Breaking Out of the Box: Ingredients for a More Radical Planning

A lot of traditional planning is about maintaining the existing social order rather than challenging and transforming it, and it fails to capture the dynamics and tensions of relations coexisting in particular places. As a result, planning faces major ontological and epistemological challenges. The aim of the paper is to reflect on what can be done to revive planning as a critical theory and praxis. For this reason, the paper first deals with the logic and aims of statutory planning and some critiques and introduces the contours of a more radical planning.