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In the debate on the transnational transfer of planning ideas, many authors refer to a basic interpretive scheme of diffusion/dissemination that acknowledges an "origin" (contextualization) and a "destination" of the travel (recontextualization), with a thick "trajectory" in between (de-contextualization). This article questions such a scheme, arguing that planning ideas cannot be viewed as facts or truth statements, least of all fixed things that can be moved about. Rather, they are myths. Drawing upon Roland Barthes' and Michel Foucault's visions of modern mythology, the article envisages the origin narrative of a planning idea as a mythological narrative that planners may use to refresh their own knowledge and traditions each and every time an idea is put into play. An example taken from a planning event in the Middle East illustrates the practical implications of such an approach.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART 1 Varieties of Regulation -- 1 The Documents of Re-Zoning: Planning Aspirations in New York City -- 2 Planning Deregulation, Material Impacts, and Everyday Practices: The Case of Permitted Development in England -- 3 Malleable Categorisation and the Regulatory Process: The Case of the Apple Flagship Store in Stockholm -- 4 Democratic Debate or Empty Ritual? The Planning Hearing for Edinburgh's New Concert Hall -- 5 Encounters with Materiality: Planning Regulation and Non-Participation in Australia -- PART 2 Practices of Regulation -- 6 Planners as Brokers and Translators. On Regulation and Discretionary Power -- 7 Artefacts in Dialogue: Regulatory Planning and the Search for Legitimacy -- 8 Creating Land through the Regulatory Process. The Case of Brownfield Land in England -- 9 Stepping Up to Meet the Challenge of a Zero Carbon Built Environment -- 10 Regulation and Water Management in the Milan Urban Region : The Seveso Creek Basin -- PART 3 Beyond Regulation -- 11 Intermediary Organisations and the Liquid Regulation of Urban Planning in England -- 12 Citizen Monitoring of Environmental Regulation in England: The Post-Consent Stage -- 13 Regulation by Design: The Case of Batignolles Park, Paris -- 14 When "The Sensor Gives Them a Voice": Representing Users through Data -- 15 Land Banking Regulation as Rhetorical Infrastructure: Planning as Translation in the Muncie Land Bank, Indiana -- On Practices, Institutions, Agency -- Contributor Biographies -- Index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Learning from Gulf Cities -- Section I. The Gulf as Transnational -- 1. Giving the Transnational a History: Gulf Cities across Time and Space -- 2. Problematizing a Regional Context: Representation in Arab and Gulf Cities -- 3. Mobilities of Urban Spectacle: Plans, Projects, and Investments in the Gulf and Beyond -- Section II. Assembling Hybrid Cities -- 4. A Gulf of Images: Photography and the Circulation of Spectacular Architecture -- 5. Planning for the Hybrid Gulf City -- 6. Planning from Within: NYU Abu Dhabi -- Section III. Urban Test Beds for Export -- 7. Gateway: Revisiting Dubai as a Port City -- 8. Exporting the Spaceship: The Connected Isolation of Masdar City -- 9. "Two Days to Shape the Future": A Saudi Arabian Node in the Transnational Circulation of Ideas about New Cities -- Section IV. Audacity, Work-Arounds, and Spatial Segmentation -- 10. Real Estate Speculation and Transnational Development in Dubai -- 11. Consuming Abu Dhabi -- 12. A Quest for Significance: Gulf Oil Monarchies' International Strategies and Their Urban Dimensions -- Conclusion: From Gulf Cities Onward -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Index