Spatial Governance and Planning Policy Transfer in the Global South

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’.

• Spatial governance and planning policy transfer in the Global South. An introduction 1. Unpacking the Ecuadorian spatial planning law: policy mobilities in Latin America between transnational agency and path-dependent logics 2. Multilevel urban policy mobilities through the City Statute: the spreading of Brazilian urban federal law 3. Territorializing the climate policy agenda in intermediate cities of the Andean Region 4. Transferring transport policy problems: the instrumental role of social concerns in policy transfer 5. The role of municipal knowledge management vehicles in facilitating international knowledge sharing and policy mobility: the Durban story 6. Beyond Conditionality: Community Placemaking in Taiwanese Social Housing Management Conclusion: Spatial governance and planning policy transfer in the Global South. Towards a research agenda.