Shaken, shrinking, hot, impoverished and informal: Emerging research agendas in planning Hilda Blanco a,1, * , Marina Alberti a,1 a Department of Urban Design and Planning, Box 355740, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-5740, USA Robert Olshansky b,2 , Stephanie Chang c,2 b Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 611 Taft Drive, Champaign, IL 61829, USA c School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia, 242-1933 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada Stephen M. Wheeler d,3 , John Randolph e,3 , James B. London f,3 d Landscape Architecture Program, Department of Environmental Design, University of California at Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616, USA e Department of Urban Affairs & Planning, Virginia Tech, 201-C Architecture Annex (0113), Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA f College of Architecture, Art, and Humanities, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA Justin B. Hollander g,4 , Karina M. Pallagst h,4 , Terry Schwarz i,4 , Frank J. Popper j,4 g Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning Department, Tufts University, 97 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA 02155, USA h Center for Global Metropolitan Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 316 Wurster Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1870 USA i Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, Kent State University, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, 820 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115 USA j Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University, 33 Livingston Avenue, Room 535, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1958, USA Susan Parnell k,5 , Edgar Pieterse l,5 , Vanessa Watson m,5 k Environmental and Geographical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa l African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa m School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa www.elsevier.com/locate/pplann Progress in Planning 72 (2009) 195–250 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 213 821 2431; fax: +1 213 740 0373. E-mail addresses: hblanco@u.washington.edu, hblanco@usc.edu (H. Blanco), malberti@u.washington.edu (M. Alberti), robo@illinois.edu (R. Olshansky), sechang@interchange.ubc.ca (S. Chang), smwheeler@ucdavis.edu (S. M. Wheeler), energy@vt.edu (J. Randolph), london1@clemson.edu (J. B. London), justin.hollander@tufts.edu (J. B. Hollander), pallagst@berkeley.edu (K. M. Pallagst), tschwarz@kent.edu (T. Schwarz), fpopper@rci.rutgers.edu (F. J. Popper), susan.parnell@uct.c.za (S. Parnell), edgar.pieterse@uct.ac.za (E. Pieterse), vanessa.watson@uct.ac.za (V. Watson). 1 Guest Editors, authors of Chapter 1. 2 Authors of Chapter 2. 3 Authors of Chapter 3. 4 Authors of Chapter 4. 5 Authors of Chapter 5. 0305-9006/$ – see front matter # 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.progress.2009.09.001