Fritz W. Wagner is co-Director of the Northwest Center for Livable Communities, Research Professor in the Department of Urban Design and Planning, and former Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington. Dr. Wagner also taught at the University of New Orleans, where he served as Director and founding Dean of the College of Urban and Public Affairs for twenty years. Riad G. Mahayni is a Professor Emeritus of Community and Regional Planning at Iowa State University and former Chair of the Department. He previously taught at the University of Rhode Island, where he chaired its Urban Affairs Program. Dr. Mahayni worked as the Technical Coordinator of the Makkah (Mecca) Region Planning and Development Project, Saudi Arabia, with Dar Al Handasah Consultants. Andreas G. Piller is a Master of Planning graduate at the University of Washington focusing on land use and transportation. He has a B.A. in Urban Planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has worked in the Transportation Department at the City of Bellevue, Washington since 2011.

’Wagner and his colleagues have developed an interesting and insightful book on the important topic of community transformation. Their focus on healthy, livable and sustainable communities represents an important contribution to the field. Elected officials, university researchers and community leaders can draw upon this work for inspiration and insight.’ Raymond J. Burby, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

• 1: Introduction; 2: Berlin; 3: Marseille; 4: Liverpool Story; 5: The Evolution of City-Wide Master Plans in the Context of Urban Shrinkage; 6: Houston; 7: The Transformation of a Mid-Sized Metropolitan Area in Canada; 8: Rio de Janeiro; 9: In the Wake of Katrina; 10: Distressed City; 11: “Green, Global, and Connected”; 12: A Transformational Path for Cape Town, South Africa; 13: Twilight in Delhi; 14: Planning the Recovery; 15: Rapid Urbanization and Healthy Cities and Healthy Villages Programs in the Eastern Mediterranean; 16: Integrated Urban-Rural Planning in China; 17: Visions of New Urban-Rural Relations and Alternative Definitions of Well-Being in Rapidly Urbanizing China; 18: City Life in Modernizing Societies; 19: Best Practice Methods for Cities; 20: Conclusions and Lessons Learned

Fritz W. Wagner is co-Director of the Northwest Center for Livable Communities, Research Professor in the Department of Urban Design and Planning, and former Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington. Dr. Wagner also taught at the University of New Orleans, where he served as Director and founding Dean of the College of Urban and Public Affairs for twenty years. Riad G. Mahayni is a Professor Emeritus of Community and Regional Planning at Iowa State University and former Chair of the Department. He previously taught at the University of Rhode Island, where he chaired its Urban Affairs Program. Dr. Mahayni worked as the Technical Coordinator of the Makkah (Mecca) Region Planning and Development Project, Saudi Arabia, with Dar Al Handasah Consultants. Andreas G. Piller is a Master of Planning graduate at the University of Washington focusing on land use and transportation. He has a B.A. in Urban Planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has worked in the Transportation Department at the City of Bellevue, Washington since 2011.

’Wagner and his colleagues have developed an interesting and insightful book on the important topic of community transformation. Their focus on healthy, livable and sustainable communities represents an important contribution to the field. Elected officials, university researchers and community leaders can draw upon this work for inspiration and insight.’ Raymond J. Burby, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

• 1: Introduction; 2: Berlin; 3: Marseille; 4: Liverpool Story; 5: The Evolution of City-Wide Master Plans in the Context of Urban Shrinkage; 6: Houston; 7: The Transformation of a Mid-Sized Metropolitan Area in Canada; 8: Rio de Janeiro; 9: In the Wake of Katrina; 10: Distressed City; 11: “Green, Global, and Connected”; 12: A Transformational Path for Cape Town, South Africa; 13: Twilight in Delhi; 14: Planning the Recovery; 15: Rapid Urbanization and Healthy Cities and Healthy Villages Programs in the Eastern Mediterranean; 16: Integrated Urban-Rural Planning in China; 17: Visions of New Urban-Rural Relations and Alternative Definitions of Well-Being in Rapidly Urbanizing China; 18: City Life in Modernizing Societies; 19: Best Practice Methods for Cities; 20: Conclusions and Lessons Learned