For a dialectic of planning pasts and futures: Theoretical courses and recourses in conversation with Patsy Healey

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Planning theory has done much, during the last decade or so, to broaden and enrich its own geographies: thanks to the engagements with critical urban studies and post-colonial theory, planning theorists have problematised the disciplinary insistence on certain modernist ideas and universalist approaches. Much less has been done to problematise the relation of planning with time—its ontology of action. This short essay takes step from my personal experience of editing a special issue of plaNext with Patsy Healey to argue for a different—dialectic, open, experimental—engagement of planning theory/practice with time, an endeavour that seems perfectly fit for a journal like plaNext turning 10 years old.

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2025-07-04

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Simone Tulumello, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, University of Lisbon

Simone Tulumello is associate research professor in Human Geography at the institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. His research, at the intersection with critical urban studies, political economy and spatial planning, explores the multi-scalar dimensions of urbanisation across several topic – housing, violence, imaginaries, uneven development.

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