Unboxing the Black Box of Peruvian Planning

Journal Article (2019)
Author(s)

AM Fernandez-Maldonado (TU Delft - Spatial Planning and Strategy)

Research Group
Spatial Planning and Strategy
Copyright
© 2019 A.M. Fernandez Maldonado
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2019.1618596
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Publication Year
2019
Language
English
Copyright
© 2019 A.M. Fernandez Maldonado
Research Group
Spatial Planning and Strategy
Issue number
4
Volume number
34
Pages (from-to)
368-386
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Abstract

This paper reviews the social and professional embeddedness of planning, describes its legal framework, and reviews territorial governance and everyday planning transactions. The findings suggest that the social embeddedness of planning is constrained by Peru’s persistent inequality challenges. Its planning approach has hardly evolved from modernist models centred in zoning and building codes. Its fragmented and profuse legal framework constitutes a black box for planners and citizens, while territorial governance is subject to the state’s low interest and capacity to plan, manage and steer spatial development. These results demand a fundamental revision of the planning system, its approach and governance.