This book sheds new light in considering the role of community planning in addressing community and neighbourhood authenticity.

Introduction: Planning for AuthentiCITIES Part I: Mooring Chapter 1: Chinatown, not Coffeetown: Authenticity and placemaking in Vancouver's Chinatown Chapter 2: Neighbourhood authenticity and sense of place Chapter 3: Urban authenticity as a panacea for urban disorder? Business improvement areas, cultural power, and the worlds of justification Chapter 4: A framework of neighbourhood authenticity for urban planning: Three aspects and three types of change Chapter 5: Negotiating diversity: The transitioning Greektown of Baltimore City, Maryland Chapter 6: Planning and authenticity: A materialist and phronetic perspective Part II: Performing Chapter 7: Authenticity makes the city: How "the authentic" affects the production of space Chapter 8: Authenticity's many performances in the urban studies literature Chapter 9: Tactical urbanism as the staging of social authenticity Chapter 10: Sincerity, performative authenticity, and tourism in New Orleans Chapter 11: Gardening in America Chapter 12: Utilizing comical mascots (yuru-kyara) to create city authenticity? Chapter 13: Authentic Downtown Project: Intentional community-making in the digital age Part III: Healing Chapter 14: Relocated authenticity: Placemaking in displacement in southern Taiwan Chapter 15: Coding the "authenti-city": North Harbour and Århusgade Quarter, Copenhagen Chapter 16: Diálogos for Latino Communities Chapter 17: Planning for reconciliation: Indigenous authenticity in community engagement and urban planning in Canadian cities Chapter 18: Urban-social imaginaries of authenticity-and the John Lennon Wall