ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the notion of 'feral capitalism' and the implications of this for the urban planning project at the development/property interface. Issues of land and property development, the relations between planning and markets and the implementation impacts of planning instruments all take place within what D. Harvey describes as 'feral capitalism'. It turns to the temporal and spatial dimensions of the land question as a key consideration for understanding land development processes, spatial dynamics and their speed of impact on place qualities. The chapter looks to the seeds of urban change and the role of the institutional lens into how partnerships between actors form, and how spatial strategies connect to wider policy cultures within the context of urban growth and development, particularly at the local scale. At the heart of these urban planning and sustainability tensions within wild cities is the land question. Planning wild cities is a transformative planning agenda.
