Francesca Blanc

Politecnico di Torino | polito · DIST - Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning

Motivation: The global urban development frameworks defined by the United Nations are circulating worldwide and a race towards their domestic adoption has risen since the approval of the New Urban Agenda and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Their institutionalization at the domestic level is favoured by the rather aseptic "urban paradig...

Spatial governance and planning systems empower the public authority to steer and control spatial development. Whereas most comparative studies on how this occurs focus on the European continent, less knowledge is available on the global South incre-mental urbanisation. The cases of three Latin American countries-Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru-are here dis...

The paper engages with the policy mobilities debate by examining the 2016 Ecuadorian spatial planning law. It explores the existing tensions between the constitutional framework and the spatial planning tools outlined by the law which were the result of a process of adaptation of external planning models influenced by international organizations. I...

Until recently, comparative spatial planning researchhad mostly focused on the European continent. Since the end of the 1980s, a growing number of studies contributed to the proliferation of theoretical and methodological approaches, as well as to a further definition of the object of study. Comparisons focusing on other parts of the World are much...

All'interno del dibattito sul 'pluralizing the field of urban studies' (Schwarz & Streule, 2016), il presente paper pone la questione del rapporto tra il governo del territorio di matrice occidentale ed i caratteri dei processi urbani nei paesi del Sud Globale, in particolare nell’area andina. Si tratta di paesi estremamente complessi dal punto di...

Este artículo sintetiza las principales líneas de trabajo impulsadas, en los últimos años, por la Cátedra UNESCO de Ciudades Intermedias de la Universitat de Lleida, con el objetivo de evidenciar la trascendencia de la ciudad intermedia como mayoritaria en la geografía urbana mundial. Además de su papel clave en las relaciones entre lo urbano y el...