ABSTRACT
Since Volume 2 of Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning went to press, there has been continued progress towards networking and interchange of planning academics globally. Volume 1 of Dialogues has been very well received, with reviews in a large number of journals. Reviewers have described it as: “a groundbreaking contribution to planning education” (Visser 2005: 369), “of exceptional quality” (Filion 2006: 313), “a ‘must’ for the shelf of every serious planning library” (Plaut 2006: 166), “a milestone in planning scholarship” (Angel 2007: 354), “providing, in a single source, scholarly work that would be otherwise unattainable on so widespread a basis” (Cusack 2006: 564). Coaffee recognizes the great potential of this project: “This book, and its future editions, is very clearly one aspect of a sustained attempt to build a global planning movement that can develop transnational synergy and create arenas of comparative and compatible learning” (2006: 105). For Costa (2006: 482) the book emphasized “the potential of planning as a means to achieve socio-economic justice.” A very encouraging event is that Volume 1 has been translated into Portugese as a special edition of the journal Cadernos Instituto de Planejamento Urbano e Regional by our Brazilian colleagues, led by Pedro Abramo under the auspices of ANPUR.
