The Urban Planning Imagination. Nicholas A. Phelps

to control urban sprawl Participation and the lack of it Conclusion Notes

      11  5 Methods: what are the means of planning? Introduction City as organism: the art and science of urban planning City as system: the predicting, providing and nudging of the state Smart cities: the city as a mine of data City as scenario: clubthink Cities and citizens: participation in planning Public participation Communicative action and urban planning Planning without statutory planning: agonism, co-production and radicalism Mixes of methods for new urban planning imaginaries Planning’s artistry Experimentation Planning rhetoric Conclusions Notes

      12  6 Comparisons: what are the global variations in planning? Introduction Comparative approaches Politics, political and administrative science Geography and history National planning systems and cultures Planning systems: formal contrasts in law and administration Culture: the local personalities of planning Models of welfare and national economic development Liberal markets European welfare models Predatory systems South Asian democracies Developmental systems China Born globals Conclusion Notes

      13  7 Exchanges: what are the global connections in planning? Introduction The who, what and how of exchange Nation states, empires and urban planning Urban planning’s global iron cage? The Europeanization of urban planning Global urban planning governance? Clubs: planning for extraordinary desires The seductive power of urban planning Urban planning by and for a TCC Urban planning and the mediation of urban tastes Pick-and-mix planning Citizens: planning for ordinary needs Conclusion Notes

      14  8 Prospects: what is the future of planning? Introduction The limits of citizens, clubs and states as urban planners Citizens Planning in the name of clubs W(h)ither the state? The city as laboratory: productive mixes of the urban planning imagination? Conclusion: urban planning’s disciplinary dialogues

      15  References

      16  Index

      17  End User License Agreement

      List of Tables

      1 Chapter 6Table 6.1 Informal contrasts between types of planning systems

      List of Illustrations

      1 Chapter 2Figure 2.1 Urban planning actors and mixes of actorsFigure 2.2 Plaza de las Tres Culturas, Mexico CityFigure 2.3 Four geographical metaphors

      2 Chapter 3Figure 3.1 Thirteen specializations and their overlaps in twenty-six accredited US planning...Figure 3.2 Informal housing behind Thamrin Square shopping mall, central JakartaFigure 3.3 Melbourne’s Victoria Market and downtownFigure 3.4 Renaturing of a storm channel in Bishan, SingaporeFigure 3.5 How to reframe economic development

      3 Chapter 4Figure 4.1 Graffiti on