Abstract

BASSOLS RICARDEZ, Mario. Urban Regime: From The Roots to Its Forks. Polis [online]. 2021, vol.17, n.2, pp.39-68.  Epub Mar 07, 2022. ISSN 2594-0686.  https://doi.org/10.24275/uam/izt/dcsh/polis/2021v17n2/bassols.

This article casts a light over the main theory of urban regime analysis, in the local government studies field. It synthesizes important critiques to its fundamentals, and formulates questions around the urban research agenda and the governments capabilities, from its original perspective. Inside the current latin-american urban studies, a way to push the agenda, could be thinking about urban regime under a relational view, South profiled. This would implies diving into the analysis of its spatial peculiarities, its governing methods and the social problems that affect it.

Keywords : Urban regime; city; local government; agenda; power.