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"Since the 1960s many activists and urban professionals have contested inequalities of class, race and gender in cities around the world. Transformative Planning comes out of this movement and compiles the discussions and debates that appeared in the publications of Planners Network, an association of planners and activists based in North America. Original contributions were added to the collection so that it serves as both a reflection of past theory and practice and a challenge for activists and planners going forward."--

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- TABLES AND FIGURES -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 1 THE CENTURY OF THE METROPOLIS -- 2 THE U.S. METROPOLIS Mobility and inequality -- 3 THE DEPENDENT METROPOLIS -- 4 THE SOVIET METROPOLIS -- INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTERS 5-7 -- 5 THEORIES OF URBANIZATION AND PLANNING -- 6 METROPOLITAN POLITICS AND PLANNING -- 7 COMMUNITY AND METROPOLIS -- 8 CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- APPENDIX -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Introduction to urban Latin America / Tom Angotti -- Poverty and informality in Latin American cities / Alan Gilbert -- They are not informal settlements : they are habitats made by people / Lorena Zárate -- Global peripheral cities / Erminia Maricato -- São Paolo : city of industry, misery and resistance / William Goldsmith and Rogerio Acca -- Mexico City : globalization, governance, and citizen resistance in the transformation of downtown Mexico City / Diane Davis -- Neoliberal housing policies in Mexico / Alfonso Valenzuela -- Participatory budgeting in Latin American cities / Benjamin Goldfrank -- Medellín : an "urban miracle"? / Tobias Franz -- Bogotá's transmilenio : conflict and convergence between experts and citizens / Stacy Hunt -- The political economy of a global suburb in Rio de Janeiro / Lawrence A. Herzog -- Housing and urbanization in the Cuban revolution / Jill Hamberg -- Uruguay's housing cooperatives : alternative to the private market / Tom Angotti -- Citizenship, democracy and public space / Clara Irazábal -- Luchas contra la descalificación territorial en Santiago de Chile / Nicolas Angélcos and Maria Luisa Méndez -- The cultural politics of lead poisoning in Montevideo, Uruguay / Daniel Renfrew

Argues that efforts to address urban problems must address underlying economic inequalities, and that national economic policies have fostered capitalist accumulation and an ecologically damaging form of urbanization; Latin America. Some focus on regional planning.