Desconstruindo a transferência de boas práticas urbanas: pode o Sul Global planejar?

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to develop a study about the diffusion, mobility and transfer of urban policies, how this process occurs and its consequences to the urban studies and also to the cities that receive these urban projects. We will seek to answer the concerns brought by the process of urban policy transfer, mainly the North-South flow when analyzing how this transfer occurs once the contexts are so different. This paper’s theoretical inspiration lies on the ideas of Ananya Roy about the Global South. To complement this debate, we also use the post-colonialism to explore the urban policy transfer process. Finally, we conclude that the Global South should have more space in the urban theory to produce content and its own solutions, taking into consideration specific contexts, including the ones in the group of cities from the Global South.