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Manuscripts should be double spaced, with ample margins. Please prepare two versions of your submission – one full, one anonymised - to allow the editor to send the paper for review without revealing your identity. You are also expected to provide a separate title page file that contains the author(s) name(s), institutions and affiliations. The full contact details of the author who will check proofs and receive correspondence and offprints will be required.

Tables and captions to illustrations. Tables must be typed on separate sheets and not included as part of the text. The captions to illustrations should be gathered together and also typed out on a separate sheet. Tables and figures should be numbered by Arabic numerals. The approximate position of tables and figures should be indicated in the manuscript. Captions should include keys to symbols.

Figures. Artwork must be submitted in suitable condition for publication. Any copyright permissions for use of figures should be cleared by the author when the manuscript is first submitted. The publishers are not responsible for obtaining copyright clearance.

References. These should be indicated in the typescript by giving the author's name and the year of publication, as follows: Parsons (1994) or (Parsons, 1994). If several papers by the same author and from the same year are cited, a, b, c, etc. should be put after the year of publication. The references should be listed in full at the end of the paper in the following standard form:

Clarence Stein's determination to reform housing and planning policy was rooted in his early education (Parsons, 1994)

Lang, J. (1994) Urban Design: The American Experience (New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold).

Parsons, K. C. (1994) Collaborative genius: the Regional Planning Association of America, Journal of the American Planning Association, 60 (4), pp. 462-482.

Faludi, A. & De Ruijter, P. (1985) No match for the present crisis? The theoretical and institutional framework for Dutch planning, in: A. K. Dutt & F. J. Costa (Eds) Public Planning in The Netherlands (New York, Oxford University Press).

Titles of journals should not be abbreviated.

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