01 July 2021

plaNext–Next Generation Planning is an international peer-reviewed open access e-journal. The young academics network of AESOP founded plaNext to provide prospective authors with an opportunity to engage their ideas in international planning debates as well as to make their research available to the wider planning audience.

• Introduction: Planning theories from 'southern turn' to 'deeply rooted/situated in the South/context'
• Generative pedagogies from and for the social production of habitat
• Rooting metropolitan planning in critical theory and participatory practices
• A Lacanian understanding of the southern planning theorists' identification under the hegemony of western philosophy
• Inclusion in urban environmental governance of small and intermediary cities of the global South
• Legacies of mistrust
• Infrastructural insurgency
• Retrofitting, repurposing and re-placing
• Housing systems in the Global South
• Gentrifying the Brazilian city?