ABSTRACT
In the fall of 1985, Patsy Healey of the University of Newcastle and Klaus Kunzmann of the University of Dortmund sat in a restaurant in Atlanta, USA, discussing the potential for a new pan-European affiliation of urban planning schools. Unbeknownst to them, similar conversations about the value of learned societies for planning were taking place that fall in Brazil; others had recently concluded in France. These conversations were to lead to a quantum leap in communication among urban planning educators worldwide. Today, the Planning Schools Movement has the potential to facilitate growth and maturation of scholarship in urban planning in ways that could not have been imagined 20 years ago. This volume is a significant step in that movement.
