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The Production of Desirous Space: Mere Fantasies of the Utopian City?University of Auckland, New Zealand, m.gunder{at}auckland.ac.nz The Lacanian perspective argues that planning, in its discourses and practices, is inherently ideological and the visions and ideals shaping the fantasies of the future city are often reflective of the homogenic desires of conflicting, but dominant, privileged minorities. Here the democratic process fails because the issues of contention are pre-shaped and technically determined and the rationality deployed only allows a limited range of sensible, i.e. pre-framed, dreams of what constitutes the good city. This article draws on both Lacan and Lefebvre to explore the dichotomy between seeking a common harmony of social vision while at the same time avoiding any exclusion of cultural and related difference in lived space.
Key Words: agonism ethics ideology Lacan Lefebvre
Planning Theory, Vol. 4, No. 2,
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