Table of Contents

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.

About the Author

Mike Douglass and John Friedmann are the authors of Cities for Citizens: Planning and the Rise of Civil Society in a Global Age, published by Wiley.