Introduction: the structure and debates of planning theory -- Part I : The development of planning theory -- Urban utopias in the twentieth century: Ebenezer howard, frank lloyd wright, and Le corbusier -- Co-evolutions of planning and design: Risks and benefits of design perspectives in planning systems -- Authoritarian high modernism -- The death and life of great American cities -- Planning the capitalist City -- The three historic currents of city planning -- Part II : What are planners trying to do? The justifications and critiques of planning -- The planning project -- Urban planning in an uncertain world -- Arguments for and against planning -- Is there space for better planning in a neoliberal world? Implications for planning practice and theory -- Green cities, growing cities, just cities? Urban planning and the contradictions of sustainable development -- Disasters, vulnerability and resilience of cities -- Spatial justice and planning -- Part III : Implications of practice for theory -- The neglected places of practice -- Home, sweet home: American residential zoning in comparative perspective -- Understanding community development in a theory of action framework: Norms, markets, justice -- Participatory governance: From theory to practice -- Cultivating surprise and the art of the possible: The drama of mediating differences -- Part IV : Wicked problems in planning: identity, difference, ethics, and conflict -- Inclusion and democracy -- Towards a cosmopolitan urbanism: From theory to practice -- Advocacy and pluralism in planning -- The minority-race planner in the quest for a just city -- The past, present, and future of professional ethics in planning -- Insurgent planning: situating radical planning in the global South -- Part V : Planning in a globalized world -- Place and place-making in cities: A global perspective -- Urban informality: The production of space and practice of planning -- Seeing from the South: Refocusing urban planning on the globe's central urban issues -- Global cities of the South: Emerging perspectives on growth and inequality

1. City planning