Introduction: A New Context for Planning? / Louis Albrechts and Seymour J. Mandelbaum -- Communicative Action and the Network Society: A Pragmatic Marriage? / Niraj Verma and HaeRan Shin -- Planning and the Network City: Discursive Correspondences / Robert A. Beauregard -- Escaping the Prison of "the Present Place": Can We Plan the Future of Localities in the Context of a Network Society? / Dowell Myers -- The Discourse Network: A Way of Understanding Policy Formation, Stability, and Change in the Networked Polity / Nicholas Low -- Commentary: Networks and Planning Thought / Judith E. Innes -- Cities and Transport: Exploring the Need for New Planning Approaches / Luca Bertolini -- Networking for Trans-National "Missing Links": Tracing the Political Success of European High-Speed Rail in the 1990s / Deike Peters -- Strategies for Networked Cities / Stephen Graham -- The "Network City": A New Old Way of Thinking Cities in the ICT Age / Paul Drewe -- Commentary: Challenging the "Old" Urban Planning Paradigm: the Network Approach / Gabriel Dupuy -- Planning as Persuasive Storytelling in the Context of "the Network Society" / James A. Throgmorton -- Network Complexity and the Imaginative Power of Strategic Spatial Planning / Patsy Healey -- Commentary: Imagining Urban Transformation / Leonie Sandercock -- Why Liberal Planning Cannot Manage the Network Society: Lessons from Community Action / Howell S. Baum -- ICT-Enforced Community Networks for Sustainable Development and Social Inclusion / Klaus Frey -- Recovery from Disasters: Challenges for Low-Income Communities in the Americas / William J. Siembieda -- The Multicultural City in the Age of Networks / Xavier de Souza Briggs -- Commentary: Local Networks and Capital Building / Susan S. Fainstein -- The Global Emergence of Private Planning and Governance / Chris Webster and Shin Lee -- Inter-Agency Transport Planning: Cooperation in a Loose Policy Network / Tore Sager and Inger-Anne Ravlum -- Collaborative Planning, Commitment, and Trust. Dealing with Uncertainty in Networks / Ronald G.H. van Ark and Jurian Edelenbos -- Reconnecting Space, Place, and Institutions: Inquiring into "Local" Governance Capacity in Urban and Regional Research / Enrico Gualini -- Commentary: Governance Capacity, Policy Networks, and Territorial Specificities / Patsy Healey.