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The Promise of Planning explores the experience of planning internationally since the global financial crisis, focusing on South Africa.

The book is a response to a decade-plus in which state-led planning has re-emerged as a putative means for achieving developmental goals (such as the New Urban Agenda), and where planning in South Africa has consolidated in terms of its legal and policy basis.

The book provides a careful analytical account of planning in South Africa and how and why its promises have been difficult to achieve.

It will be a resource for planners, students, and faculty interested in international planning debates and the South African case.

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