Metropolisation in the Global South: political negotiation in Lima and Bogotá

Latin America faces challenges from the complexity of formal and informal agreements in the public and private spheres. Hence, the incipient metropolitan legislation needs to be correctly articulated with decentralisation. This article analyses the metropolises of Bogotá and Lima, which have been growing significantly and disorderly compared to their peers worldwide. In this sense, the difference between institutional hardware and software is covered, where both are characterised by being the political, financial and service centres of the Andean Community. Likewise, the margins of informality and uncertainty are high, given the conflictive political nature between local and metropolitan interests. Therefore, metropolitan governance agreements show the predominance of an uncertain and changing negotiation scenario between powerful local actors and business unions, state ministries and senior local government officials.