Includes bibliographical references and index.

Planning the spaces of colonialism and apartheid -- New planning visions -- Planning post-apartheid -- Planning and local governance -- Planning as governance beyond the local : the regional question, national and provincial planning -- Discourses of the spatial -- Discourses of social transformation -- Discourses of the economy and the market -- Discourses of sustainability -- The planning profession and society -- Educating planners -- Planning, democracy and values -- Responding to diversity : conflicting rationalities -- Responding to informality -- Conclusion: The power of planning and the limits to power : learning from the South African experience.

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