Chasing World-Class Urbanism

Lederman, Jacob

doi:10.5749/j.ctv15d816m

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“…Over approximately the last 20 years, an increasing amount of literature has been exploring the uptake of urban planning 'best practices' in diverse cities around the globe (Bidordinova, 2021;Blake et al, 2021;Bok, 2020;Bulkeley, 2006;Moore, 2013), including within Latin America (Angotti and Irazábal, 2017;Blanc, 2022;Lederman, 2020;Whitney et al, 2020). Policy mobility has been one approach used to understand the increasing intensification of best practice uptake.…”

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“…Here we define best practices as the policies, programs, interventions, and projects that trigger policy changes in different cities from which they originally emerged (Macmillen and Stead, 2014;Montero, 2017). While there is an increasing body of literature critically exploring the role of best practices in Latin American cities (Bertelli, 2021;Whitney, 2022a;Jajamovich, 2016;Lederman, 2020), less has been said about the institutional structures, or the local agencies, that have been responsible for their local adoption. Here we call these local agencies best practice agencies (BPAs) and explore how they have been inspired by similar agencies in other cities around the world.…”

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Fast-track institutionalization: The opening of urban planning best practice agencies in Mexico City

Whitney

López-García

2022

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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The article explores the related concepts of best practice agencies (BPAs) and fast-track institutionalization. We define BPAs as agencies that have been inspired by international trends in urban governance, often opened within local urban contexts to implement urban planning best practice policies and programs. Importantly, we argue that BPAs often go through processes of “fast-track institutionalization”, meaning that in an attempt by mayors to showcase their effectiveness to their constituents, the institutionalization of BPAs is deemphasized. Through exploring two BPAs in Mexico City, namely the Laboratorio para la Ciudad (LabCDMX) and the Autoridad del Espacio Público (AEP), we illustrate how each BPA bypassed the capacity-building and public action processes required to build consensus on their importance within city government. We then suggest that fast-track institutionalization is one aspect that can eventually contribute to the closure of BPAs. We conclude by exploring how BPAs have created a site of contention between best practice adoption and local processes of institutionalization, eroding their ability to implement their mandates over the short and long-term.

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