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Modern society has been guided with the ability of human reason and scientific technologies derived from the enlightenment ideology. But, unlike the expectations that we have had, the history has proven that the outcomes are very disappointing, as demonstrated by wars, holocaust, poverty, housing, environmental degradation, traffic problems, racial discrimination, gender problem, mass culture and so on. Such antagonistic hash problems with which we have been confronted are in large part caused by modernist planning, in which instrumental rationality is embedded as a guiding principle. Then, instrumental rationality is responsible for the unfolding problems in modern societies. Both postmodernist planning and communicative planning have been suggested as alternative ways to overcome the hardships. However, both of the theoretical prescriptions do not appear to provide adequate planning thoughts. The former is captured in a relativistic trap, whereas the latter far leans toward the idealistic prerequisites, which are not compatible with reality. Then, it is rather concluded that we still wait for the emergence of a more promising theoretical prescription.