ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors highlights urban planning in many Latin American cities from the late 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century is similar in ways. They aim to note the increasing outline of a strong professional field, resulting in the creation of commissions and local departments, as well as in the establishment of instruction on urban planning in undergraduate and graduate courses and the gradual change of scale from urban to regional and metropolitan planning. The authors identify in the gradual evolution of urbanism and planning in Latin America some common aspects: a primary recognition of city planning as a basic requirement and a demand for plans and studies to reflect upon the expansion of cities and to integrate random urban works, which gave result to the establishment of rules and regulations. The speed of urbanization of large cities challenged the local experts to experiment and propose new strategies to urban planning and to consider a larger multi-country context.
