1. Urbanisation and development : policy lessons from the BRICS' experience / Gordon McGranahan and George Martine -- 2. Brazil's negligent urban transition and its legacy of divided cities / George Martine and Gordon McGranahan -- 3. China's radical urbanisation and brining capital and labour together step by step / Gordon McGranahan ... [and three others] -- 4. Russia's planned urbanisation and misplaced urban development / Charles Becker, S. Joshua Mendelsohn and Kseniya Benderskaya -- 5. South Africa's tortured urbanisation and the complications of reconstruction / Ivan Turok -- 6. India's sluggish urbanisation and its exclusionary development / Amitabh Kundu -- 7. Could a more positive approach to urbanisation in the BRICS have facilitated both economic growth and social inclusion? / Gordon McGranahan, Ivan Turok and George Martine