Keywords

• The paper deals with three main breaks in the field of urban planning: the breaking up with the idea of growth
• welfare and education. The author wanders if innovative ways in planning practice are effective or weâ€
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• d better reflect upon them more carefully. In such a perspective
• he suggests different moves
• such as focusing on emotional dimensions of planning discourses (self-reference
• cynicism
• unrealistic attitude) to find out that none of these seems adequate for a realistic and non-resigned action. More generally
• it is necessary to consider that
• more than ever
• planning is a matter of exception
• a matter of de-politicizing
• a matter of justtechnical procedures
• a matter of power and social exclusion. The true problem of global western societies is the chasm between universalism and differentialism
• as it works behind dilemmas on how to deal with socio-spatial issues in radically plural societies. Planners should dismiss a unitarian logic and â€
• œ
• think by differencesâ€
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• giving up with identity issues and focusing on conflicts
• interests and cultures in specific time-space contexts