Introduction / F. Javier Monclús and Manuel Guàrdia
History builds the town : on the uses of history in twentieth-century city planning / Michael Hebbert and Wolfgang Sonne
The cultural dimension of urban planning strategies : an historical perspective / Robert Freestone and Chris Gibson
Speak, culture! : culture in planning's past, present, and future / Greg Young
Capital cities and culture : evolution of twentieth-century capital city planning / David L.A. Gordon
The power of anticipation : itinerant images of metropolitan futures : Buenos Aires, 1900-1920 / Margarita Gutman
Words and history : controversies on urban heritage in Italy / Giorgio Piccinato
Urban destruction or preservation? : conservation movement and planning in twentieth-century Scandinavian capitals / Laura Kolbe
Planning the historic city : 1960s plans for Bath and York / John Pendelbury
Multiple exposures or new cultural values? : European historical centres and recent immigration fluxes / Alessandro Scarnato
New urbanism and planning history : back to the future / Christopher Silver
Branding the city of culture : the death of city planning? / Graeme Evans
International exhibitions and planning : hosting large-scale events as place promotion and as catalysts of urban regeneration / F. Javier Monclús
Contemporary urban spectacularisation / Lilian Vaz and Paula Berenstein Jacques
Culture, tradition and modernity in the Latin American city : some recent experiences / Roberto Segre
'Cities are fun!' : inventing and spreading the Baltimore model of cultural urbanism / Stephen V. Ward.