What is radical planning history?

The project of radical planning history offers a critical, positive response to these questions.Expanding and deepening existing heterodox approaches, it provides a comprehensive frameworkfor rethinking both planning ideologies and the epistemological foundations of the field, makingour research not only more politically engaged but also more intellectually vibrant. Radicalplanning history is ‘radical’ because (a) it prioritizes grassroots perspectives, pursuing ahistory-from-below approach, (b) it revisits planning’s foundational ideals, restoring the latentutopian surplus embedded in the discipline’s progressive roots, and (c) it calls for fundamental,paradigm-shifting changes in our analytical strategies if our research is to remain relevant tocontemporary urban struggles and conflicts.