Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Front Cover Image: A Short Description by Beatrix Haselsberger -- Acknowledgements -- PART 1 Introduction -- 1 Encounters in Planning Thought: An Introduction -- 2 Autobiography as a Method of Inquiry -- PART 2 16 Autobiographical Essays from Key Thinkers in Spatial Planning -- 3 Planning as a Vocation: The Journey So Far -- 4 From Utopian and Realistic to Transformative Planning -- 5 Visions of Contemporary Planning: Stories and Journeys in Britain and America -- 6 An Ancient Future -- 7 Understanding and Improving Planning Processes and Planning Institutions: A Moving Target -- 8 Finding My Way: A Life of Inquiry into Planning, Urban Development Processes and Place Governance -- 9 Educating Planners: The Dream of a Better Future -- 10 From Informing Policy to Collaborating Rationally -- 11 A Renegade Economist Preaches Good Land-Use Planning -- 12 Strategic Planning as a Catalyst for Transformative Practices -- 13 Places Matter: Creativity, Culture and Planning -- 14 Challenging Institutions That Reproduce Planning Thought and Practice -- 15 A Science of Cities: Prologue to a Science of Planning -- 16 Planners' Beacon, Compass and Scale: Linking Planning Theory, Implementation Analysis and Planning Law -- 17 On the Evolution of a Critical Pragmatism -- 18 Pragmatism and Plan-Making -- PART 3 Epilogue -- 19 Back to the Future: A Personal Portrayal in the Interface of Past Planning and Planning Futures -- Index