Includes bibliographical references.

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 Monclús, 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.