A key aspect of how globalization and planning are tied together is that the traveling of planning ideas across nation-states has sped up and gained intensity. Such transnationality echoes similar conceptualization in economic geography, migration studies, and in the literature on “transnational urbanism.” Using the example of the transnational flow of strategic planning ideas and practices, this article highlights the rising role of policy tourism, the important function of city-networks and multilateral institutions (particularly UN-HABITAT), and the uneven processes of transnational norm-making.