Penny Gurstein is a professor and former director of the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia. She is the co-editor of Learning Civil Societies: Shifting Contexts for Democratic Planning and Governance. Tom Hutton is a professor at the Centre for Human Settlements in the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia. His most recent book is Cities and the Cultural Economy.Contributors: Leonora C. Angeles, Alexander Y. Bigazzi, Stephanie E. Chang, Nathan J. Edelson, Lisi Feng, Lawrence D. Frank, John Friedmann, Howard Grant, Larissa Grant, Jordi Honey-Rosés, Karla Kloepper, Michael Leaf, Timothy L. McDaniels, Jennie Moore, William E. Rees, Leonie Sandercock, Jemma Scoble, Maged Senbel, Olga Shcherbyna, Leona Sparrow, Mark Stevens, Jeremy Stone, Cornelia Sussmann, Andy Yan, Lily Yumagulova

• Prologue: Twenty-One Suburbs in Search of a City: A View of the Vancouver Metropolitan Area / John Friedmann Introduction / Tom Hutton and Penny GursteinPart 1: Situating Vancouver in Space and Time1 Planning since Time Immemorial: Musqueam Perspectives / Howard Grant, Leona Sparrow, Larissa Grant, and Jemma Scoble2 City on the Edge: Vancouver and Circuits of Capital, Control, and Culture / Tom HuttonPart 2: Sustainability and Resilience in Metro Vancouver's Urban Systems3 Vancouver's Sustainability Gap and Lessons from the Southeast False Creek Model Sustainable Community / Jennie Moore, Cornelia Sussmann, and William E. Rees4 Vancouverism and Sustainable Urban Design: Past Its Prime and Needing to Evolve / Maged Senbel and Mark Stevens5 Transportation: Vancouver the City and Vancouver the Region / Lawrence D. Frank and Alexander Y. Bigazzi6 Dynamics and Governance of Risk in Metro Vancouver / Stephanie E. Chang, Timothy L. McDaniels, Lily Yumagulova, and Mark Stevens7 The Sustainability Gap for Water Management in the Vancouver Region / Jordi Honey-RosésPart 3: A People-Centred Approach to Planning and Development in Vancouver8 Beyond the Downtown Eastside: A Regional Perspective on Affordability, Displacement, and Social Justice / Nathan J. Edelson, Penny Gurstein, Karla Kloepper, and Jeremy T. Stone9 Beyond the Dreams of Avarice? The Past, Present, and Future of Housing in Vancouver's Planning Legacy / Penny Gurstein and Andy Yan10 Canada's Cosmopolis on the Coast: How Immigration Has Shaped and Reshaped Vancouver / Lisi Feng and Michael Leaf11 Building Civic Capacity in the Shadow of Neoliberalism: Patterns and Challenges in Metro Vancouver's Immigrant Social Integration / Leonora C. Angeles and Olga ShcherbynaEpilogue: Beyond Cosmopolis: Dreaming Coexistence as Indigenous Justice / Leonie SandercockIndex