This piece takes up Beauregard's (1989) challenge to view planning theory through the lens of postmodern critique. It is argued here that we need to broaden the planning theory literature to include the works of feminists and people of color who are addressing the condition of postmodernity in constructive and progressive ways, within a revised radical democratic tradition.
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