In this volume, contributions from Europe and Latin America provide insight into the functions of planning under very different political and societal constellations over the last hundred years: dictatorships, parliamentary democracies and illiberalism; capitalism and state socialism; state interventionism and neoliberalism, and more.

0. Investigating Urban Planning in various forms of rule. An introduction Part 1: Right-Wing Dictatorships and their Heritage 1. A European perspective on national-socialist urbanism 2. Reconstruction as a dictatorial power strategy. The multiple functions of an urban programme in the early years of the Franco regime (1938-1959) 3. The dictatorial modernisation of Portugal 4. Valle de los Caídos: construction, use and "dispute value" of a gigantic legacy of the Franco dictatorship, 1939-2023 5. Nuremberg: Nazi party rally grounds in a changing European culture of remembrance 6. Italy's Dealing with its Fascist Legacy: A History of Development 7. Urban Heritage and political memory under dictatorship and democracy in Chile Part 2: State socialisms, parliamentary democracy, illiberalism 8. Planning, Politics and Panel Housing: Czechoslovak Housing Estates 9. From comprehensive planning to small interventions. Urban renewal and rationalisation in the German Democratic Republic 10. Academic opposition under state socialism. Unique academic experiences in the German Democratic Republic 11. Planning the "Victory of Socialism" and its Afterlives: The Civic Center of Bucharest before and after 1989 12. Sights set high. Steering the tertiarisation in Frankfurt am Main (1945-1986) 13. Between two Domes: Shifting political power relations in post-2010 Budapest Urban Planning under Political Power from a European Perspective - Concluding thoughts