1. Introduction: Seizing the Opportunity Thomas Harper, Heloisa Costa and Anthony Yeh 2. Portraying, classifying and understanding the emerging landscapes in the post-industrial city Aspa Gospodini 3. Water and Urban Sustainability in the Metropolitan Area of the Valley of Mexico Virginia Lahera Ramon 4. China's urban developmental planning in rapid urbanization: Resource mobilization and responsiveness to market change Jieming Zhu 5. New Urbanism and Sprawl: A Toronto Case Study Andrejs Skaburskis 6. Reimagining inner-city regeneration in Hillbrow, Johannesburg: Identifying a role for faith-based community development Tanja Winkler 7. Town planning versus urbanismo Michael Hebbert 8. Paris burns: Architecture or revolution? Ester Limonad 9. On the edge of reason: Planning and urban futures in Africa Philip Harrison 10. Territorial planning and the national project: The challenges of fragmentation Carlos Vainer 11. Planning styles in conflict: The metropolitan transportation commission Judith E. Innes and Judith Gruber 12. Performance-Based Planning: Perspectives from the United States, Australia, and New Zealand Douglas C. Baker, Neil G. Sipe, and Brendan J. Gleeson 13. The logic of critical communicative planning: Transaction cost alteration Tore Sager 14. Planning appeals: Are third party rights legitimate? the case study of Victoria, Australia Stephen Willey
