Planning theory, a ‘deconstructionist-turn’: Аre we there yet?

Abstract

Deconstruction’ is the attractive Derridean project, which he describes as ‘the opening of the future itself…’. Deconstruction destabilizes inherited concepts and traditions, towards ‘…what remains to be thought …[that]… cannot be thought within the present’. Interestingly, it has established an ‘awkward’ interaction with the city design and planning through architecture theory and practice. It has simultaneously flirted with planning theory in reflection to the institution: ‘dark side’ of practice and the design-process: the planning model (see Allmendigerand Gunder 2005). However, it remained on the periphery of the developed debate.