1 Beyond the Market vs. Planning Dichotomy: Understanding Privatisation and its Reverse in U.S. Cities 1 Amir Hefetz Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning Technion Institute Haifa, Israel ah78@tx.technion.ac.il Mildred Warner Dept of City and Regional Planning Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 mew15@cornell.edu 607-255-6816 607-255-1971 fax This is a preprint of an article accepted for publication in Local Government Studies, 2007 Vol 33 (4). 1 Acknowledgements Amir Hefetz is a researcher at Technion Institute in Haifa, Israel and Mildred Warner is an Associate Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, USA. This paper was previously presented at the American Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference in 2005 and an international workshop on privatization in Barcelona, Spain June 2006. Funding for this research was provided in part by the National Research Initiative of the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Grant # NYC-121524.