This paper revisits the theoretical question of modernist planning with respect to the ever expanding neoliberalism into the economic, social and political practices of societies. Drawing on the theoretical abstracts of modernist planning, it argues that the prevalence of neoliberalism transforms the urban order to the postmodern city in which modernist planning does not provide an adequate thought to govern social and economic practices. On the limited capacity of modernist planning under the transformative neoliberal discursive production, it is suggested the modernist planning could be reconstructed to regulate the new emerging posrmodern economic and social processes in which diverse idiosyncratic interests contend, intensifying social exclusion and exploitation. The reconstruction project of modernist planning includes spousing the reformist goals, deliverative governance, inclusive democracy and subjectivist epistemology.

This paper revisits the theoretical question of modernist planning with respect to the ever expanding neoliberalism into the economic, social and political practices of societies. Drawing on the theoretical abstracts of modernist planning, it argues that the prevalence of neoliberalism transforms the urban order to the postmodern city in which modernist planning does not provide an adequate thought to govern social and economic practices. On the limited capacity of modernist planning under the transformative neoliberal discursive production, it is suggested the modernist planning could be reconstructed to regulate the new emerging posrmodern economic and social processes in which diverse idiosyncratic interests contend, intensifying social exclusion and exploitation. The reconstruction project of modernist planning includes spousing the reformist goals, deliverative governance, inclusive democracy and subjectivist epistemology.

modernist planning, neoliberalism, postmodern, epistemology, deliberative governance, inclusive democracy