Partial table of contents:

PLANNING AND THE RISE OF CIVIL SOCIETY.

Planning and Civil Society in the Twenty-first Century: An Introduction (P. Marris).

The New Political Economy of Planning: The Rise of Civil Society (J. Friedmann).

CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE PRACTICE OF PLANNING.

Learning Democratic Practice: Distributing Government Resources Through Popular Participation in Porto Alegre, Brazil (R. Abers).

Local Environmental Conflicts in Latin America: Changing State-Civil Society Relations in Chile (F. Sabatini).

THEORETICAL DEBATES.

The Death of Modernist Planning: Radical Praxis for a Postmodern Age (L. Sandercock).

Empowering Civil Society: Habermas, Foucault and the Question of Conflict (B. Flyvbjerg).

Convivial Cities (L. Peattie).

Endnotes.

List of Figures.

List of Tables.

Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

Bibliography.

Index.