This text is a key contribution to the international debate in planning theory, exploring the experience of planning in South Africa during the ten years from 1994.

Preface Part A: Setting the Scene Introduction 1. Planning the Spaces of Colonialism and Apartheid 2. New Planning Visions 3. Planning Post-Apartheid Part B: Planning and Governance Introduction: International Debates 4. Planning and Local Governance 5. Planning as Governance beyond the Local: The Regional Question, National and Provincial Planning Part C: Discourses of Planning Introduction: International Debates 6. Discourses of the Spatial 7. Discourses of Social Transformation 8. Discourses of the Economy and the Market 9. Discourses of Sustainability Part D: Planning and Society Introduction: International Debates 10. The Planning Profession and Society 11. Educating Planners 12. Planning, Democracy and Values 13. Responding to Diversity: Conflicting Rationalities 14. Responding to Informality 15. Conclusion: The Power of Planning and the Limits to Power: Learning from the South African Experience