ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to clarify some of the many and complex issues, factors, and forces that influence the planning and development of a city, focusing on the role of planning and its variations: Mainstream Planning, Bad Planning, Good Planning, Progressive Planning, and Transformative Planning.
Cities develop not as a result of a single vision or plan, but through struggle among competing ideologies, values, and material interests, and, ultimately, depend on the distribution of power in the society as a whole. The chapter looks at multiple current examples of planning, from conventional to innovative, and raises for discussion the values involved in them and the issues covered and those significantly missing in them.
