CONTENTS
List of Figures x
List of Contributors xi
Front Cover Image: A Short Description by Beatrix Haselsberger xiv
Acknowledgements by Beatrix Haselsberger xvi
PART 1 Introduction 1
1 Encounters in Planning Thought: An Introduction 3
Beatrix Haselsberger
2 Autobiography as Method of Inquiry 8
Laura Saija
PART 2 16 Autobiographical Essays from Key Thinkers in Spatial Planning 13
3 Planning as a Vocation: The Journey So Far 15
John Friedmann
4 From Utopian and Realistic to Transformative Planning 35
Peter Marcuse
5 Visions of Contemporary Planning: Stories and Journeys in Britain and America 51
Peter Hall
6 An Ancient Future 71
Luigi Mazza
7 Understanding and Improving Planning Processes and Planning Institutions: A Moving Target 88
Andreas Faludi
8 Finding My Way: A Life of Inquiry into Planning, Urban Development Processes and Place Governance 107
Patsy Healey
9 Educating Planners: The Dream of a Better Future 126
Gerhard Schimak
10 From Informing Policy to Collaborating Rationally 145
Judith E. Innes
11 A Renegade Economist Preaches Good Land-Use Planning 165
Barrie Needham
12 Strategic Planning as a Catalyst for Transformative Practices 184
Louis Albrechts
13 Places Matter: Creativity, Culture and Planning 202
Klaus R. Kunzmann
14 Challenging Institutions That Reproduce Planning Thought and Practice 222
Cliff Hague
15 A Science of Cities: Prologue to a Science of Planning 242
Michael Batty
16 Planners' Beacon, Compass and Scale: Linking Planning Theory, Implementation Analysis and Planning Law 260
Rachelle Alterman
17 On the Evolution of a Critical Pragmatism 280
John Forester
18 Pragmatism and Plan-Making 297
Charles Hoch
PART 3 Epilogue 315
19 Back to the Future: A Personal Portrayal in the Interface of Past Planning and Planning Futures 317
Beatrix Haselsberger
Index 325