LEONIE SANDERCOCK is Professor of Urban Planning and Social Policy in the School of Community and Regional Planning at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Congratulations to Leonie Sandercock on being awarded the 2005 Dale Prize, awarded each year by the Department of Urban & Regional Planning at California State Polytechnic University for excellence in a common field of urban and regional planning.

• Part One Looking Back: Modernist Planning and its Discontents; Modernist Cities and Planning; Rewriting Planning History; Who Knows? -Exploring Planning's Knowledges. Part Two Looking Forward: Mongrel Cities and the 21st Century Multicultural project; Mongrel Cities - How Can We Live Together?; Home, Nation and Stranger - Fear in the City; There is No Hiding Place - Integrating Immigrants. Part Three Towards a New Planning Imagination: Transfomative Planning Practices; How and Why Cities Change; The Power of Story Planning; City Songlines.