ANDALUSIA, MERCOSUR AND AFTERWARDS. The circulation of ideas and urban policies around Plan Montevideo

Abstract

We propose the analysis of the circulation of ideas and urban policies that revolve around the process of the Montevideo Plan, an instrument of territorial ordering elaborated by a triumvirate and approved in 1998 by a majority of councilors in the Departmental Board of Montevideo, legislative body and controller of the Departmental Government. In that direction, as conditions of possibility of the Plan, on the one hand we study the Ibero-American networks that arise around the fifth centenary of the discovery of America, emphasizing the Andalusian cooperation in Montevideo. On the other, we reveal the Mercosurian networks, which emerged at the height of the global cities, and the Montevidean way as a local way of approaching the urban question in the nineties. We conclude with the proposal of a new construct that we have called the Montevideo System.

Keywords: Montevideo Plan; circulation of ideas and urban policies in Iberoamerica, andalusian cooperation, Mercosur