Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Putting planning in its democratic place -- The problem of planning-as-democracy -- Recognising planning's democratic challenges -- Why not democratic planning? -- Planning in a place: victoria, australia -- Local repetition, metropolitan vacuum -- The local knowledge that repetition makes -- Inclusion : at the expense of collective concern? -- Problems of steering & scale : from individuals to the centre -- Changing a place : prognosis to prescription -- Critical potential : urban planning as democracy -- Appendix a: A checklist for democratic planning: knowing and steering -- Appendix b: A chronology of victorian planning -- Bibliography -- Index.

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