ABSTRACT
cities, and the question of what constitutes ‘good city’ planning. Michael Leaf comments on the complexity of John’s recent thinking about the ‘urban superorganism’ in the context of Asian cities. Roger Keil discusses the generalised pattern of post-suburbanisation and the need to rethink the concepts of urban fields and suburbs. Ute Lehrer discusses the intensity of high-density residential building in Toronto and the incursions it makes on both the physical reality and cultural meaning of urban public space. Saskia Sassen engages with John’s ideas of the post-urban landscape and reflects on the massive build-up and privatisation of urban space occurring in global cityregions. Matti Siemiatycki shows how urban entrepreneurialism through transactive planning methods in Toronto has succeeded in enabling sustainable and socially inclusive planning of the city’s waterfront. Mike Douglass draws on John’s concept of the Good City to consider the grassroots mobilisation and progressive governance movements emerging in some Asian cities. And Hemalata Dandekar looks at how planners in Mumbai have attempted to envision the city’s role in global and regional economic networks and to forge public-private partnerships to achieve shared purpose with poorer communities living near targeted development sites.
