Abstract

‘Materiality is not mere pretext for our exercise of mental pleasures (Jameson 2003)’ (p.4). What is materiality then? In the 1960s politically left-wing activist planners denounced planning practice, seeing it as a technocratic, apolitical material determinism that only perpetuated the segregation of marginalized urban communities. They targeted hygienist methods to solve urban poverty, seen as a response to fixed categories, not actual people or contexts. They replaced it with a Marxist...

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