The second edition of this very successful volume examines the current state of planning theory and the new directions it has taken in recent years. * Examines the current state of planning theory and the new directions it has taken in recent years. * Draws on a wide range of authors who address planning history, arguments for and against planning, competing planning styles, planning ethics, the public interest, and considerations of race and gender. * Theoretical perspectives include political economy, postmodernism, communicative rationality, and feminism. * Readings new to this edition examine themes emerging in planning theory, including a critique of the modernist roots of centralized planning, a reemphasis on space in planning, and a discussion of the difficulty of sustainable development. * Features new case studies of planning success and failure in both the United States and the United Kingdom. * Contains thirteen wholly new readings.