Abstract
In our volume, we seek to do justice to the plasticity of the notion of planning. In order to historicize planning, our definition is necessarily broad.
The contributions to this work highlight and explain the economic, social, and intellectual aspects of planning and approaches to planning and how these have played out across time and space. Of course, this diversity of emphasis is the outcome of the variety of geographical and chronological contexts in which ideas about planning were formulated and implemented.
The aim of our volume is to show that the Cold War was also a time of active planning at national and international levels. Our collection will show that these two models and practices of planning should be studied together.