Contents:
Preface and acknowledgements --
Notes on contributors --
The what, why, and how of planning history / Carola Hein --
Writing planning history : agents, theories, methods, and typologies --
The pioneers, institutions and vehicles of planning history / Stephen V Ward --
Interdisciplinarity in planning history / Nancy H.Kwak --
Planning history and theory : institutions, comparison, and temporal processes / André Sorensen --
The history of planning methodology / Peter Batey --
Biographical method / Robert Freestone --
Planning diffusion : agents, mechanisms, networks and theories / Stephen V Ward --
Global systems foundations of the discipline : colonial, post-colonial and other power structures / Robert Home --
Time, place and culture : from Euro-American to global planning history --
The ancient past in the urban present : the use of early models in urban design / Michael E. Smith, Carola Hein --
Writing planning history in the English-speaking world / Robert Freestone --
Key planning histories of the developing western tradition from the mid-19th century to the early-20th century / David Massey -- Urbanisme, urbanismo, urbanistica : Latin European urbanism / Javier Monclâus, Carmen Díez Medina --
Urbanisme and the francophone sphere / Clément Orillard --
The German traditions of Städtebau and Stadtlandschaft and their diffusion through global exchange / Celina Kress --
Planning history in and of Russia and the Soviet Union / Maria Taylor, Irina V. Kukina --
From urbanism to planning process : convergences of Latin American countries / Maria Cristina da Silva Leme, Vera Lucia Motta Rezende --
Southeast Asia : colonial discourses / Abidin Kusno --
Postcolonial Southeast Asia / Abidin Kusno -- Idioms of Japanese planning historiography / Carola Hein --
The uses of planning history in China / Daniel B. Abramson --
Planning histories in the Arab world / Eric Verdeil, Joe Nasr --
Africa's urban planning palimpsest / Susan Parnell --
Sites and dynamics : issues, movements / Themes and Debates --
Politics, power and urban form / David Gordon --
Planning for economic development / Richard Hu --
Planning for infrastructure : lifelines, mobility, and urban developmenat / Domenic Vitiello --
Ports and urban waterfronts / Dirk Schubert --
Urban segments and event spaces : world's fairs and olympic sites / John R. Gold, Margaret M. Gold --
Public health and urban planning: intertwined histories / Russell Lopez --
Urbanism, housing and the city / Cor Wagenaar --
Global suburbanization in planning history / André Sorensen --
Opposition, participation, and community driven planning histories / Dirk Schubert --
Livability and environmental sustainability : from smoky to livable cities / Dieter Schott --
Disasters : recovery, replanning, reconstruction and resilience / Peter J. Larkham --
A history of heritage conservation in city planning / Jyoti Hosagrahar --
Futures -- Educating planners in history : a global perspective / Christopher Silver --
The imprint of history in the practice of city and regional planning lessons from the cincinnati case : 1925-2012 / Eugenie L. Birch --
Death of the author, center, and meta-theory : emerging planning histories and expanding methods of the early 21st century / Tom Avermaete --
Future narratives for planning history / Stephen J. Ramos.