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Dedication

      For 苗田

      and

      Yulia Elizabeth Phelps

The Urban Planning Imagination

      A Critical International Introduction

      NICHOLAS A. PHELPS

      polity

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      Copyright © Nicholas A. Phelps 2021

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List of figures and tables

       Figures

2.1 Urban planning actors and mixes of actors

2.2 Plaza de las Tres Culturas, Mexico City

2.3 Four geographical metaphors

      3.1 Thirteen specializations and their overlaps in twenty-six accredited US planning schools

      3.2 Informal housing behind Thamrin Square shopping mall, central Jakarta

      3.3 Melbourne’s Victoria Market and downtown

      3.4 Renaturing of a storm channel in Bishan, Singapore

      3.5 How to reframe economic development

      4.1 Graffiti on a Melbourne road sign

      4.2 Pathways of urban development in the southeast of England

      5.1 Inside the planning gallery in Bandung, Indonesia

      5.2 Los Arenales, Antofagasta, Chile

Tables

      6.1 Informal contrasts between types of planning systems

Preface

      A good number of friends and colleagues have been implicated in yet another of my book-writing enterprises and this preface can only touch on some of them.

      I must say at the outset that I am extremely grateful to Jonathan Skerrett and Karina Jákupsdóttir of Polity Press. I thank Karina for keeping me on the straight and narrow and Jonathan for the invitation to write this book and for his insightful comments and persistence with my attempts to put together a cohesive framework for it. I thank Fiona Sewell for her cleaning up of my manuscript text. I am greatly indebted to readers of the original book proposal and reviewers of the first draft manuscript for