Instruments of Planning explores planning's instrumentality to deliver important social and environmental outcomes in neoliberal planning landscapes.

1. Planning instruments and the urban change process Part 1. Planning challenges in a context of discontinuous growth 2. Towards equitable intensification: Restricting developer gain and compensating planning costs 3. Freedom's prospect? Re-thinking red and green tape reform as a planning instrument 4. The problem/solution nexus and its effects on public consultation Part 2. Designing strategies for change 5. Community deliberation as a procedural planning tool: Examination of Vancouver and Melbourne 6. Targets for affordable housing: Supporting equitable and sustainable urban growth 7. Social impact assessment: Strategic litigation tool for planning law decision makers 8. A design-led approach for enabling collective imagining of sustainable urban futures Part 3. Instruments to implement change 9. Would you like a code with that? Place-based planning and mapping neighbourhood fields of care 10. Transferable development credits put growth in its place 11. Managing urban intensification through conservation covenants 12. Regenerating cities: Creating the opportunity for greyfield precinct infill development Part 4. Technology in planning: Supporting urban policy and decision-making 13. Policy and planning on the interface of socio-technical systems: Novel approaches to policy development 14. Engaging the greyfields: Community engagement and co-design in residential redevelopment of public housing 15. Technology in urban planning: Spatial hedonic house price model as an information tool 16. Instruments of planning: tensions and challenges for more equitable and sustainable cities