1. Big Projects in a Time of Uncertainty: Facing the Future in a Contemporary Urban Development -- 2. Five Images of a Suburb: Competing Perspectives on the Economy, Environment, and Family Life -- 3. Visual Rhetorics in Growth Debates: Sydney's Future as a Los Angeles, Toronto, or Canberra -- 4. Formal Planning Processes: The Privileged Language of Professional Planning -- 5. Hard and Soft Privatization: Unequal Impacts of Government Withdrawal -- 6. Urban Development and the Power of Ideas