Historicizing the circulation of urban policies through career paths analysis: Barcelonian experts and their role in redeveloping Buenos Aires? Puerto Madero?.

JAJAMOVICH, GUILLERMO

IBEROAMERICANA (MADRID)

Instituto Iberoamericano de Berlín en cooperación con el GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies (Hamburgo) y la editorial Iberoamericana/Vervuert (Madrid/Frankfurt am Main).

Lugar: Madrid - Frankfurt; Año: 2016 vol. 16 p. 167 - 183

1577-3388

This article addresses various issues of urban policy circulation, focusing on the Puerto Madero redevelopment project and in exchanges between experts and politicians from Barcelona and Buenos Aires. I emphasize the relevance of national states in processes that merge economic, political, and technical projects. Second, I argue that conflicts are relevant parts of those processes. Third, I show career paths analysis as a relevant tool for analyzing and historicizing these processes. In so doing, I aim to demonstrate why and how local experts chose to learn from Barcelona. In sum, I focus on recent history and argue that both career paths analysis and a substantive consideration of the state in these processes can enrich recent policy mobility literature.