Though modern urban planning is only a century old, it appears to be
facing extinction. Historically, urban planning has been narrowly
conceived, ignoring gaping inequalities of race, class, and gender while
promoting unbridled growth and environmental injustices. In
Transformative Planning, Tom Angotti argues that unless planning is
radically transformed and develops serious alternatives to neoliberal
urbanism and disaster capitalism it will be irrelevant in this century.
This book emerges from decades of urban planners and activists
contesting inequalities of class, race, and gender in cities around the
world. It compiles the discussions and debates that appeared in the
publications of Planners Network, a North American urban planners'
association. Original contributions have been added to the collection so
that it serves as both a reflection of past theory and practice and a
challenge for a new generation of activists and planners.