‘real-world’.