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The conjunctures of technological development, persistent wars, and economic commutation is increasingly outpacing the circulation of humanistic care and various social deconstructions, driving me to the position of post-colonialism and making up a notion that the discipline of urban planning needs to be honest with itself. How far can civic rights and spatial justice be achieved in cities? Urban planning alone simply cannot generate an intact, loyal and absolute space of safety and justice. The site will fade away, the function will change and the way people look at things will be more difficult to subvert. Even a city can be obliterated altogether. There is an invisible hand that makes them as pale as the original slogan of urban planning. This article would like to critique the situation that planning still mostly is play a puppet show rather than a sustainable argument for balanced and transformable interests by deploying Edward W. Soja's spatial justice theory, post-structuralism, and Ananya Roy's work of the relationship between poverty and urban space. On this basis, deploying media theory, the article articulates that planning should valorize the metaphorical and communication function instantiated in the concrete lived experience. Not only it should take root at the grassroots and provide the soil for a profound transformation from top-down to bottom-up, but also to contends with the cult of technology and nurture a union of the character of spaces and the spontaneity of grassroots. In this endeavor, the future space justice should make people retain their bravery.
| Keywords | space justice;metaphor;grassroots;union |
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| Best Congress Paper Award | Yes |
