Urban Governance and the Politics of Planning in the Global South

Harvard GSD

This course starts from the premise that politics and governance arrangements can both enable and constrain effective and socially just urban planning action. Using a focus on cities in the developing world, the course examines an array of governance structures (centralized versus decentralized institutions; local versus national states; participatory budgeting, etc.) and political conditions (democracy versus authoritarianism; neoliberal versus populist versus leftist party politics; social…