Crossing borders: International exchange and planning practices
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PLTsppltPlanning Theory1473-09521741-3052SAGE PublicationsSage UK: London, England10.1177/147309521143261710.1177_1473095211432617Book reviewCrossing borders: International exchange and planning practicesWatsonVanessaUniversity of Cape Town, South Africa82012113328330HealeyPatsyUptonRobert (Eds) Crossing borders: International exchange and planning practices, London and New York: Routledge, 2010. pp. US$155.00/GB£95.00 (hbk). ISBN 978 0 415 55846 4. US$62.95/GB£34.99 (pbk). ISBN 978 0 415 55847 1© The Author(s) 20122012SAGE PublicationsThis edited collection is part of a growing number of works which consider how planning activity takes place in various parts of the world and how these different forms of planning came into being. Given that most planning scholarship still originates in, and reflects on, a relatively small part of the globe, this geographical broadening of the scope of planning studies is to be welcomed. It follows on recent texts such as Nasr and Volait’s Urbanism Imported or Exported? (2003), Sanyal’s Comparative Planning Cultures (2005) and Friedmann’s Globalization and the Emerging Culture of Planning (2005) but with a specific focus in this book on how mobile planning ideas interact with local, or place-specific, material and intellectual milieu to create unique expressions of planning activity.The introductory chapter by Patsy Healey is a very useful overview both of the chapters in the book and of thinking about planning